Redirect successful donation url with entered amount

[parkerstech]

I have a hosted PayPal donation button on my site. The users enter their own price. When it's complete, I redirect them to a thank you page. I can't for the life of me figure out how to include the amount they donated in that url. I have my thank you url set in the, "Take customers to this URL when they finish checkout" part of step 3. Is there a way to pass the amount entered like, "mysite.com/thankyou.php?amount=the_amount_entered"

I want to display custom text that says, "Thank you for donating $_____". I've searched through the forums, but it doesn't seem like people are using hosted buttons, nor are they using donation buttons. Any thoughts? 

Thank you so much for any guidance!

Parker

[Snow-Cat]

You may want to check out Instant Payment Notification (IPN) - here's a link to the documentation.  The programming is bit out of scope for this community, however, you may be able to get additional assistance from the Merchant Support Community.