I am the webmaster for a small non-profit that helps low income people get 
their animals spayed and neutered.

Every year, we have a calendar contest in which pet owners submit pictures of 
their pets.  Our site allows people to vote for the entries at $1/vote.

Currently, we allow them to add votes to their cart.  The site stores a token 
in the database and then sends them to paypal were they pay for their votes.  
After the transaction is complete, they click on the reutrn link on the paypal 
site to return to our site.  The link contains the token which, upon returning, 
counts their votes as paid for.

The problem we are running into is that some people do not click on the return 
link, which results in them paying for votes but the votes not counting.  This 
causes us to have to do a manual audit of the votes which is time consuming and 
causes customers to worry that their vote is not being counted.

Because of the cost involved, we are not able to use a traditional credit card 
processor for the contest.  We would like to continue using paypal for payments 
if possible, although I would be willing to use someone else if the price was 
right.

Does anyone offer something that we might be able to use that would solve this 
problem?  If there is a solution that allows us to process the transaction 
without leaving our site that would be great.  Alternatively, if we can get 
paypal to post a http request to our site automatically once the transaction is 
complete that would work as well.

The contest will only last for a month or two so we would like to avoid costly 
set up fees or long term commitments.

Thank you for your help. 

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