How does the refund tag look like in the ClickBank API in this example

Hi,

I have succeded to retreive the information from a TEST purchase through the API.
The information I got looks like below.

If this person does a refund of this product, I beleive that an additional refund tag should be avaliable then?

If that is true, exactly how does this look like. It is impossible to find this information anywhere. I have googled for 12 hours.

<orderData xmlns:cb="http://www.clickbank.com/api">
<date>2011-03-14T08:23:03-07:00</date>
<receipt>6RBJRLEH</receipt>
<promo xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:nil="true"/>
<pmtType>TEST</pmtType>
<txnType>TEST_SALE</txnType>
<item>1</item>
<amount>84.63</amount>
<site>USERNAME</site>
<affi xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:nil="true"/>
<country>SE</country>
<state xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:nil="true"/>
<lastName>NAME2</lastName>
<firstName>NAME1</firstName>
<currency>SEK</currency>
<email>email@hotmail.com</email>
<zip>11129</zip>
<rebillAmount xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:nil="true"/>
<processedPayments xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:nil="true"/>
<futurePayments xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:nil="true"/>
<nextPaymentDate xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:nil="true"/>
<status xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:nil="true"/>
<accountAmount>57.22</accountAmount>
<role>VENDOR</role>
<customerDisplayName>Peter Andersson</customerDisplayName>
</orderData>

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Does anyone know how the refund tag look like. It is impossible to find anywhere on google.

I have sent an email to the support of Clickbank but haven´t got any answer for 2 days. I wonder if they even answer this question?

 

Yes, they send refund variables and chargeback variables to the URL you specify in the IPN notification setting in your account..
See this page. http://www.clickbank.com/help/account-help/account-tools/instant-notification-service/#CODE

The page you enter as the IPN page should have code to receive and process RFND and CHBK variables they send.

 

I am happy for your reponse. I do have very good programming skills so I will be able to extract the RFND, CHBK etc from the querystring they send.

But there is one thing I dont understand. They say that you will put an URL where they send FORM parameters. I dont really understand how this works
in practic?

"ClickBank posts FORM parameters to a URL you specify"

Will I specify a folder on my website like below for instance and they will send files to this folder. I am not sure how they send and in what format?
If my website is this: mywebsite.com/parameters

 

Log into clickbank, go to this page. https://unexplain.accounts.clickbank.com/account/site.htm

Click "EDIT" on advanced tools. Enter IPN url where it specifies

 

Thanks floodrod, (I do use C# to mention)

I have enabled this service now. But still there is no real information what this is that I have to specify. I dont understand what kind of URL this is:?

Instant Notification URL 1:

Is it an URL on my server, a file that I must create on my server, or an URL somewhere else?

I beleive I need a litte real time example of what this URL is. As I did understand this URL does contain all the parameters needed that I am able to extract.
Then I wonder, if I have 50 customers and one of the is doing a refund, how is it possible for me to know which customer this is, from just one URL?
I know I can match the email together with the RFND variable. But all 50 customers in one URL. I dont know how it looks like and are delivered exactly?

I beleive I haven´t seen any realtime example of how this is forward and how this looks like in order to continue from here.
I will be very happy for any help.

 

Thanks floodrod.. Now I do understand the procedure.. I have set up an .aspx page with its .cs file. which then is: mysite.com/Listener.aspx

I am sure there is just 1 to 3 lines missing from this code to see if ipnValid == true from the request. But I dont know how to use the function in the Page_Load.
Clickbank does not respond on this type of question so I get really frustrated how to understand how to check if ipnValid is true from the HttpRequest request?

All other logic after this, I will have no problem to implement. If you have any idéas of how to do this, please let me know. I am checking here all the time. Thanks

    using System.Security.Cryptography;  
    using System.Text;  
  
    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)  
    {  
        if( ipnValid == true )  
        {  
            //Do stuff ??  
        }  
    }  
  
    public static bool ipnValid(HttpRequest request)  
    {  
  
        string secretKey = "YOUR SECRET KEY";  
        List<String> ipnFields = new List<String>();  
  
        foreach (string param in request.Form.Keys)  
        {  
            if (param.Equals("cverify"))  
            {  
                continue;  
            }  
            ipnFields.Add(param);  
        }  
        ipnFields.Sort();  
  
        string pop = "";  
        foreach (String field in ipnFields)  
        {  
            pop += request.Form.Get(field) + "|";  
        }  
        pop += secretKey;  
        string cverify = request.Form.Get("cverify");  
        byte[] hashedData = new SHA1Managed().ComputeHash(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(pop));  
        string calced_verification = BitConverter.ToString(hashedData).Replace("-", "").ToUpper().Substring(0, 8);  
        return calced_verification.Equals(cverify);  
    } 

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I managed to fix this and got a positive response from clickbank during a test. In my page_load:

   protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        HttpRequest request = HttpContext.Current.Request;
        if (Response.StatusCode != 200)
        {
            Response.Write("There was a problem accessing the web resource" +
                "<br />" + Response.StatusDescription);
        }


        //Here check if ipnValid is true
        bool IsThisTrue = ipnValid(request);

        if (IsThisTrue == true)
        {
            Response.Write("This is Okay!");
        }
        if (IsThisTrue == false)
        {
            Response.Write("This is not Okay!");
        }
}
        

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