Pre-Populate Your Customer's PayPal Sign-Up

Increase customer satisfaction by pre-populating your customer's PayPal payment pages.

If you already have collected your customer's contact information, you can pass it to PayPal to pre-populate the new PayPal member's sign-up page. The variables that let you pass customer contact information are listed below. Your customers’ PayPal sign-up pages will be pre-populated with the information that you pass, but customers can edit it before they sign up.

first_name	First name (Alpha numeric characters only. Max. length = 32)
last_name	Last name (Alpha numeric characters only. Max. length = 64)
address1	Street (1 of 2 fields) (Alpha numeric characters only. Max. length = 100)
address2	Street (2 of 2 fields) (Alpha numeric characters only. Max. length = 100)
city	City (Alpha numeric characters only. Max. length = 100)
state	State (Must be 2 character official abbreviation)
zip	Zip (Numeric char. only. Max. length = 32 characters)
country	Sets the shipping and billing country.
email	Email address. (Max. length = 127)
night_phone_a	The area code for U.S. phone numbers, or the country code for non-U.S. phone numbers. This will pre-populate the buyer's home phone number. (Numeric characters only. Max. length = 3)
night_phone_b	The 3-digit prefix for U.S. phone numbers, or the entire phone number for non-U.S. phone numbers, excluding country code. This will pre-populate the buyer's home phone number. (Numeric characters only. Max. length = 16)
night_phone_c	The 4-digit phone number for U.S. phone numbers. This will pre-populate the buyer's home phone number. (Numeric characters only. Max. length = 4)

The following sample HTML code shows how to include the optional pre-population variables in the code of your payment buttons. The variables and their values need to be generated dynamically by your website and included in the URL to which you send buyers when they try to make a PayPal payment.

The fields shown in boldface are the pre-population fields.