PayFlow Pro Custom Field for Phone Number

Hello,

I’ve setup PayPal Pro-forms with Payflow Pro Recurring Billing and it works great, but I really need to capture the customer’s phone number and pass it to PayPal in the Recurring billing profile. I set up a Registration/Profile field with a unique ID of ‘phone_number’. I then added the following to paypal-checkout-pf-in.inc.php around line 420:

$paypal["PHONENUM"] = $post_vars["phone_number"];

Unfortunately, it’s not working :(

I realize this may be a bit outside your support policy, but I think it’s probably just a few lines of code, so I’m hoping you can help. It would really make my week.

Thanks in advance.

p.s. yes, it’s one of the new Payflow accounts.

Hi Adam,

To the best of my knowledge, it’s not possible to pass the phone number to PayPal like that. PayPal’s API only allows for passing basic information about the transaction itself, including billing information which is only used for validation purposes (it doesn’t actually get stored anywhere on PayPal).

Hi Raam,

Thanks for the reply. It actually is possible and I was able to figure it out. I had to add an extra field to the checkout form and hack a couple files, but it works.

Best,

~ Adam

I stand corrected. :) Thanks for the update and glad to hear you got it working.