Received submission without payment - how it that possible?

Hi there,

I have a form to book rafting in Bali through our website. Yesterday we received a booking but the guest wasn’t required to pay through PayPal. How is that possible? Normally I only receive the booking when the person paid. How is that possible? 

Need to solve this asap.

Best Regards,

Chris

I can not say why that happened maybe it was a temporary error on the form but I did a test submission and I was not able to replicate the issue. Can you say which browser he/she was using when this happened?

Are you sure that they weren't any network restrictions that could have blocked this user from being directed to the PayPal checkout page? Please advise.


Cheers!

Hi Sean! I also couldn't replicate the error. That's why I was even more surprised how the submission ended up in our inbox without payment. If the user would have been prevented from accessing PayPal the submission should still not be in our inbox. Only paid submissions should trigger the notification email. 

That is correct. Whenever a transaction is submitted, if the payment was completed or not it would be listed in the Incomplete Payment section of View Submissions until a there is a confirmation sent via PayPal IPN.

Once the payment is completed, you would be notified of this. Are you seeing this submission in the Incomplete Payment section or in the data grid in View Submissions?



Please let us know.

Hi Sean. That's the point. The submission should be in the incomplete payment section because no transaction was made. But instead it went through without the need to pay for the service. 

I believe I figured it out. A check box was used for the product options.


If the user un-checks the product option you have provided leaving the total at $0.00, they would not be directed to PayPal screen after submission but a thank you page. To prevent this from happening, I would recommend that you use a radio button to present the product options instead of a check box





or you can make this field required.



This should fix the issue. 

Thanks, fixed it.

We're glad to hear that your issue is now fixed. On behalf of Sean, you're welcome.

Let us know if you need any help. Thank you.