Prevent customer from changing Quantity in cart or remove Quantity field

[zapman]

I use the Paypal shopping cart on my website.  Since Paypal made a change to the shopping cart allowing customers to hit the + sign to increase quantity it has caused a lot of confusion with my customers.  I do NOT want customers to be able to change the quantity.  Is there a way that I can keep the customers from changing this field or remove it from the shopping cart?  The quantity field should always be a 1. 

[MTS_Ciaran]

So, the only solution I can propose would be to use a cart upload button which means you would upload the entire cart contents at once. 

On your side you would need to establish a cart, so that cart items are stored during the shopping experience, once customers are ready to checkout, the cart upload button would send everything over to PayPal at once heres an example:

<form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" >
<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart">
<input type="hidden" name="business" value="mystore@store.com">
<input type="hidden" name="lc" value="IE">
<input type="hidden" name="item_name_1" value="Sample Item 1">
<input type="hidden" name="amount_1" value="10.00">
<input type="hidden" name="item_name_2" value="Sample Item 2">
<input type="hidden" name="amount_2" value="10.00">
<input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="EUR">
<input type="hidden" name="button_subtype" value="products">
<input type="hidden" name="no_note" value="0">
<input type="hidden" name="cn" value="Add special instructions to the seller">
<input type="hidden" name="no_shipping" value="2">
<input type="hidden" name="upload" value="1">
<input type="hidden" name="bn" value="PP-ShopCartBF:btn_cart_LG.gif:NonHosted">
<input type="image" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_cart_LG.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!">
<img alt="" border="0" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1">
</form>

[zapman]

What do you mean by establish a cart?  You mean write shopping cart software.  That doesn't sound like a simple task.  Did you put in a request with paypal for the option to disable the quantity field in the shopping cart ?

[MTS_Ciaran]

You're right, it would mean setting up a cart with session variables etc. or you could use a third party cart software e.g. osCommerce for example. 

I have submitted a feature request, but as I say if it gets implemented it could take sometime before it moves forward. 

[zapman]

Thank you for submitting the change request.

[jdisimon]

Having this capability would be very helpful. Is there any update on this feature request, or some other work-around (besides implementing a shopping cart) to disable the "quantity +/-" capability of the Paypal shopping cart?

[integritivity]

I am struggling with this issue as well and it is ridiculous.

The code to upload the entire cart at once DOESN'T WORK UNLESS YOU ORDER EACH ITEM!  It breaks if you send a quantity of zero. So the result is that if I have three items for sale, the customer has to order one of each. Unacceptable.