Adding PayPal to Your Third party Shopping Cart

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Passing the Aggregate Shopping Cart Amount to PayPal

Passing the Aggregate Shopping Cart Amount to PayPal

You can aggregate your entire shopping cart and pass the total amount with PayPal's Buy 

Now code. In other words, you must post a single name for the entire cart and the total price of 

the cart's contents as though it were a purchase of a single item.

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One drawback of this method is that your buyers will not be able to see the individual 

items in their carts. In addition, you cannot change our variable names, nor can you add 

your own variable names. 

The following HTML is identical to 

 HTML for Passing Individual Item Detail to PayPal  on 

page 78

 except the individual items' amounts and item names have been aggregated into a 

single item and amount.

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XAMPLE

0.1 HTML for Passing Individual Item Detail to PayPal

Website Payments Standard Checkout Integration Guide

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