how to pass Paypal product description ?

Hello @physiotek !

Hope you’re having a good day!

Here are the steps you’ll need to perform in this case:

– download the mu-plugin to your computer using the raw view: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/wpmudev-sls/299bc833c12b842ea35c70b69515abc3/raw/b1d1d968d365a5ded24257e61bd3120a06b85968/forminator-paypal-transaction-description.php

– in the form with the payment, add a new hidden field with the description you want to see as the value

– note the hidden field’s name – it will be something like hidden-1

– in the mu-plugin on line 182 please make sure the name of the field matches
what you have in the form – by default is hidden-1 and should work in most cases: https://gist.github.com/wpmudev-sls/299bc833c12b842ea35c70b69515abc3#file-forminator-paypal-transaction-description-php-L182

– upload the mu-plugin to wp-content/mu-plugins on your site

Hope that helps!

Kind regards,
Pawel

Hi @physiotek

I hope you are doing well and safe!

We haven’t heard from you in a while, I’ll mark this thread as resolved.

Feel free to let us know if you have any additional questions or problems.

Best Regards
Patrick Freitas

Sorry for the delay.
Just got the time to test your suggestion and i must say it works like a charm !
Thank you very much ??
Eric

Hi,
I said it was working but it realised it is only partially working.
In fact it works fine with the brave browser.
However the description is not passed to paypal when i use Chrome.
I tried to whitelist my cookies, desactivated security plugin, clear my cache.
But nothing seems to resolve the problem.
Do you have an idea ?
Thanks,
Eric

Hi @physiotek

Thank you for response!

Could you try this code instead?

https://gist.github.com/wpmudev-sls/d0298dfc427dfe83493d248dfe6dd1a4

To add it to site:

– remove the one that you added previously (you can remove the hidden field from the form as well)
– download the code as “forminator-paypal-description.php” file, using the “Raw” button there (just like last time)
– edit it and in this line

$body->purchase_units[0]->description = "Some description";

replace “Some description” with the actual description that you want to pass over to PayPal.

– optionally, if you do not want to remove shipping option from PayPal, remove these lines (if you keep them, a “No shipping” will be applied)

// Add NO_SHIPPING.
$body->application_context = new stdClass();
$body->application_context->shipping_preference = 'NO_SHIPPING';

– save the file and upload it to “/wp-content/mu-plugins” folder of your site’s WordPress installation

Let us know if it works for you, please.

Best regards,
Adam

Hi,
Thanks for your reply.
From what i understand this code will create the same description for every forms on my website. Unfortunately i have 2 forms and my accountant require that they have a different description.
Is there an other solution ?
Thanks,
Eric

Hi, sorry for bringing this old thread back up, but this is the exact same issue I am having. The fixed item description won’t work for me. How about at least setting the description to the form title or post/page title? I can see in the plugin code this line:

$product_description = esc_html( self::get_property( ‘product_description’, $field, ” ) );

Maybe that can be set? I know in another post from a year ago, you said the developers were working on this…sounds like it would be a simple field to add to the PayPal Field.

HELP US!!!

Hi @piperpilot

I hope you are doing well.

Could you try this solution?

1 Download this version: https://gist.github.com/wpmudev-sls/b8ff5a66d81b44a58e5c1b1ebbfa48f5

2- Extract the file then upload to wp-content/mu-plugins folder. If that folder
doesn’t exist you can simply create it. If you are not familiar with
mu-plugins you can read more about them here : https://premium.wpmudev.org/docs/using-wordpress/installing-wordpress-plugins/#installing-mu-plugins

3- go to your admin panel and set two hidden fields as Custom Value in your form.

4- Set the hidden-1 value to paypal_description. Make sure you input the same words – case sensitive.

5- set the hidden-2 value to your own description.

6- update your form.

@physiotek Sorry for the delay here, it seems we missed your reply but the above solution also applies to your case.

@piperpilot If you have any additional questions, could you create a new thread? Per forum rules, we don’t spam the thread starter.

Best Regards
Patrick Freitas