[Answer]-Django paypal notify_url not configured correctly or working

First off @mcastle Thank you so much for your help. But I just couldn’t figure out the Django signals.

Ok so what I had to do in the end is go to the paypal.standard.ipn.views file and import my app and call the show_me_the_money view from there at the very bottom of the view just before it returns the http response.

So the notify url in the paypal dict like this…

"notify_url": "http://wackosmackosite.com/show_me_the_money/",

And the url in my urls file is like this..

 url(r'^show_me_the_money/', include('paypal.standard.ipn.urls')),

I was able to extract the info I needed to update my database from the arguments passed to show_me_the_money. like this…

def show_me_the_money(sender, **kwargs):
    ipn_obj = sender

    payStatus=ipn_obj.POST.get('payment_status','')

    if payStatus=='Completed':
        ....

Then in the paypal ipn view
at the top…

from myApp.views import show_me_the_money

At the bottom…

s_m_t_m=show_me_the_money(request, item_check_callable=None)
return HttpResponse("OKAY")

I found this whole set-up very confusing and think the documentaion for me just leaves lots of important stuff out. Anyway This is working perfect now and I just got off the phone with pay pal and they are happy it is configured correctly.