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
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IPN and PDT Variables
Subscriptions Variables
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mc_amount2 Amount of payment for trial period 2, regardless of
currency (optional).
mc_amount3 Amount of payment for regular subscription period,
regardless of currency.
mc_currency See
introduction.
For non-payment subscriptions IPNs (i.e.,
txn_type
= signup, cancel, failed, eot, or
modify), this is the currency of the subscription.
For payment IPNs, it is the currency of the payment
(i.e., txn_type = subscr_payment)
recurring Indicates whether regular rate recurs (1 is yes,
blank is no).
reattempt Indicates whether reattempts should occur upon
payment failures (1 is yes, blank is no).
retry_at Date PayPal will retry a failed subscription
payment.
recur_times The number of payment installments that will occur
at the regular rate.
username (optional) Username generated by PayPal and
given to subscriber to access the subscription.
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password (optional) Password generated by PayPal and given
to subscriber to access the subscription (password
will be encrypted).
subscr_id ID generated by PayPal for the subscriber. 19
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ABLE B.7 Subscriptions Variables
Variable
Possible
Values Description
Character
Limit