Customer paid: with card or PayPal?

[vincentkezel]

It's not imperative to my business, but I'd like to be able to tell if the customer paid with their PayPal account, or with a credit/debit card. Preferably I'd like this info available via IPN or return variables on the website. This is not available as far as I know, unless I missed something?

The only ways that I know of finding out is if the customer contacts me with his receipt number (only for cards), or if I download a history csv, which has receipt numbers for all sales with card-only payments.

[snowshoe]

With website payments standard, you're not going to able to collect that type of information.  You would need to upgrade to Pro where as you collect the transaction info first.   Note, this is a bit more programming work on your end.

[vincentkezel]

It took me a while to figure out, but there IS a way to determine if the customer paid with credit/debit (no paypal login) as opposed to using a login to PayPal to pay.

If they paid without logging into PayPal, the IPN post variable receipt_id will exist.... and not otherwise.

[snowshoe]

Good to know.