{"id":353,"date":"2019-04-04T10:15:52","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T10:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/04\/magento-paypal-duplicate-invoice-error\/"},"modified":"2025-05-22T17:01:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T11:31:16","slug":"magento-paypal-duplicate-invoice-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/magento-paypal-duplicate-invoice-error\/","title":{"rendered":"A Solution To Magento PayPal Duplicate Invoice Error"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">E-commerce business constantly hosts the transfer of money from customers to sellers. The crucial point in the process is the payment gateway. If there&#8217;s any flaw in the payment gateway, cart abandonment at payment point is bound to occur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For Magento stores, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/us\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/us\/home\" data-cke-saved->Paypal<\/a> is a popular payment gateway used for capturing secure online payments. However, sometimes, customers witness a <i><strong>Magento PayPal Duplicate Invoice Error<\/strong><\/i>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is somewhat like,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>&#8220;PayPal gateway has rejected request. Payment has already been made for this InvoiceID (#10412: Duplicate invoice)&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is displayed when submitting payment with invoices having the same ID sent to the Paypal, multiple times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For example, you migrated from Magento 1 to Magento 2. There are chances this issue may occur. In other cases, if multiple stores submit invoices with the same IDs or a new store uses an invoice ID already submitted by some previous old store, the issue occurs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If your customer faces this error, there are high chances he\/she might drop the idea to complete the purchase and instead opt for your competitor! You obviously do not want it. And, hence, follow this post for the solution to <i><strong>Magento PayPal Duplicate Invoice Error<\/strong><\/i>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The above issue is seen for the following Magento versions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Magento Commerce: any version<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Magento Commerce (Cloud): any version<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Magento Open Source: any version<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And the solution is to allow multiple payments per invoice ID in PayPal&#8217;s Payment Receiving Preferences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to Solve the Magento PayPal Duplicate Invoice Error:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Login to your <strong><a data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/in\/signin\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/in\/signin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Paypal<\/a><\/strong> account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Go to <strong>Profile<\/strong>&nbsp;&gt;&nbsp;<strong>Profile and settings<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Go to <strong>My Selling Tools<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Go to <strong>Getting paid and managing my risk<\/strong>&nbsp;&gt;&nbsp;<strong>Block payments<\/strong>&nbsp;and click <strong>Update<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Click <strong>Preferences for&nbsp;Receiving&nbsp;Payments<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Under <strong>Block Accidental Payments<\/strong>, choose <strong>No, allow multiple payments per invoice ID<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Scroll down and click <strong>Save.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Multiple-Payments-per-invoice-ID.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Multiple-Payments-per-invoice-ID.png\" alt=\"Multiple Payments per invoice ID\" class=\"wp-image-4585\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PayPal does not allow processing for the same invoice twice, according to the default settings. Therefore, allow receiving multiple payments per invoice ID to fix the PayPal &#8220;This invoice has already been paid&#8221; error.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Follow the above steps and enjoy secure payments via PayPal payment gateway for duplicate Magento and Magento 2 invoice IDs!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recently, we also published a solution to another common issue with this payment gateway because of custom amounts in order total. You can read it at <a title=\"How to Manage Custom Amount with PayPal in Magento 2\" href=\"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/manage-custom-amount-with-paypal-in-magento-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How to Manage Custom Amount with PayPal in Magento 2<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thank You. You can solve <a title=\"Solved \u2013 Magento PayPal Issue With Base Currency INR\" href=\"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/solved-magento-paypal-issue-with-base-currency-inr\/\">Magento PayPal issue with base currency INR<\/a> as a solution to the error that Paypal does not allow payments in the Magento store with base currency as INR by default.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>E-commerce business constantly hosts the transfer of money from customers to sellers. The crucial point in the process is the payment gateway. If there&#8217;s any&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-magento"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15481,"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions\/15481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}