My problem is that billing agreements are successfully executed even if the setup fee is not paid. Looking at the logs, the IPN event notifiying that the setup fee failed and the agreement is cancelled typically takes 5-10 minutes to arrive, which is an insane amount of delay.
I am using the official PayPal PHP SDK at https://github.com/paypal/PayPal-PHP-SDK. It was deprecated a month ago, but its replacement is marked "not ready for production".
Billing plan details, with the intent to charge a $29.99/yr subscription. Setup fee is used to guarantee initial payment.
Per the 2 step process documented in https://paypal.github.io/PayPal-PHP-SDK/sample/, with the wrapping try/catch blocks removed for legibility:
// Step 1: https://paypal.github.io/PayPal-PHP-SDK/sample/doc/billing/CreateBillingAgreementWithPayPal.html
use PayPal\Api\Agreement;
use PayPal\Api\MerchantPreferences;
use PayPal\Api\Payer;
use PayPal\Api\Plan;
/**
* @var \PayPal\Rest\ApiContext $apiContext
*/
$plan = Plan::get('EXAMPLE-PLAN-ID', $apiContext);
$agreement = new Agreement();
date_default_timezone_set('America/Los_Angeles');
$agreement->setName($plan->getName())
->setDescription($plan->getDescription())
// I'm not sure why +1 hour is used here, but that's how it is in the codebase.
->setStartDate(date('c', strtotime("+1 hour", time())));
$agreement->setPlan($plan);
/**
*
{-code-2}
I'm at a loss for what I'm doing wrong that would cause the billing agreement to execute even without the setup fee being paid. Help would be appreciated!
Here's how to create the Plan that was used:
{-code-3}
The replacement SDK is https://github.com/paypal/Checkout-PHP-SDK , which does not include any billing agreement or subscription use cases. For use cases not covered by that SDK , you should use a direct HTTPS integration. This is documented here: https://developer.paypal.com/docs/api/rest-sdks/
The code you are trying to use is for an obsolete SDK for an obsolete API (old version of billing agreements, not compatible with new subscriptions).
Here is the API you should integrate, with no SDK: https://developer.paypal.com/docs/subscriptions/
Turns out an exception is not supposed to be thrown for usual agreement execution. To check whether the setup was paid, check the value of$agreement->getState()
after executing the agreement.
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