# Paypal question: payment confirmation...?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/paypal-question-payment-confirmation/309224>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [May 10, 2010, 12:22pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/paypal-question-payment-confirmation/309224 "2010-05-10T12:22:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![0L4F](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/0/848f3c/32.png) [@0L4F](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/0L4F)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2010, 12:22pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/paypal-question-payment-confirmation/309224/1 "2010-05-10T12:22:21Z")

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Hello Kirupians,

Does any of you have experience with working with Paypal?

I’m doing some investigation for a client who wants me to create a website that has paid music downloads. I’ll do this in AS3.

I understand that I need to create a PayPal-button that sends variables to [https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr](https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr)

This’ll take you to a PayPal page where you can add the item to your cart.

My question comes down to this: how will I know that the payment has actually been made, and is ‘okayed’ by PayPal, so I can proceed with the download?

Many thanks in advance!