Paypal subscription webhook for recurring payment

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I had set up Paypal webhooks to track the recurring payments. I had set up webhook for

BILLING.SUBSCRIPTION.UPDATED
BILLING.SUBSCRIPTION.RE-ACTIVATED
BILLING.SUBSCRIPTION.RENEWED
BILLING.SUBSCRIPTION.CANCELLED
BILLING.SUBSCRIPTION.EXPIRED
BILLING.SUBSCRIPTION.SUSPENDED
BILLING.SUBSCRIPTION.PAYMENT.FAILED
BILLING.SUBSCRIPTION.ACTIVATED

I am not getting any event apart from Activate. can anyone help me to find out the hook that I need to set up to track transactions for the recurring subscription billing?

Thanks

Devin answered 30/4, 2020 at 16:37 Comment(3)

Have any of the other things that would trigger the other events actually occurred? – Langsdon 30/4, 2020 at 17:40

Billing.Subscription.created also works. but I am not sure if I can test other hooks. I created a subscription yesterday and it was set up for every day but haven't got any event fired for reccuring payment. – Devin 30/4, 2020 at 17:47

are these events sent to the webhook in sandbox mode? – Ishii 6/6 at 11:22

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See https://developer.paypal.com/docs/integration/direct/webhooks/event-names/#subscriptions

It looks like you want PAYMENT.SALE.COMPLETED

There is also one for refunded and reversed.

Langsdon answered 30/4, 2020 at 18:24 Comment(9)

so it will also work for the first payment made. How can I get a subscription id and other data with it? So I can create the user transactions on my side. – Devin 30/4, 2020 at 18:50

What data do you get for this event? – Langsdon 30/4, 2020 at 19:15

I want to know what data this webhook sends to our server. Also if a subscription gets charged do I also got subscription id. I basically need the subscription id and transaction id of the payment. – Devin 30/4, 2020 at 19:38

There is a webhook simulator in developer.paypal.com , if you want to use that, however the best way to know what data you will obtain for a subscription payment, specifically , is to do a test subscription payment with an active webhook subscription, and log the data received – Langsdon 30/4, 2020 at 19:47

the only id you get is "parent_payment". – Riancho 6/7, 2020 at 22:13

How did you manage to get ANY hooks? Ive ticked everything on the web hook setup screen but I still receive no events for anything. Is there a global setting that needs to be enabled or something? – Unlade 9/1, 2021 at 23:30

How do you know if a PAYMENT.SALE.COMPLETED is a renewal? Do I have keep track in db or is there some way simpler to know. – Fantail 9/5, 2023 at 18:57

The simplest way is usually to include something uniquely identifying the profile/user when creating the subscription, in the custom_id field parameter to createSubscription. This custom value is then returned in every future webhook event for the subscription. Other then that additional field to aid in reconciliation, yes keep track of everything in your own database. – Langsdon 9/5, 2023 at 19:44

Preston, you rock, thanks. Consider making a course on Paypal, I think you will do very well. :-) – Fantail 9/5, 2023 at 20:48

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In the webhook simulator PAYMENT.SALE.COMPLETED is not fully shown, but it is correct to use when payment for a subscription is made. It also has a subscription_id (it called billing_agreement_id for some reason).

{
    "id": "WH-528005538C798144N-7H391362AP602264K",
    "create_time": "2021-04-17T22:45:35.950Z",
    "resource_type": "sale",
    "event_type": "PAYMENT.SALE.COMPLETED",
    "summary": "Payment completed for CAD 14.55 CAD",
    "resource": {
        "billing_agreement_id": "I-37B4TLL0FAJJ",
        "amount": {
            "total": "14.55",
            "currency": "CAD",
            "details": {
                "subtotal": "14.55"
            }
        },
        "payment_mode": "INSTANT_TRANSFER",
        "update_time": "2021-04-17T22:44:02Z",
        "create_time": "2021-04-17T22:44:02Z",
        "protection_eligibility_type": "ITEM_NOT_RECEIVED_ELIGIBLE,UNAUTHORIZED_PAYMENT_ELIGIBLE",
        "transaction_fee": {
            "currency": "CAD",
            "value": "0.72"
        },
        "protection_eligibility": "ELIGIBLE",
        "links": [
            {
                "method": "GET",
                "rel": "self",
                "href": "https://api.sandbox.paypal.com/v1/payments/sale/44P499886K055384U"
            },
            {
                "method": "POST",
                "rel": "refund",
                "href": "https://api.sandbox.paypal.com/v1/payments/sale/44P499886K055384U/refund"
            }
        ],
        "id": "44P499886K055384U",
        "state": "completed",
        "invoice_number": ""
    },
    "status": "PENDING",
    "transmissions": [
        {
            "webhook_url": "https://webhook.site/7ece4e68-de87-46df-a341-5d3dc580efe6",
            "transmission_id": "b02ef980-9fce-11eb-b0ec-5bc241fbaaf3",
            "status": "PENDING"
        }
    ],
    "links": [
        {
            "href": "https://api.sandbox.paypal.com/v1/notifications/webhooks-events/WH-528005538C798144N-7H391362AP602264K",
            "rel": "self",
            "method": "GET",
            "encType": "application/json"
        },
        {
            "href": "https://api.sandbox.paypal.com/v1/notifications/webhooks-events/WH-528005538C798144N-7H391362AP602264K/resend",
            "rel": "resend",
            "method": "POST",
            "encType": "application/json"
        }
    ],
    "event_version": "1.0"
}

Crittenden answered 17/4, 2021 at 21:56 Comment(1)

It helps us to figure out an answer if you ask a question. – Communize 20/4, 2021 at 6:47