Paypal - payment data transfer?

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   I'm setting up an affiliate program through shareasale but because many customers use Paypal and never return back to my 'order confirmation' page, the tracking wont be triggered. Apparently i have to set up "payment data transfer' with paypal and use the following code (or a variation of) on my site. The Paypal confirmation page provided by PC seems to have similar code though...

anyone done this before, or know a trick I should be aware of? earlyimpact?

thanks in advance

<%@LANGUAGE="VBScript"%>
<%

Dim authToken, txToken
Dim query
Dim objHttp
Dim sQuerystring
Dim sParts, iParts, aParts
Dim sResults, sKey, sValue
Dim i, result
Dim firstName, lastName, itemName, mcGross, mcCurrency

authToken =  "Dc7P6f0ZadXW-U1X8oxf8_vUK09EHBMD7_53IiTT-CfTpfzkN0nipFKUPYy "
txToken = Request.Querystring("tx")

query = "cmd=_notify-synch&tx=" & txToken &
"&at=" & authToken

set objHttp = Server.CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")
' set objHttp = Server.CreateObject("Msxml2.ServerXMLHTTP")
objHttp.open "POST", "http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr", false
objHttp.setRequestHeader "Content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
objHttp.Send query

sQuerystring = objHttp.responseText

If Mid(sQuerystring,1,7) = "SUCCESS" Then
sQuerystring = Mid(sQuerystring,9)
sParts = Split(sQuerystring, vbLf)
iParts = UBound(sParts) - 1
ReDim sResults(iParts, 1)
For i = 0 To iParts
aParts = Split(sParts(i), "=")
sKey = aParts(0)
sValue = aParts(1)
sResults(i, 0) = sKey
sResults(i, 1) = sValue

Select Case sKey
Case "first_name"
firstName = sValue
Case "last_name"
    lastName = sValue
Case "item_name"
    itemName = sValue
Case "mc_gross"
    mcGross = sValue
Case "mc_currency"
    mcCurrency = sValue
End Select
Next

Response.Write("<p><h3>Your order has been received.</h3></p>")
Response.Write("<b>Details</b><br>")
Response.Write("<li>Name: " & firstName & " " & lastName & "</li>")
Response.Write("<li>Description: " & itemName & "</li>")
Response.Write("<li>Amount: " & mcCurrency & " " & mcGross & "</li>")
Response.Write("<hr>")
Else
'log for manual investigation
Response.Write("ERROR")
End If

%>