I need to collect information about our high school reunion attendees and allow them to pay via a PayPal button. I've created the PayPal Pay Now button, but not sure what if any information will be collected and sent back to me. Do I need a separate form to collect information or is there a way to make the PayPal button work as the submit button for the data I collect using a form?
You should use a IPN (Instant Payment Notification) for this. There are lots of good templates for this available on GitHub. Your form might look like this:
<form action="https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" >
<input type="hidden" name="business" value="YOUR PAYPAL ID">
<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick">
<input type="hidden" name="upload" value="1" />
<input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="ITEM_NAME">
<input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="ITEM_NUMBER>
<input type="hidden" name="amount" value="TOTAL_AMOUNT">
<input type="hidden" name="custom" value="<?php echo $attendee_id ?>">
<input type="hidden" name="no_note" value="1" />
<input type="hidden" name="rm" value="2">
<input type="hidden" name="cbt" value="Return to website">
<input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="EUR">
<input type="hidden" name="return" value="http://domain.com/success.php"/>
<input type="hidden" name="notify_url" value="http://domain.com/ipn.php"/>
<input type="hidden" name="cancel_return" value="http://domain.com/canceled.php"/>
<button type="submit">Pay using PayPal</button>
</form>
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I implemented a Paypal HTML button (payment and subscription) to direct the client to the Paypal site to make a payment. Also, I pass the invoice # as a parameter. According to the following documents, invoice is a pass-through variable.
https://developer.paypal.com/docs/paypal-payments-standard/integration-guide/Appx-websitestandard-htmlvariables/#
https://www.paypalobjects.com/webstatic/en_US/developer/docs/pdf/archive/PP_subscriptions.pdf
In fact, I do receive all parameters (including invoice) as a POST call when testing on my sandbox account. However, when I test on live payments (non-sandbox account), the invoice is not received. However, I receive other payment information such as item_number, custom, transaction id, etc. Also, with live payments, the information is passed through a GET call instead of a POST call.
In summary, why do I receive the invoice parameter from sandbox payments but not with live payments.
<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" class="message">
<input type="hidden" name="return" value="<%= (request.isSecure() ? "https" : "http") + "://" + request.getServerName() + "/upgradepayment" %>">
<input type="hidden" name="rm" value="2">
<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick-subscriptions">
<input type="hidden" name="hosted_button_id" value="...">
<input type="hidden" name="business" value="...">
<input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="...">
<input type="hidden" name="notify_url" value="..."
<input type="hidden" name="no_note" value="1">
<input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD">
<input type="hidden" name="no_shipping" value="1">
<input type="hidden" name="a3" value="...">
<input type="hidden" name="p3" value="1">
<input type="hidden" name="t3" value="M">
<input type="hidden" name="src" value="1">
<input type="hidden" name="sra" value="1">
<input type="hidden" name="invoice" value="...">
<input type="hidden" name="custom" value="...">
<input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="...">
<input id="ok" type="submit" name="submit" value="Pay and Subscribe with PayPal" alt="PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online" title="PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online">
</form>
<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" class="message">
<input type="hidden" value="<%= (request.isSecure() ? "https" : "http") + "://" + request.getServerName() + "/upgradepayment" %>" name="return">
<input type="hidden" name="rm" value="2">
<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick">
<input type="hidden" name="business" value="...">
<input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="...">
<input type="hidden" name="amount" value="...">
<input type="hidden" name="no_shipping" value="0">
<input type="hidden" name="no_note" value="1">
<input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD">
<input type="hidden" name="lc" value="CA">
<input type="hidden" name="bn" value="PP-BuyNowBF">
<input type="hidden" name="invoice" value="...">
<input type="hidden" name="custom" value="...">
<input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="...">
<input id="ok" type="submit" name="submit" value="Pay with PayPal" alt="PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online" title="PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online">
</form>
edit: I receive the information about subscriptions with instant payment notification (IPN)
I just did a live payment using this code below (your HTML but modified a bit):
<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" class="message">
<input type="hidden" name="rm" value="2">
<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick">
<input type="hidden" name="business" value="<BUSINESS_PAYPAL_EMAIL>">
<input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="<ITEM_NAME>">
<input type="hidden" name="notify_url" value="<CALLBACK_URL>"
<input type="hidden" name="no_note" value="1">
<input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD">
<input type="hidden" name="no_shipping" value="1">
<input type="hidden" name="p3" value="1">
<input type="hidden" name="t3" value="M">
<input type="hidden" name="src" value="1">
<input type="hidden" name="sra" value="1">
<input type="hidden" name="invoice" value="<INVOICE_ID>">
<input type="hidden" name="custom" value="<CUSTOM_OPTIONAL>">
<input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="<ITEM_NUMBER>">
<input type="hidden" name="amount" value="<AMOUNT>">
<input id="ok" type="submit" name="submit" value="Pay and Subscribe with PayPal" alt="PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online" title="PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online">
</form>
I used https://requestbin.com/ to collect the IPN Callbacks. Here is the screenshot with the invoice:
Make sure you are correctly implementing IPN listener request-response flow.
Your listener should return an empty 200 message back to Paypal to these addresses;
https://ipnpb.sandbox.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr (for Sandbox IPNs)
https://ipnpb.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr (for live IPNs)
After that you get a VERIFIED message along with parameters.
Make sure to include invoice input (which seems like you already did) in the form.
The invoice is optional and is not passed back to you by default.
There is also an IPN simulator which you can try and make sure your listener is working correctly.
Here is a complete example on how to process IPN messages:
https://gist.github.com/xcommerce-gists/3440401
Instead of toaster#gmail.com (receiver's email) I need company name.
