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Getting Notification about Your Payments
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Amazon has four ways to notify you of a payment status:
Sending an email message to your business email account
Displaying the transaction in your Amazon Payments Account Activity page
Sending transaction information by way of redirect values to your Return URL
Through Instant Payment Notification (IPN)
The first three methods always occur. Notification through IPN is available only if you have set up the IPN Return URL.
Notification through E-mail Messages
Whenever a buyer completes a transaction, Amazon Payments sends you an email message similar to that shown in the following figure. Transaction details are listed in the body of the email message.
The content of the email message sent out depends on the transaction and its status.
Notification through Account History
The second way to get notification from Amazon about the success of your transaction is to use your Amazon Payments account. This account logs all the transactions and gives you the amount paid, when it was paid, to whom, the status of the payment, and any fees associated with the transaction.
To view your account activity and transaction details
Go to http://payments.amazon.com.
Click the Your Account tab.
The Account Activity page appears.
From here you can do a simple search based on the Activity: and Within: drop-down menus, as shown in the figure above.
You can also click Advanced Search Options and display a page that lets you specify a particular date range.
Make your selections and click View. The results are displayed.
Click the Details link on a particular transaction to view its details:
Notification through Return URL Redirect
When your customers authorize payments with Amazon using your button, Amazon redirects them to the location you specified as the Return URL when you created the button. The redirection POST data contains name=value pairs which comprise the transaction details. To take advantage of this method, your Return URL page must process the values. For more information, see Handling the Return URL.
Notification through IPN
If you have configured the Amazon Simple Pay button to use an IPN URL, Amazon sends you the transaction details using Instant Payment Notification (IPN).
IPN is an HTTP POST notification that Amazon sends whenever a transaction is completed successfully or a transaction fails. Like Return URL redirection, it communicates transaction data that you must process programmatically. For more information, see Using Instant Payment Notification
