Orders stuck on pending

PayPal is not returning to WooCommerce after taking payment, so those are the settings to look at. Sorry, can’t say which setting.

Enabling the PayPal debug log may help:
https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/paypal-standard/

I’m having the exact same problem. Paypal seems to be working fine, but all orders go from ‘Payment Pending’ to ‘Cancelled’ due to payment time out.

Checking my Woocommerce install, it looks as thugh Paypal Standard has been disabled. I never did this, but I did update Woocommerce yesterday ??

• This reply was modified 6 years, 2 months ago by obversebooks.

Same issue here! I’m not getting “new order” emails and orders are stuck in pending status in woocommerce. Some of the payments are processing in my PayPal account but the stuck in pending status won’t take items out of stock. It seems that PayPal is not “talking back” to woocommerce. Not sure where to go from here… Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks!

SAME ISSUE!
The order status is pending when the customer paying through paypal account even if I am getting the payment.
Its just started yesterday!
I didnt do anything with my WP or Woocommerce!

PLEASE HELP!!!

Any help please?!

Same issue here, started yesterday. Payment is coming through as normal to PayPal but orders are stuck on pending until I manually change it to processing/complete. Confirmation emails are not sent out to customers or myself until I do this and it also has stopped changing the stock levels automatically.
Can anyone help?

Any chance of someone from WC commenting on/assisting with this?

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Also just realised that I haven’t received any transaction emails from PayPal since the issue started yesterday (neither receipts for sales or for the purchases I’ve made on other websites), is anyone else experiencing this too and could it mean it’s a problem on PayPals end?

Hello, are you using Automaticc paypal express free plugin ?

I’m not.

WooCommerce plugin

I’m using the WooCommerce plugin too. I’ve managed to rectify it for now by setting up a PayPal identity token, this allows payments to be verified without the need for IPN. It seems to be working so far all orders since have come through normally.

Login to your PayPal account, go to settings > my payment preferences > website preferences > turn on auto return and enter your website link, turn on payment data transfer and then you are provided with the identity token.
Then go to WooCommerce > Settings > Payments > PayPal
Copy the identity token from PayPal into the PayPal Identity token section.
Hope this helps someone else

Yep, WooCommerce. I’ll give your suggestion a try livro128 – ta.

Hope Woo team member will find a minute to reply to this thread!

• This reply was modified 6 years, 2 months ago by gerasimovich.