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Hi Everyone,

I created Buy Now button with paypal using sandbox (for testing purpose) and I got succeeded, cash is flowing properly from buyer account to seller account. Now my question is, who will take care of shipment of product. I mean I should manually ship/deliver those products or Paypal will take care of it.

Kindly, suggest.

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Short answer for : the Buy Now button only handles payment; fulfillment (packing, shipping or handing over a digital item) is your responsibility or that of a fulfillment partner. The important follow-up is how you are notified and how to automate order processing so you don't have to "keep checking" PayPal manually.

Sandbox vs live: sandbox behavior can hide or simulate email notifications, so a missing inbox message during tests is normal. Use the sandbox dashboard and the IPN simulator to test notifications before going live (Sandbox tools, IPN simulator).

Recommended, reliable approach (server-side)

  • Enable Instant Payment Notification (IPN) and run an IPN listener on your server. See PayPal IPN docs.
  • On receipt, verify the message with PayPal (POST back with cmd=_notify-validate), then:
    • confirm payment_status is Completed,
    • confirm receiver_email is your account,
    • confirm mc_gross / mc_currency match the order,
    • check txn_id has not been processed already.
  • Only then mark the order fulfilled and trigger packing/shipping workflows or notify a 3rd-party shipper.

Alternatives and tips

  • PDT (Payment Data Transfer) can show order details on the return page but is unreliable if the buyer closes their browser—IPN is server-to-server and should be the primary source of truth ().
  • Pay attention to payment_status: pending/eCheck/unverified-address payments should not be shipped until cleared.
  • Keep tracking numbers and mark transactions as shipped in PayPal for dispute protection. Shipping address data is sent with transactions (see Website Payments variables) — validate it before shipping.

This complements 's point that the transaction appears in PayPal; implementing IPN/PDT turns that into an automated, reliable order workflow.

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I created Buy Now button with paypal using sandbox (for testing purpose) and I got succeeded, cash is flowing properly from buyer account to seller account. Now my question is, who will take care of shipment of product. I mean I should manually ship/deliver those products or Paypal will take care of it.

It should be the company that has the product. Not PayPal. If you are small busniess you are the one to make sure the product is set before it is shipped. Another words, you do the packaging and ship it to the destination.

Or

You can hired a 3rd parties that does that? But why you anyone do that, it will cost you more money.

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Thanks for the reply. As I tested Buy Now button through Sandbox so, I didn't got any email saying your x goods are sold. On live when buyer purchase goods online through Paypal Buy Now button does it inform seller that, X buyer has purchased the goods so you need to deliver him the product. I mean how Seller will come to know if any purchase is made? Or he need to always keep checking his Cash received summary from his Paypal account?

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Thanks for the reply. As I tested Buy Now button through Sandbox so, I didn't got any email saying your x goods are sold. On live when buyer purchase goods online through Paypal Buy Now button does it inform seller that, X buyer has purchased the goods so you need to deliver him the product. I mean how Seller will come to know if any purchase is made? Or he need to always keep checking his Cash received summary from his Paypal account?

Have you ever used a ecommerce website before? I mean the question you are asking is like you never used a shopping cart before.

When a user finish buying stuff on the website and click submit and the data will appear in the database and also on PayPal.

I mean there's an invoice for each purchase. You and the user have a copy of the invoice transaction.

The shipping part has nothing to do with PayPal. You have to shipped the product to the user. It means you also have to pack the gift or whatever item in a box and shipped it out either Fed ex or whatever.

Do you understand how it works now.

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I'm fresh to ecommerce website. Even what I discuss that, I'm not doing through ecommerce. I'm just using Paypal Buy Now button which creates button for me. I just need to add button code in my html file. Once, user click on that button then, it will take user to paypal site and from their user can buy product. On purchase cash will deduct from buyer account and it will add in seller account. Till here my concept was clear but, I have doubt that, how seller will now that his product is sold or he need to see his cash flow in paypal account or do paypal sends mail to seller that, xyz product is sold.

Kindly, clear my concept.

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Till here my concept was clear but, I have doubt that, how seller will now that his product is sold or he need to see his cash flow in paypal account or do paypal sends mail to seller that, xyz product is sold.

When someone buy something from your website.

The money will go your account.

Then you need to pack the item and shipped it that person.

Please don't used the word cash flow it make me wonder what you are actually trying to do.

Kindly, clear my concept.

I already repeat this couple of times.

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