simplest way to confirm payment via PayPal?

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Published on 2010-03-08T18:35:42Z Indexed on 2010/03/08 18:36 UTC
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Hi - what's the best way to simply get feedback from PayPal to confirm that your customer paid? It looks as if the answer is IPN - if so, my followup question is, can I enable IPN for only specific buttons? I don't want PayPal pinging my IPN listener for purchases that don't require any kind of IPN integration.

I'm all about Agile and YAGNI, I don't want to do ANYTHING unnecessary.

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