Hi,
If you received the email "your order is now confirmed", your paypal plugin configurable should be wrong.
The email "your order is now confirmed" seems that the order is confirmed, so, that the payment has been made or the status for "cancel" is not right.
Regards,
Jerome - Obsidev.com
HikaMarket & HikaSerial developer / HikaShop core dev team.
Also helping the HikaShop support team when having some time or couldn't sleep.
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