User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- PayPal Payments Overview
- Getting Started
- PayPal Account Optional
- Creating Buy Now and Donation Buttons
- Creating Shopping Cart Buttons
- Adding PayPal to Your Third- party Shopping Cart
- Custom Payment Pages
- Calculating Shipping, Handling, and Tax
- Creating Customer Contact Telephone
- Auto Return
- Backend Integration - Payment Notifications
- Using Multiple Currencies
- Language Encoding for Your Data
- Testing
- Processing eChecks
- Security
- HTML Samples
- IPN and PDT Variables
- About These Tables of Variables
- test_ipn Variable in Sandbox
- IPN Variables in All Posts
- Buyer Information
- Basic Information
- Advanced and Custom Information
- Shopping Cart Information
- Currency and Currency Exchange
- Auctions
- Mass Payment
- Subscriptions Variables
- Dispute Notification Variables
- PDT-Specific Variables
- Country Codes
IPN and PDT Variables
Mass Payment
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Mass Payment
auction_
multi_item
This is a counter used for multi-item auction payments. It allows
you to cumstomize your script to only count the mc_gross
or
payment_gross
for the first IPN you receive from a multi-
item auction (auction_multi_item), since each item from the
auction will generate an Instant Payment Notification showing
the amount for the entire auction.
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ABLE B.6 IPN and PDT Variables: Mass Pay
Variable Name Possible Values Description
txn_type masspay This payment was sent via Mass Pay
payment_
status
Completed
Denied
Processed
Completed: For Mass Pay payments, this means that all of your payments
have been claimed, or after a period of 30 days, unclaimed payments have been
returned to you.
Denied: For Mass Pay payments, this means that your funds were not sent and
the Mass Payment was not initiated. This may have been caused by lack of
funds.
Processed: Your Mass Payment has been processed and all payments have
been sent.
payment_
date
For Mass Pay payments, the first IPN is the date/time when the record set is
processed and the second IPN is the date/time when all payments are
completed/returned
masspay_
txn_id_x
For Mass Pay payments, a unique transaction ID generated by the PayPal
system, where x is the record number
receiver_
email_
x
For Mass Pay payments, the primary email address of the payment recipient,
where
x is the record number
mc_gross_
x Transaction-
specific for
Multiple
Currencies
The gross amount for the amount, where
x is the record number
mc_fee_
x Transaction-
specific for
Multiple
Currencies
For Mass Pay payments, the transaction fee associated with the payment,
where
x is the record number
T
ABLE B.5 IPN and PDT Variables: Auctions
Variable Name Possible Values Description
Character
Length