Paypal does not appear to be posting back FORM.payment_status to my IPN script. The scripts I am using are as follows: Subscription Form: <form action="https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/x-click-but20.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick-subscriptions"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="testneil@galleries-online.co.uk"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Bronze Level"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="no_shipping" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="return" value="http://www.galleries-online.co.uk/a_subscribeupdate.cfm"> <cfoutput><input type="hidden" name="cancel_return" value="http://www.galleries-online.co.uk/cms/artist_cms.cfm?artistid=#session.artistid#&content=subscribecancel"></cfoutput> <input type="hidden" name="payer_id" value="#session.artistid#"> <input type="hidden" name="no_note" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="GBP"> <input type="hidden" name="a3" value="4.00"> <input type="hidden" name="p3" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="t3" value="M"> <input type="hidden" name="src" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="sra" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="rm" value="2"> </form> And the IPN script is: <CFSET str="cmd=_notify-validate"> <CFLOOP INDEX="TheField" list="#Form.FieldNames#"> <CFSET str = str & "#LCase(TheField)#=#URLEncodedFormat(Evaluate(TheField))#"> </CFLOOP> <CFIF IsDefined("FORM.payment_date")> <CFSET str = str & "&payment_date=#URLEncodedFormat(Form.payment_date)#"> </CFIF> <CFIF IsDefined("FORM.subscr_date")> <CFSET str = str & "&subscr_date=#URLEncodedFormat(Form.subscr_date)#"> </CFIF> <!-- assign posted variables to local variables --> <CFSET item_name=FORM.item_name> <CFSET payment_status=FORM.payment_status> <CFSET payment_amount=FORM.mc_gross> <CFSET payment_currency=FORM.mc_currency> <CFSET txn_id=FORM.txn_id> <CFSET receiver_email=FORM.receiver_email> <CFSET payer_email=FORM.payer_email> <CFIF IsDefined("FORM.item_number")> <CFSET item_number=FORM.item_number> </CFIF> <!-- post back to PayPal system to validate --> <CFHTTP URL="https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?#str#" METHOD="GET" RESOLVEURL="false"> </CFHTTP> <!-- check notification validation --> <CFIF #CFHTTP.FileContent# is "VERIFIED"> <!-- check that payment_status=Completed --> <cfif payment_status eq "Completed"> <!-- check that receiver_email is your email address --> <cfif #RECEIVER_EMAIL# eq "neil@galleries-online.co.uk"> <!-- process payment --> <cftry> <cfquery name="qInsertOrder" datasource="#ds#"> INSERT INTO tbl_artists( package ) VALUES( '#ITEM_NUMBER#' ) WHERE artistid=#form.payer_id# </cfquery> <cfcatch> <!--- let's log all errors ---> <cffile action="append" file="D:\WWWRoot\galleries-onlineco.uk\www\paypal_logs\paypal_log.txt" output="Error order info"> </cfcatch> </cftry> <cfelse><p>email not neil@g</p> </cfif> <cfelse><p>Payment not complete</p> </cfif> <cfelse><p>unverified</p> </cfif> Any help would be greatly appreciated. Neil