PayPal Not Reporting Back to ClickFunnels/Funnelish

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:rocket: 2026 Updates: Deprecated CF Plugin & Native Order Tracking

Changes & Current Status:

  • In this 2018 thread, users had issues with PayPal not reporting sales back to ClickFunnels or the legacy Funnelish app, which broke their automations. Fixing this often required manually configuring PayPal IPN (Instant Payment Notification) URLs and ClickFunnels webhooks.

  • This legacy plugin workflow and manual IPN setups are completely deprecated. Today, Funnelish is a standalone Funnel Builder and eCommerce platform. You no longer need ClickFunnels, nor do you need to hack together PayPal IPN URLs to track your orders.

Up-to-Date Information for PayPal Order Tracking & Automations: Because you now build your funnels directly within Funnelish, your PayPal connection is completely native, and order data is tracked automatically without relying on fragile third-party webhook relays.

1. Secure API Connections: When you connect PayPal via the native Funnelish Pay integration, it uses modern, secure API connections. Every transaction (whether a one-time purchase, an upsell, or a subscription) is automatically and accurately recorded in your Funnelish Orders dashboard. There is absolutely no need to manually configure IPNs in your PayPal seller settings.

2. Native Automations: Because the orders are logged natively in Funnelish, you don’t need ClickFunnels to trigger your post-purchase workflows. You can easily use Funnel Automations:

  • Go to your Funnel Automations (or Global Automations).

  • Create a rule triggered by On Purchase.

  • Add actions to instantly send order confirmation emails, grant course access, or push data to external integrations (like Shopify, Zapier, or Mailchimp) the exact moment PayPal approves the transaction.

Related Articles & Resources:

Plugin/Functionality Concerned

PayPal App Not Reporting Back After A Purchase Is Made

Issue Description

We’re using the regular PayPal integration, and it worked & sold someone correctly for our product, but the sale was never reported back to ClickFunnels OR Funnelish. I’m afraid:
1 - The recurring product he bought won’t recur since Funnelish didn’t see it
2 - We need automations to go off if someone buys, but the message needs to get back to ClickFunnels/Funnelish

Screenshots/Videos/References…etc

Here is a video of our setup: https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cF1YFTF2Xn

Thanks! Let us know if it’s an app issue or if we’ve set it up incorrectly. Thanks!

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Hi Ben,

Thank you for the very detailed video :wink: It helped a lot understanding your case.

Though there was one little thing you didn’t mention, was the “Orders” tab in both Funnelish (first) and Clickfunnels.

As currently ALL Funnelish sales can be recorded within Funnelish under “Orders”. If they are not recorded for some reason (and your data tracking is on) then most likely it’s a PayPal issue.

We had very rare cases of badely configured accounts where the IPNs from PayPal aren’t reported back to neither Funnelish nor Clickfunnels… which can be fixed for sure :slight_smile:

So please make sure to check under Orders in Funnelish and let me know how it’s looking

Best,
– @yassine

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Thanks Yassine!

I’ve checked the Order tabs both in ClickFunnels & Funnelish - nothing. Here’s a video: Part 2 - PayPal's IPN Seems To Be The Issue

I’m thinking it’s the IPN. How do I adjust that?

Thanks!

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Indeed Ben, that seems to be the case…

I PM’d you a link copy/past it into your PayPal IPN settings link, that should fix the problem for Funnelish, and Funnelish will also push the orders to Clickfunnels as well.

Here is how to do it:

  1. Go to settings in PayPal.

  2. Then My selling Tools.

  3. Search for “Instant payment notifications” and hit update.

  4. Paste the URL sent to you, and select Enabled…

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  5. Save your changes and give it a try.

Hope that helps :wink:

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Hi Yassine,

I have the same problem. What should I do?

Thx

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Hi @Huu

So can you confirm that your Funnelish funnel doesn’t track any orders and that the orders tracking is enabled :slight_smile:

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Hi, could you send me that link as well? I am having the same issue where the sales info is not being transferred back to Clickfunnels. I need it to be so customers can access the course they buy via Clickfunnels hosting. Thanks!

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@yassine so what is supposed to go in the IPN notification URL field? I’m not clear on that. I am not seeing orders made with paypal/funnelish show up in clickfunnels.

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I’m also not seeing the orders populated in the “Order Summary” in clickfunnels. I assume that is related though…

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Do you see your orders in Funnelish though?
If you see them which is mostly the case then you don’t really have to miss around with your IPN settings… IPN mis configuration is very rare case which requires you to adjust your IPN.

As for most cases, it’s either the Webhook Url is wrong, or the Cart Product ID is wrong or not copied correctly…