My code:
<form id="paymentform" action="https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" name="paymentform" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_ext-enter">
<input type="hidden" name="redirect_cmd" value="_xclick">
<input type="hidden" name="cn" value="My Dev Site">
<input type="hidden" name="business" value="toaster#gmail.com">
<input type="hidden" name="notify_url" value="http://toaster22.com/checkout/notify">
<input type="hidden" name="return" value="http://toaster22.com/checkout/success">
<input type="hidden" name="cancel_return" value="http://toaster22.com/checkout/cancel">
<input type="hidden" name="rm" value="2">
<input type="hidden" name="handling" value="0.00">
<input type="hidden" name="tax" value="0.00">
<input type="hidden" name="charset" value="utf-8">
<input type="hidden" name="no_shipping" value="1">
<input type="hidden" name="no_note" value="1">
<input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Order #427E-85FF-028E-E351">
<input type="hidden" name="invoice" value="427E-85FF-028E-E351">
<input type="hidden" name="amount" value="23.47">
<input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD">
<input type="hidden" name="address_override" value="0">
</form>
What option can I use for that?
If you mean that you want to display the company name to the buyer in the PayPal flow, you simply use a receiver account that is registered as a Business account. You still identify the receiver by email in your button; nothing needs to change in the button.
PayPal will display the email address for an unregistered seller, the accountholder's name for a personal/premier account, and the business name for a business account.
I am trying to send POST vars to paypal ipn like that:
<form class="form-horizontal paypal-button" method="post" action="https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" target="_top" style="opacity: 1;">
<input type="hidden" name="button" value="buynow">
<input type="hidden" name="business" value="vendedor#estadosbinarios.com">
<input type="hidden" name="quantity" value="1">
<input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="EUR">
<input type="hidden" name="shipping" value="0">
<input type="hidden" name="tax" value="0">
<input type="hidden" name="notify_url" value="http://www.estadosbinarios.com/pagos/paypal_ipn.php">
<input type="hidden" name="return" value="http://www.estadosbinarios.com/pagos/success.php">
<input type="hidden" name="env" value="www.sandbox">
<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick">
<input type="hidden" name="bn" value="JavaScriptButton_buynow">
<!-- Enable override of buyers’s address stored with PayPal . -->
<input type="hidden" name="address_override" value="1">
<input id="nombre" name="first_name" type="text" placeholder="" class="form-control input-md">
<input id="nombre" name="last_name" type="text" placeholder="" class="form-control input-md">
</form>
But Paypal doesn´t care my vars first_name or last_name, paypal is always getting the vars from user account of paypal and overwriting that var.
Is there any way to choose my vars?
When people pay with PayPal through it is indeed going to use the info provided from the shipping address of their account. You can't get around this with Payments Standard like you're using.
You could switch to the Express Checkout API which would give you the option of collecting the buyers name, address, etc. and then passing that over to PayPal in a way that cannot be overridden. This way you'd get whatever they typed into your site instead of relying on PayPal to provide those details.
have a weird problem.As I have a shopping cart on my website I decided to integrate this to paypal. Its working like charm
<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart">
<input type="hidden" name="upload" value="1">
<input type="hidden" name="business" value="seller#test.com">
<input type="hidden" name="item_name_1" value="Item Name 1">
<input type="hidden" name="amount_1" value="1.00">
<input type="hidden" name="shipping_1" value="1.75">
<input type="hidden" name="item_name_2" value="Item Name 2">
<input type="hidden" name="amount_2" value="2.00">
<input type="hidden" name="shipping_2" value="2.50">
<input type="submit" value="PayPal">
</form>
What happens was I decided to not to show item wise descriptions except order total in paypal cehckout page(just like ebay do).
So i change my code as follows
<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick">
<input type="hidden" name="business" value="seller#test.com">
<input type="hidden" name="amount" value="5.40">
<input type="submit" value="PayPal">
</form>
But when i use this,on the checkout page it appears like this
Please help what I have done wrong? Thanks in Advance.
I dont't know how they do that but i know that, Owner of paypal is eBay Inc.
You can display your company logo by just putting one more hidden field
value="http://fedoraproject.org/w/uploads/e/e2/Fedora-infinity-logo-64-64.png">
I have developed a shopping cart and now I am stuck with paypal shopping cart form. I am trying to send multiple items with one single shipping, handling and tax fees. I have created following form but paypal gives me error "Your shopping cart is empty."
Here is my code
<form name="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" ethod="post">
<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart">
<input type="hidden" name="upload" value="1">
<input type="hidden" name="rm" value="2" />
<input type="hidden" name="charset" value="utf-8" />
<input type="hidden" name="business" value="xxxx#xxxxx.com">
<input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD" />
<input type="hidden" name="tax_cart" value="5">
<input type="hidden" name="handling_cart" value="30">
<input type="hidden" name="shipping" value="20">
<input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD" />
<input type="hidden" name="item_name_1" value="Product 1">
<input type="hidden" name="item_number_1" value="1">
<input type="hidden" name="item_amount_1" value="60">
<input type="hidden" name="quantity_1" value="1">
<input type="hidden" name="item_name_2" value="Product 2">
<input type="hidden" name="item_number_2" value="4">
<input type="hidden" name="item_amount_2" value="10">
<input type="hidden" name="quantity_2" value="1">
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Pay with Paypal" />
</form>
The name provided for the amount is incorrect. Instead of
<input type="hidden" name="item_amount_2" value="10">
use
<input type="hidden" name="amount_2" value="10">
The variable "handling_cart" should work. It wouldn't work if you have your account set up not to allow transaction based shipping to override your profile shipping. Double checking your shipping profile in your PayPal account and make sure you have it set to allow transaction based shipping to override your profile.