paypal email receipt (ECO) using ecart 6, fields and values

On the Paypal email confirmation, the itemised description displays the Product Name and the Item number with its productid.
Is it possible to change this information ?

For example, instead of displaying Item number and its id, I would like to display any options selected, and a description

I thought I found the source of the data in confirm.php, but changing it doesn't seem to have changed anything

//$WA_PP_ECO_Do_itemized[0][$nextIndex] = "Number" . strval($cartIndex+1) . "";
	$WA_PP_ECO_Do_itemized[0][$nextIndex] = "Option" . strval($cartIndex+1) . "";
	//$WA_PP_ECO_Do_itemized[1][$nextIndex] = "".$hgbCart->DisplayInfo("ID")  ."";
	$WA_PP_ECO_Do_itemized[1][$nextIndex] = "".$hgbCart->DisplayInfo("Option")  ."";

Attached is a screen dump of the paypal confirmation email

No, the variables paypal will accept and show in the email are:

Amount
Name
Number
Quantity

you will not nbe able to remove the item ID from the email.

what you can do, is concatenate the options onto the item name:

$WA_PP_ECO_Do_itemized[0][$nextIndex] = "Name" . strval($cartIndex+1) . "";
$WA_PP_ECO_Do_itemized[0][$nextIndex] = "".$hgbCart->DisplayInfo("Name") ." Option:"".$hgbCart->DisplayInfo("Option") ."";

Ok, I can concatenate no problem.

However my discount, when applied, is also showing up as an item with an id of 0.

Can I not get rid of this ?

No, there is not a way to get rid of the discount in the email.

There is very little you can control about how the email receipt sent by paypal displays.

Just doing some final testing on this, and got the concatenation working fine,

The value is passed to Paypal (ECO) successfully, and the product description appears throughout the transaction

However, when the email receipt is sent from Paypal, the description field is empty.

I queried this with Paypal, who stated that "there is no value passed for the product description which caused the missing product information on the email receipt" and i should take it up with Webassist,

The product description is clearly there during the transaction, (I think they are escalating the case) - do you know of any disallowed characters or other reason why the value is not being passed to the receipt ?

Thanks

Until recently, paypal did not offer an item description field, so eCart has not been passing that information.

I have added a feature request to have that added in a future update.

for now, the description would need to be concatenated to the name, but be aware, the name has a limit of 127 characters.

That's interesting to know.

I suspect there is something else afoot with paypal - I await their reply.

Have you got a link to the paypal update info for description, I may have a go at it.

this is the paypal documentation for the Do Express Checkout soap API:
https://developer.paypal.com/docs/classic/api/merchant/DoExpressCheckoutPayment_API_Operation_SOAP/


to add the description is going to be a bit complex, it would need to be added to the paypal express server behavior code and also in the PP_ECO_PHP.php file.

Hi Jason,

I had a reply from paypal.

They suggest the problem lies with using the older API script 63.0 and that I should use the newer one instead

"Through the investigation that has been made on the issue raised by you, I am afraid it is not the problem with notification email but something on the older API version used which is 63.0.
This might be the reason why the item description can't be passed to us successfully. I would suggest you to change newer API version which is 115.0 and try again."

I would have thought that if this was truly the case, then everyone using this script would be affected ?

I'm kind of stuck now, in that my code doesn't generate an accurate email receipt, (though the transaction is successful)

At this time, the only work around would be to concatenate the description to the Name that is passed.

Like I said, I have logged a feature request to have the description added to paypal express