Using the Sandbox Personal account as a fictitious customer

[dovberman]

I set up the IPN to get transaction feedback when a payment is made.

When the Subscribe button is clicked, the credit card payment option is selected.

The credit card payment page asks for address and contact information as required entries.

How to I hide non required entries? I do not need the customer address.

The sandbox customer has the same EMail address as the vendor(developer). This causes the transaction to be rejected.  Can I use a fictitious EMail address for the sandbox customer?

Thanks,

[skier]

You can avoid not prompting the customer for a shipping address during the Checkout Process by including the following line of code in your item button:

<input type="hidden" name="no_shipping" value="1">

However, you cannot hide or alter the fields associated with gathering the credit card information as this information is required by the credit card companies, not PayPal.

As for a fictitious EMail address.   When you create a buyer and seller account in the Sandbox, PayPal generates a fictitious EMail address for each account based on the email address you used to setup your PayPal Sandbox Developer Account.   The buyer or customer email address is not the same as the seller email address.

Regards,

skier

[dovberman]

skier,

Thanks for the prompt reply.

I had overwritten the EMail address that the Sandbox had created for the sandbox customer.

<input type="hidden" name="no_shipping" value="1">

Is the following code correct for hiding the telephone entry?

<input type="hidden" name="no_phone" value="1">

Thanks,

Dovberman

[skier · Accepted solution]

Unfortunately the "no_phone" variable is not valid.   All of the PayPal recognized variables can be found in PayPal's Website Payments Standard Integration Guide which can be here.

Regards,

skier

[dovberman]

You have been a great help.

Thanks,

David Martin