Integration Guide

Website Payments Standard HTML Variables
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104 November 2005 Website Payments Standard Checkout Integration Guide
tax Transaction-based tax override variable. Set this to a flat tax
amount to apply to the transaction regardless of the buyer’s
location. This value overrides any tax settings set in your Profile.
Default: Profile tax settings (if any) apply.
Optional
tax_cart
Cart-wide tax, overriding any individual item tax_x value Optional
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ABLE A.6 HTML Variables Specific to Shopping Carts
Name
Required
or
Optional Description Allowable Values
amount Required Price of the item or the total price of all items in the
shopping cart.
Any valid currency
amount
business Required Email address for your PayPal account.
NOTE: The value of this variable is normalized to
lowercase characters.
Your email address
handling_
cart
Optional Single handling fee to be charged cart-wide. If
handling_cart is used in multiple Add to Cart
buttons, the handling_cart value of the first
item is used.
Any valid currency
amount
item_name Required Name of the item or a name for the entire Shopping
Cart
paymentaction Optional Indicates whether transaction is an authorization to
be captured later with PayPal Authorization &
Capture on https://www.paypal.com/
.
For more information, see the PayPal
Authorization & Capture Integration Guide
.
authorization
upload Required Indicates the use of third-party shopping cart
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TABLE A.7 HTML Variables: Individual Items in Third-Party Shopping Carts
Name
Required
or
Optional Description
Character
Length
amount_x Required Price of item #
x.
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ABLE A.5 HTML Variables: Transaction Information
Name Description
Required or
Optional
Character
Length