HTML Samples and Buy Now, Donations, and Shopping Cart Variables

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PayPal Shopping Cart HTML and Variables

2. Add the variable upload by adding the following line between the 
 and 
 

tags:

3. Define item details 

For each of the following item specific parameters, define a new set of values that correspond 

to each item that was purchased via your third party cart. Append _x to the variable name, 

where x is the item number, starting with 1 and increasing by one for each item included in the 

shopping cart.

The minimum required HTML for your post to PayPal looks similar to the following. 

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XAMPLE

A.1 HTML for Passing Individual Item Detail to PayPal

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Variables for Individual Items in Third Party Shopping Carts

Character 

Name

Description

Length

item_name_x

Required for item #x. Name of item #x in the cart. Must be 

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alphanumeric.

item_number_x

Pass through variable for you to track purchases or 

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donations, passed back to you at payment completion. If 

omitted, no variable will be passed back to you.

amount_x

Required for item #x. Price of the item #x.

quantity_x

Required for item #x. Quantity of the item #x.

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The value for 

quantity

_x must be a positive 

integer. Null, zero, or negative numbers are not 

allowed.

shipping_x

The cost of shipping the first piece (quantity of 1) of item 

#x.

shipping2_x

The cost of shipping each additional piece (quantity of 2 or 

above) of item #x.

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