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

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Prepopulating Your Customer's PayPal Sign Up 

need to change your cmd value to _ext enter and add the redirect_cmd variable whose 

value should be _xclick. 

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Prepopulation Variables for Website Payments

Character 

Variable

Value

Requirements

Limit

email

Customer s email address

Alphanumeric 

127

first_name

First name

Alphabetic 

32

last_name

Last name

Alphabetic

64

address1

Street (1 of 2 fields)

Alphanumeric 

100

address2

Street (2 of 2 fields)

Alphanumeric 

100

city

City

Alphanumeric 40

state

State

Must be two character official 

32

abbreviation.

zip

Zip

Numeric 32

country

Sets shipping and billing country. See 

Alphabetic 2

Appendix C for allowable country codes.

lc

Defines the buyer s checkout flow 

Alphabetic characters only.

2

language. 

night_

The area code for U.S. phone numbers, or  Numeric characters only. 

3

phone_a

the country code for non U.S. phone 

numbers. This will prepopulate the 

buyer's home phone number.

night_

The 3 digit prefix for U.S. phone 

Numeric characters only. 

3

phone_b

numbers, or the entire phone number for 

non U.S. phone numbers, excluding 

country code. This will prepopulate the 

buyer's home phone number.

night_

The 4 digit phone number for U.S. phone 

Numeric characters only. 

3

phone_c

numbers. This will prepopulate the 

buyer's home phone number.

Website Payments Standard Checkout Integration Guide

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