E-Junkie "Overrides"

[chriscoyier]

You know in the general preferences area of E-Junkie you can specify a "Thank You" page URL? This is where customers get re-directed after a payment. You can set up a re-direct URL just like this from within PayPal, but the one we set up in E-Junkie OVERRIDES this.



I am curious what else E-Junkie overrides. I have IPN set up inside PayPal, so that I can generate my own order confirmation emails, only it completely doesn't work. I am wondering if E-Junkie overrides this as well, and gets the IPN notification to it's own script instead of the one I set up.



Is PayPal IPN how E-Junkie gathers information on our transactions? Like buyer name and address and that stuff?



I am trying to use PayPal IPN so that I can generate my own order confirmation emails, because E-Junkie really doesn't do that. Now I'm afraid I can't use PayPal to do it either, if E-Junkie is "stealing" the IPN event also. It's got me between a rock and hard place as far as generating order confirmation emails.

[E-junkie_Chef]

Yes, E-junkie has to override the IPN URL and Return URL to work :)



However, you can use out inegration feature to get notified for each item in a transaction (we send all IPN variables, all order data with each notification call) and use it to generate a notification email per transaction.



In January, we will let you specify a URL where we'll notify you once for each transaction. By January end we'll also let you switch between a single email per order or multiple emails (like it's now).

[chriscoyier]

OK. I'll have to watch closely for this new feature, as it will be of GREAT help me!



Right now my solution to get order confirmation to my client is to wade through those "variable dump" looking emails, copy and paste out the pertinent info, and send a new email to the client. Very time consuming.

[mathguy]

Is this feature implemented? I'm about to go live and most of my orders will be multiples. I can't believe that my customers are going to get multiple emails for each item!

[E-junkie_Guru]

Consolidated thank-you emails are not yet live, but are under development and scheduled for roll out before the end of this year. Formal announcement of any new features going live would be posted to our Service Status and Updates forum here:

http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/forum/6

...and if you're into RSS, we have a feed of updates to that forum available for your RSS reader here:

http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/xml/rss-forum-6.xml