Paypal Mass Pay API Response Handling

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So this is probably more of a discussion item so I apologise if this should go elsewhere.

But I need to handle Responses (IPN) from using Paypal MassPay API.

At the moment I'm handling the Notifications correctly and tracking past payments made (Royalty Payments System).

Problem 1: Unclaimed Payments

But I've encountered an issue which I can't seem to handle on the sandbox site and that is Unclaimed payments. Now according to MassPay guide:

If the recipients do not have PayPal accounts, PayPal notifies them that a payment is available and they must create a PayPal account to receive the payment.

I assume this means that Paypal sends the user an email, I tried to test this but I received no notification

Problem 2: Claiming unclaimed Payments

Following the previous problem, I've been unable to test users claiming unclaimed values. So I'm wondering does anybody know how Paypal processes these and the format of the response;

  1. Does the response contain all previously claimed payments?
  2. Does the response contain all unclaimed payments?
  3. Does the response contain the status of all transfers in that transaction?

Thank you in advance

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When you send out your MassPay request, any unclaimed payments will be pending until they're claimed. Your IPN will show "processed" instead of "completed" for the status. Once they claim the payment you will get another IPN showing the payment has been completed.

When working in the sandbox you won't get any actual emails from their system. All test emails show up in your developer.paypal.com account under the test email section there.