Integration Guide

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IPN and PDT Variables
Basic Information
A
Basic Information
last_name Customer’s last name 64
payer_
business_
name
Customer’s company name, if customer represents a business 127
payer_email Customer’s primary email address. Use this email to provide any
credits.
127
payer_id Unique customer ID. 13
payer_
status
verified
unverified
Customer has a Verified PayPal account.
Customer has an Unverified PayPal account.
contact_
phone
Customer’s telephone number. 20
residence_
country
Two-character ISO 3166 country code 2
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ABLE A.2 IPN and PDT Variables: Basic Information
Variable
Name
Possible
Values Description
Char
Length
business Email address or account ID of the payment recipient (that is, the
merchant). Equivalent to the values of receiver_email (if
payment is sent to primary account) and business set in the
Website Payment HTML.
N OTE: The value of this variable is normalized to lowercase
characters.
127
item_name Item name as passed by you, the merchant. Or, if not passed by
you, as entered by your customer. If this is a shopping cart
transaction, PayPal will append the number of the item (e.g.,
item_name_1, item_name_2, and so forth).
127
item_number Pass-through variable for you to track purchases. It will get
passed back to you at the completion of the payment. If omitted,
no variable will be passed back to you.
127
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ABLE A.1 IPN and PDT Variables: Buyer Information
Variable
Name
Possible
Values Description
Char
Length