User Guide

Button Manager NVP API April 2012 61
HTML Variables for PayPal Payments Standard
HTML Variables for Recurring Payments Buttons
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HTML Variables for Recurring Payments Buttons
Recurring Payments buttons are:
 Subscribe buttons
 Automatic Billing buttons
handling_ cart Optional Single handling fee charged cart-wide. If handling_cart
is used in multiple Add to Cart buttons, the
handling_cart value of the first item is used.
item_name_
x Required The name associated with item x. To pass an aggregate name
for the entire cart, use item_name_1.
Applies only to the Cart Upload command.
paymentaction Optional Indicates whether the payment is a final sale or an
authorization for a final sale, to be captured later.
Allowable values are:
 sale
 authorization
 order
The default value is sale. Set the value to authorization
to place a hold on the PayPal account for the authorized
amount. Set the value to order to authorize the payment
without placing a hold on the PayPal account.
IMPORTANT: If you set paymentaction to order, use
the Authorization & Capture API to
authorize and capture the payment
payments. The Merchant Services on the
PayPal website let you capture payments
only for authorizations, not for orders.
shopping_url Optional The URL of the page on the merchant website that buyers go
to when they click the Continue Shopping button on the
PayPal Shopping Cart page.
upload See
description
Upload the contents of a third-party shopping cart or a
custom shopping cart.
This variable must be set as follows:
upload="1"
The alternatives are the add="1" variable and the
display="1" variables, which are used with the PayPal
Shopping Cart.
1
Name
Required
or
Optional Description
Character
Length