I have a site that accepts payments for registering for an event an also sells t-shirts for the event. http://warerally.com/

When a member fills out the registration form he is then taken to PayPal. At that moment an email is sent to the treasurer that a registration form was completed and the amount, etc. However, if the member does not complete the PayPal transaction then, of course, they are not yet registered. My notification email states to the treasurer that they must also receive confirmation from PayPal that the payment was actually made.

Is there some way to delay sending the email notification until after the PayPal transaction is complete? That would avoid any confusion.

Thanks

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

There's no easy way in the actual form builder to do this. I would think you could use a Paypal IPN to set the user as paid in a mysql database but I don't think the Paypal and mysql option work together in the formbuilder yet because of a bug. I guess the easiest thing to do would be to create a Paypal button and place that on your site and then setup your Paypal account to send users back to your registration form after payment.

What you could do is, use the confirm options to redirect to another URL, providing this process is done after the data has been saved to the mysql database, from that redirect you could have a php script that checks the database to see if there is a transaction ID from paypal added and if so, email out details to the user.

What you want to happen requires integration of a PayPal shopping cart. (Express Checkout). That won't happen with a simple web form. Once the form has done its job... (Redirected your client to Paypal and sent you the results of the form) The form has essentially finished and shut down waiting for the next use.
You need a shopping cart to engage Express checkout and get payment results from Paypal. I'm not sure if CC shopping cart creator can handle just one item and all the information you need from the registrant. You'd need to experiment... Or spend a grand or so on Acrobat that has all that built into it!
I don't know what volume of registrations you are planning but if you have a merchant account with Paypal, they can probably set up up with what you need but they expect money to do it. If you are thinking of a hundred or less, I'd stay with waiting on Paypal's email before confirming the booking. They shouldn't be more than 5 or 10 minutes apart.

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