User Guide

HTML Variables for PayPal Payments Standard
HTML Variables for Recurring Payments Buttons
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64 April 2012 Button Manager NVP API
Automatic Billing Button HTML Variables
modify Optional Modification behavior.
Allowable values are:
 0 – allows subscribers only to sign up for new
subscriptions
 1 – allows subscribers to sign up for new subscriptions
and modify their current subscriptions
 2 – allows subscribers to modify only their current
subscriptions
The default value is 0.
1
usr_manage Optional Set to 1 to have PayPal generate usernames and initial
passwords for subscribers.
1
Name
Required
or
Optional Description
Character
Length
max_text Optional A description of the automatic billing plan. The button
creation tool uses the same value that you enter in the
Description field. Your button passes the description to
PayPal to augment the item name in authorization notices
and transaction details. If you write the HTML code for your
button manually, the value of max_text and the text above
the button can differ.
set_customer_li
mit
Required Specify whether to let buyers enter maximum billing limits
in a text box or choose from a list of maximum billing limits
that you specify.
Allowable values are:
 max_limit_own – your button displays a text box for
buyers to enter their own maximums above a minimum
billing limit that you set with the min_amount variable.
 max_limit_defined – your button displays a
dropdown menu of product options with prices to let
buyers choose their maximum billing limits.
min_amount Optional The minimum monthly billing limit, if you have one. Valid
only if set_customer_limit = max_limit_own.
Name
Required
or
Optional Description
Character
Length