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PayFlow Pro Cart Detail in PayPal

Thread began 10/02/2014 9:32 am by keith505 | Last modified 10/03/2014 7:07 am by Jason Byrnes | 1711 views | 3 replies |

keith505

PayFlow Pro Cart Detail in PayPal

The PayPal Payflow pro checkout I recently created is not passing cart details into Paypal as it does when I use Authorize.net. All I see is the payment, but no mention of any product details. Is there a way to make this happen or is it not supported with PayPal?

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Jason ByrnesWebAssist

from the payflow pro documetation, page 68:
https://www.paypalobjects.com/webstatic/en_US/developer/docs/pdf/pp_payflowpro_guide.pdf


  Parameter Description Required Type Length
Retail Transaction Advice Addendum Parameters (for SWIPE transactions)
L_DESCn Description of this line-item (n is a line item No Alpha- 19 number from 1 to 6) numeric
L_AMTn
Amount of this line-item (n is a line item number No from 1 to 6) Must include a decimal and be exact to the cent (42.00, not 42) and exclude comma separators
(1234.56 not 1,234.56) Examples: tip=3.00, convenience charge=2.00
Numeric 12
L_QTYn Quantity of this line-item (n is a line item number No Numeric 3 from 1 to 6)  



so the only info that can be passed for each line item is:
item desc: Max 16 characters
item amount
item quantity

on the confirm page, we use this code to pass that info:

while ( !$eCart1->EOF() )      {
$nextIndex = count($PP_PayPro_itemized[0]);
$PP_PayPro_itemized[0][$nextIndex] = "L_DESC" . strval($cartIndex+1) . "";
$PP_PayPro_itemized[1][$nextIndex] = "".$eCart1->DisplayInfo("Name") ."";
$nextIndex = count($PP_PayPro_itemized[0]);
$PP_PayPro_itemized[0][$nextIndex] = "L_AMT" . strval($cartIndex+1) . "";
$PP_PayPro_itemized[1][$nextIndex] = "".$eCart1->DisplayInfo("Price") ."";
$nextIndex = count($PP_PayPro_itemized[0]);
$PP_PayPro_itemized[0][$nextIndex] = "L_QTY" . strval($cartIndex+1) . "";
$PP_PayPro_itemized[1][$nextIndex] = "".$eCart1->DisplayInfo("Quantity") ."";

$eCart1->MoveNext();
$cartIndex ++;
}



paypal should show the item name, but that is all they allow us to pass.

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keith505

The item name isn't showing up in PayPal. The PM shows the relevant confirm code. The PDF you referenced above says that it is for "American Express." I wonder if these paramaeters apply to the other cards as well?

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Jason ByrnesWebAssist

Hmm, you're right, page 26 shows:
TABLE 4.1 Credit card transaction request parameters

which shows the standard request parameters for a transaction, doesn't look like standard transactions have a way to pass the item information to PayFlow pro.

If you set up the transaction to save the cart information to a database, you can create an admin section to show order history and see the items information for the order.

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