Increase your sales by pre-populating your customer's PayPal payment pages.
If you have already collected your customer's information, you can pass this information to PayPal to pre-populate the first page of a new customer's sign-up. The fields and parameters are listed below. You can pass all or none of this data. While your customer's sign-up page will be pre-populated, it will still be editable.
To pass this information to the PayPal payment pages, post the variable name and the associated data to PayPal in the HTML in the form of "variable name = value". You will also need to change your cmd value to '_ext-enter' and add a new variable, 'redirect_cmd', whose value should be '_xclick'. Please see the sample code below for an example.
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first_name |
First name (Alpha numeric char. only. Max. length = 32) |
last _name |
Last name (Alpha numeric char. only. Max. length = 64) |
address1 |
Street (1 of 2 fields) (Alpha numeric char. only. Max. length = 100) |
address2 |
Street (2 of 2 fields) (Alpha numeric char. only. Max. length = 100) |
city |
City (Alpha numeric char. only. Max. length = 100 ) |
state |
State (Must be 2 character official abbreviation) |
zip |
Zip (Numeric char. only. Max. length = 32 characters) |
lc |
Country |
email |
Email address |
night_phone_a |
Home phone (1 of 3 fields) (Numeric char. only. Max. length = 3 characters) |
night_phone_b |
Home phone (2 of 3 fields) (Numeric char. only. Max. length = 3 characters) |
night_phone_c |
Home phone (3 of 3 fields) (Numeric char. only. Max. length = 4 characters) |
day_phone_a |
Work phone (1 of 3 fields) (Numeric char. only. Max. length = 3 characters) |
day_phone_b |
Work phone (2 of 3 fields) (Numeric char. only. Max. length = 3 characters) |
day_phone_c |
Work phone (3 of 3 fields) (Numeric char. only. Max. length = 4 characters) |
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The following sample HTML code shows how the optional pre-population fields would be included in your payment buttons. The field entries would need to be dynamically generated by your website and included in the URL to which your customers are sent when they try to make a PayPal payment.
The fields shown in red are the pre-population fields.
The fields listed above would generate this HTML link, which would pre-populate your customer's PayPal payment pages. The optional pre-population fields (shown in red) pass this information to the PayPal payment pages, post the variable name and the associated data to PayPal in the HTML in the form of "variable name = value".
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<FORM ACTION="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" METHOD="POST">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="cmd" VALUE="_ext-enter">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="redirect_cmd" VALUE="_xclick">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="business" VALUE="recipient@paypal.com">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="undefined_quantity" VALUE="1">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="item_name" VALUE="hat">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="item_number" VALUE="123">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="amount" VALUE="15.00">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="shipping" VALUE="1.00">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="shipping2" VALUE="0.50">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="currency_code" VALUE="USD">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="first_name" VALUE="John">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="last_name" VALUE="Doe">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="address1" VALUE="9 Elm Street">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="address2" VALUE="Apt 5">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="city" VALUE="Berwyn">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="state" VALUE="PA">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="zip" VALUE="19312">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="lc" VALUE="US">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="email" VALUE="buyer@domain.com">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="night_phone_a" VALUE="610">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="night_phone_b" VALUE="555">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="night_phone_c" VALUE="1234">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="day_phone_a" VALUE="610">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="day_phone_b" VALUE="555">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="day_phone_c" VALUE="1222">
<INPUT TYPE="image" SRC="http://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/x-click-but01.gif" BORDER="0" NAME="submit" ALT=Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!>
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