Anyone else having paypal issues lately?

[compunerdy]

Lately I have had a few orders not getting marked as paid from PayPal. It is probably 1 out of 1000 or so but up until a couple of months ago it ran smoothly for a few years. I have not made any changes in paypal.

[jmestep]

We have a site that is having problems also. Like you said, just a few.

[AbleMods]

When it come to PayPal, I would take 1 out of 1,000 any day of the week.....

[Katie]

Are you all using standard Paypal payments? (IPN)

PayPal admits that it is not a reliable payment method. We are thinking about using them for Website Payments Pro. The Authorize.net gateway fees are getting ridiculous.

[jmestep]

I believe most of our sites use IPN. I know a lot of customers use Paypal, but I hate troubleshooting it. We used to have one person who was our Paypal specialist because problems came up so frequently. Now we spread the knowledge(trouble!) around.

[Katie]

We made the switch to Paypal yesterday, but decided against the std IPN version. We did activate the Paypal credit feature though.

The sandbox accounts are a joke. I can usually expect to get 1 out of 10 successful attempts. I think they have these servers overloaded.