Next Tip  Here Is How We Read A PayPal Notification Email Using VBA

for Access 2007 thru to Access 2000

Here are some screen shots from PayPal reader download that comes with The Toolshed (Order Here).

 
Paypal Notification email with some contents blurred. Note that the paypal email is in HTML format so it is quite tricky to read in VBA code. 



Move the email to the _Orders folder (using a rule or manually)

Open the Main form in the Access Database (you can import full code into your database)

Press the Extract button and Confirm that the order is OK.

 


The order is read, data is added to the table and the email is move to the _Orders Processing folder.

 


Click on the View Order button that will appear when the Paypal email order is moved successfully.

View the complete details on the form that pops up.

The data that was transferred from the PayPal Notification email to the table

  Your Sample Database Is Called   "paypalorders.zip"

Sample database is suited to all versions of Access

If you do NOT own "The Toolbox", Click here to find out how to purchase The Toolbox.

 

  Your Access 2007 Sample Database Is Called   "paypalorders2007.zip"

Sample database is suited to all versions of Access

If you do NOT own "The Toolbox", Click here to find out how to purchase The Toolbox.

Note: The Toolshed download for this article comes with full source code which includes late binding Outlook Automation calls and tricky html email parsing of the paypal email..

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Author Bio.
Garry Robinson is the founder of GR-FX Pty Limited, a company based in Sydney, Australia. Garry has been involved in 100s of Access databases Access. Contact details  in Australia     Web http://www.gr-fx.com/

  


Published  2008-07

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