how do I simulate a PENDING response from the paypal IPN for testing purposes?

Question

I need to simulate a PENDING response to my IPN script (php).

Any help on how to configure the sandbox seller account in order to do this would be great!

Note that the IPN testing tool is not sufficient, I actually just need to it to send back a 'pending' notification.

Apologies if this is in the wrong place.

Answer 1

Turn on 'Payment review' on your Sandbox seller account via https://developer.paypal.com/
This will put any new transactions going through this test account in a 'Pending' state.

1. https://developer.paypal.com/
2. Test Accounts
3. Payment Review > Click 'Disabled'

Answer 2

Don't know if PayPal had this back when the question was asked but their IPN simulator is very convenient for testing pending responses and other responses.

https://developer.paypal.com/webapps/developer/applications/ipn_simulator