Recuring Pay Pal error

Hi,

That happens because paypal tries to contact HikaShop to tell it that the payments are OK for the orders ,however, there is something blocking paypal to do so.
it can come from one of these points:

Your website is on localhost (ie. not accessible from the Internet). PayPal can only send payment notifications to HikaShop if your website is accessible from the outside.
Your website is protected by an .htaccess which only allows the access when the correct username/password is entered. PayPal doesn't know the username/password of your .htaccess and thus cannot contact HikaShop.
Your website is in maintenance and only accessible for users with an administrator account. PayPal won't be able to contact HikaShop because Joomla won't authorize him.
The option "allow payment notifications from paypal" of the PayPal is turned off. You should turn it on.
You changed the IPs in the PayPal IPs option of the PayPal plugin.
You have a security component which forbids scripts to contact your website. You should ask a solution from your security component provider.

So do you mean that the paypal setting "allow payment notifications from paypal" was off and that you turned it on now ?
Because then that should solve the problem.

If not, you could try to toggle the "return method" option of the paypal plugin. That might help.

The email you receive from HikaShop says that it cannot connect to PayPal and gives a link which explains the situation:

When your server receives a notification it needs first to confirm whether this notification comes from your payment gateway or not because it is always possible that a valid IP address has been injected and that someone else is tried to validate an order. So there is a mechanism in place to contact a paypal server HikaShop knows as being an official paypal server to confirm that it comes from paypal. If this connection fails, that means that either your hosting company is blocking outgoing connections from your server or you don't have the openssl option activated in your PHP configuration or that the paypal servers are down, the later being a lot less likely. So you should check that you website is able to make outgoing connections and that the SSL is activated. Also, we advise you to contact your hosting provider to ask them about their policies on outgoing connections.