Will paypal receive payments if plugin temporary disabled?

[ishop]

Hello,
it is about the payment plan with no-expiry setting.
Will paypal receveive this endless subscription payments even when the simple membership is (temporary) deactivated?
Or does paypal need a webhook from the plugin for that?
Thank you very much

[The Assurer]

If it’s a PayPal button, that goes directly to PayPal; the payment will be accepted. If it’s a recurring subscription payment, it will also “take the money” from the subscriber as scheduled.

HOWEVER, the resulting IPN will not be processed by your site, if the plugin is “down.” PayPal will then attempt up to 15 IPN retries, according to a preset (by them) schedule. If the plugin is offline for too long, PayPal will stop retrying to resend IPN. The net effect is that members will complain about memberships not registering, or being renewed; and you’ll have to process them by hand.

PayPal will also send you an email after the 15th IPN retry. Your PayPal account also keeps an IPN history log. As I recall, IPN retries are spaced out over a 4 day period; so you’ll have at least that long to do what needs to be done.

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