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Request paypal payment with variable recipient

Does paypal support any sort of variable transaction? where the receiver of payment is a variable?

for example, paypal.com/pay/[email protected]&amount=10.00

All of the merchant tools use an internal paypal user id instead of a plain email, which is fair enough as they are merchant tools.

I've been reading up on adaptive-payments but I don't have any need for a middle man, just a simple payn amounttox address.

Solution

  • Sure thing. Like this:

    https://paypal.com/[email protected]&amount=10

    ... which is just a simplified GET version of the (non-encrypted) PayPal button interface POST. Pretty much all the same parameters that you can put in the POST can be used in the GET.