Developer's Guide

PayPal Express Checkout Transaction Processing
PayPal Express Checkout Transaction Parameter Descriptions
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Obtaining the Customer’s Telephone Number During PayPal Checkout
You can request the buyer’s phone number from within the PayPal checkout. You have three
options:
z Not request the telephone number (default)
z Request the telephone number as an optional field
z Require that the buyer enter his or her telephone number to proceed
To set these options, log in to your PayPal account, click Profile, and then click Website
Payment Preferences. The section to change the default is located at the bottom of the screen.
SHIPTOCOUNTRYCODE Customer’s country of residence in the
form of ISO standard 3166 two-character
country codes.
NOTE: Currently US is the only country
code supported.
String 2
PAYERID Unique PayPal customer account
identification number.
String 13
PAYERSTATUS Status of customer. Values are:
verified
unverified
Alpha 10
CUSTOM Free-form field for your own use as set by
you in the Set Express Checkout request.
Alpha-
numeric
256
PHONENUM Account holder’s telephone number. See
“Obtaining the Customer’s Telephone
Number During PayPal Checkout” on
page 58
. The field mask is
xxx-xxx-xxxx (US numbers)
+xxxxxxxxxxx (international numbers)
String 20
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ABLE 6.5 Get Express Checkout Details response parameters (Continued)
Parameter Name Description Type
Max.
Length