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Pass Admin Name to PayPal

  1. aliguori
    Member

    Here's my question, or maybe it's a feature request:

    I'm having a problem with passing item name information to PayPal. Essentially, if the item name is a specific thing with a specific price, it passes through just fine with no input from me, notifies correctly, etc. However, when I make something that has an amount, it just comes through as "Amount" or whatever. Is there a way to populate the data that is passed to PayPal with the admin label of an amount field rather than what the field is explicitly called (which is always going to be something like "Amount," "Number of Registrations," or something equally unhelpful?

    Posted 12 years ago on Wednesday October 5, 2011 | Permalink
  2. The way the Product Fields work, here is what is passed to PayPal.

    When using a Single Product field type the Field Label is passed as the Product Name.

    When using a User Defined Price field type the Field Label is passed as the Product Name.

    When using a Drop Down or Radio Button field type the Choice Label of the drop down or radio button selection is the Product Name.

    Currently there is no way to pass the Admin Label as the Product Name, although it is a good suggestion and we can look at making this change in a future enhancement to the PayPal Add-On.

    Posted 12 years ago on Wednesday October 5, 2011 | Permalink
  3. aliguori
    Member

    Thanks for the quick reply. Yeah, the way things are set up, users have to kind of see the same thing several times if admins want good info to come through PayPal. So you have something like:

    FELLOWS DINNER REGISTRATION

    Amount of FELLOWS DINNER REGISTRATIONS:

    vs. something cleaner, like

    FELLOWS DINNER REGISTRATION

    Amount: __ (admin label: FELLOWS DINNER REGISTRATION)

    Again, thanks for your help.

    Posted 12 years ago on Thursday October 6, 2011 | Permalink

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