I am looking at the code for the IPN and I am only seeing item_number and item_name. I am using a 3rd party shopping cart with multiple items that I have passed as item_number_1, item_name_1, etc. Is there a variable that indicates how many item numbers that are being passed back or is everything passed back as an aggregate amount?

I would like to do the same as SweetP - I have a 3rd party shopping cart BizCrafter and would like to have a direct to Pay Pal checkout; Pay Pal can be selected as a payment option after logging in to our site and setting up a user name and password; would like to give potential customers the option of esentialy paying for what ever is in their shoppping cart (shipping variables included) I contacted BizCrafter and they said it was possible to send shopping cart info to Pay Pal but that buyer would have to fill out contact/shipping information first on our site (doesn't this defeat the purpose, one of the reasons of using Pay Pal, efficiency/simplified payment?)I am no where profecient as a programer, would be willing to hire a developer.

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[br]sweetp,

'num_cart_items' is the number of items in cart. Check https://www.paypal.com/en_US/pdf/ipn.pdf page 7

Paulam
PayPal Tech Support Agent
PayPal an eBay company
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