Tech PayPal IPN question (more than 1 store)

[Publisher Bucks]

Those of you that currently have more than one site/store that uses PayPal for payments, how do you handle the IPN stuff?

Do you have a single IPN that sends transaction data to your sales database(s) or, do you give each individual site/store its own individual IPN?

Are there any advantages / disadvantages to using single vs. multiple IPN files to record the sales data flow?

Any advice you may be able to offer would be greatly appreciated

[blackmonsters]

Originally Posted by Publisher Bucks

Those of you that currently have more than one site/store that uses PayPal for payments, how do you handle the IPN stuff?

Do you have a single IPN that sends transaction data to your sales database(s) or, do you give each individual site/store its own individual IPN?

Are there any advantages / disadvantages to using single vs. multiple IPN files to record the sales data flow?

Any advice you may be able to offer would be greatly appreciated

MY solution was to have one central domain for the IPN and use the payment form parameters to include the site that it belonged to.
Each domain had it's own email address. So your paypal account can have multiple email addresses and that's how can you track it in your stats that you create in your sales script.

You need someone to write your sales script to parse out the different domains and products.

I haven't used it in years so you need to verify how it works now. It could have changed.

[Publisher Bucks]

Thanks, that’s what I’m considering doing, a single central domain and just have it all sorted in SQL prior to insertion into the database.