Hi,
Normally, you should get 4 emails:
- one to the customer when the order is created before the payment, called "order creation notification"
- one to the admin when the order is created before the payment called "order admin notification"
- one to the customer when the order status is changed to "confirmed" after the payment, called "order status notification"
- one to the admin when the order status is changed to "confirmed" after the payment called "payment notification"
If the order is being confirmed and the customer didn't get the "order status notification", that's really strange. That would only happen if the email is disabled in the System>Emails menu.
If the order is being confirmed and the shop owner didn't get the "payment notification" email, it could also be that the email is disabled, but it could also be that the "payment notification email address" setting is empty in the HikaShop configuration instead of containing your email address.
Also, you can in the menu Customers>Email history to check the emails that have been sent by HikaShop. Because sometimes the email has been sent but it was refused by the email server as it was flagged as spam or something.
So please check these.
Now, regarding the fact that the order status is not changed to "confirmed" now that you changed to the live account:
This indicates that your website is not receiving anymore the payment notification. In your screenshots, I only see the sandbox URL and not the PayPal live URL in the URL setting of the payment method, and you don't talk about changing it. So make sure that you're using the live URL if you're using the live account email address.
Also, if the payment is received in your PayPal account, you should be able to access the IPN history of the account:
developer.paypal.com/docs/api-basics/not...s/ipn/IPNOperations/
There, it should provide valuable information on why the IPN failed. So please check on that.