Custom field and recurring payments

Are you using the Express Checkout and/or Payments Pro API to setup those recurring payment profiles, or are you using PayPal Standard subscriptions? The options are a little different depending on that, so let me know and then I can hopefully steer you in the right direction.

Actually, the process is essentially the same either way, but the parameter names are different.

Basically, instead of passing data like that around in the custom parameter, save it all to a local database record. This record may or may not be related to an order ID of some sort that you have, but one way or another that data should be related to a single ID.

That ID can then be passed into the “invoice” parameter when working with Payments Standard, or the “profilereference” parameter when working with the CreateRecurringPayments API.

That invoice parameter will come back in IPN, so then you can hit your database to pull the actual data back out that you need based on that ID.

With Standard it comes back as “invoice” just like you passed it in. With the CRPP API it comes back as “invoice_number” if I remember correctly off the top of my head.

You’ll need to double check those parameter names, but that’s the way you’re going to resolve the issue you’re having. Let me know if you have any questions about that.

This worked perfectly! I was able to pass ‘invoice’ as my input field in my button and it returned ‘invoice’ for my web_accept responses and ‘rp_invoice_id’ for the recurring payments. Thus I was able to pass my parameters through. Thanks for your help!

Glad to hear you got it worked out! If you have a moment to leave a review for the plugin that would be greatly appreciated.