Paypal payment_gross is empty

Question

I am working with with paypal sandbox.

According with that article after IPN verification i need to check payment_gross field but in my case it is empty.

Also i have fields mc_gross and mc_gross_1 which is contains paid amount so should i check mc_gross insteard? any thoughts why payment_gross is empty?

Answer 1

1. payment_gross: Will be empty for non-USDpayments. This is a legacy fieldreplaced by
2. mc_gross: If this amount is negative, it signifies a refund or reversal, and either of those payment statuses can be for the full or partial amount of the original transaction.

Make sense?

Answer 2

Not sure why payment_gross is empty (or whether or not it should be) but I've always used mc_gross to check the payment amount and I've never had any problems. In fact if memory serves I originally copied that from a PHP code sample from the Paypal developer documents.