IPN vs PDT in Paypal

Question

I\'m having some trouble choosing between PayPal\'s Instant Payment Notification (IPN) and Payment Data Transfer (PDT).

Basically, users buy a one-off product on my

Answer 1

This is an old question, but my simple answer would be - Why not use both PDT and IPN? They will work fine for card transactions.

PDT can provide the immediate transaction status to your website, where you can quickly check the payment success or failure status and provide the user with appropriate message.

Meanwhile, you can await the full verification from IPN in the background. Once received, you can use this to further update your DB and process the order.

You can follow this step-by-step guide which I found to be very clear and helpful - and it's still valid in 2018.

https://www.codexworld.com/paypal-standard-payment-gateway-integration-php/