Paypal Description is Empty

Hi @kimball31

I hope you’re well today!

Currently there is no out of the box option to add description to PayPal payment in Forminator, though it is something that we do plan to implement in one of future releases.

The code that you found operates on WordPress core filter so it’s “Forminator-independent” and should work.

You can simply add it as Must Use plugin on site

– create an empty file with a .php extension (.e.g forminator-paypal-description.php)
– copy and paste code into it
– upload the file to the “/wp-content/mu-plugins” folder

The description can be set in this line of code

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

Best regards,
Adam

I’m hoping to use the form name as the description, something like this:

$body->purchase_units[0]->description = $form_name

I did some testing with your forminator-paypal-description.php plugin, but unfortunately $parsed_args does not include the form name, or anything string I can use to identify the form. So that approach does not work for me.

I found another plugin https://gist.github.com/wpmudev-sls/b8ff5a66d81b44a58e5c1b1ebbfa48f5 that offers access to the to current_url, which is close enough. But when I set $request['purchase_units'][0]['description'] = $current_url it does not show up in PayPal. Is $request['purchase_units'][0]['description'] still the correct property name? Perhaps PayPal changed the spec? The description is not coming through.

My plugin is on Github: https://github.com/Kimball31/Forminator-PayPal-Order-Description-From-URL/blob/main/forminator-paypal-description-from-url.php. Do you see anything wrong with it? Even though it generates and sets the description, the description does not show up in Paypal.

Hi @kimball31,

Could you please update your snippet for the following variable:

 $form_fields['current_url']

With:

$data['current_url']

And then check whether it helps? Please do let us know how that goes.

Regards,

Nithin

A caching issue got in the way of my testing. This mu-plugin is working now.

It converts the url path of the form to a Paypal payment description.

https://github.com/Kimball31/Forminator-PayPal-Order-Description-From-URL/blob/main/forminator-paypal-description-from-url.php

Hi @kimball31

I hope you are doing well.

So everything is working as wished now?

If so, I’m glad that this issue is resolved.

If you have a moment, I would very much appreciate it if you could quickly rate our plugin. This will help us keep the plugin available for free.

https://www.ads-software.com/support/plugin/forminator/reviews/#new-post

Best Regards
Patrick Freitas