Answers.Body: <p>I don't think so. Here's a similar question: <a href="https://civicrm.stackexchange.com/questions/7146/what-are-my-options-for-importing-recurring-contributions">What are my options for importing recurring contributions?</a></p>
  <p>The subscription information held at paypal includes the IPN url (<a href="https://developer.paypal.com/api/nvp-soap/ipn/IPNIntro/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://developer.paypal.com/api/nvp-soap/ipn/IPNIntro/</a>), which is how paypal communicates about new payments made as part of the subscription. As far as I know, you can't modify the IPN url. If you had a way of redirecting or proxying those ipn calls to the equivalent CiviCRM ipn, you might get it working.</p>
  
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Body: <p>is it possible to migrate existing paypal subscriptions (not created with CiviCRM) to CiviCRM?
  I tried:</p>
  <ol>
  <li>to create a recurring contribution with Paypal invoice Id in the field <code>civicrm_contribution_recur.invoice_id</code></li>
  <li>to activate PayPal IPN</li>
  </ol>
  <p>Do you know what other steps need to be taken?</p>
  
Tags: <recurring-contributions><paypal>
Title: Transfer Paypal subscriptions to CiviCRM
ThreadText: # Transfer Paypal subscriptions to CiviCRM
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2023-03-06)
  
  is it possible to migrate existing paypal subscriptions (not created with CiviCRM) to CiviCRM?
  I tried:
  
  1. to create a recurring contribution with Paypal invoice Id in the field `civicrm_contribution_recur.invoice_id`
  2. to activate PayPal IPN
  
  Do you know what other steps need to be taken?
  
  **Tags:** recurring-contributions, paypal
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2023-03-07. Score: 2
  
  I don't think so. Here's a similar question: [What are my options for importing recurring contributions?](https://civicrm.stackexchange.com/questions/7146/what-are-my-options-for-importing-recurring-contributions)
  
  The subscription information held at paypal includes the IPN url (<https://developer.paypal.com/api/nvp-soap/ipn/IPNIntro/>), which is how paypal communicates about new payments made as part of the subscription. As far as I know, you can't modify the IPN url. If you had a way of redirecting or proxying those ipn calls to the equivalent CiviCRM ipn, you might get it working.
  
  
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