Product id appended to product name on paypal page

[ebaobao]

Hello,

When a user adds an item to cart and then does a paypal express checkout, they are redirected to paypal's page listing the product like this:

SAMPLE 6 [185]
Item number: 1616
Item price: $10.00
Quantity: 1

Notice how the product id "185" is next to the name. However since there is also an item number: 1616, isn't it confusing to have both? Is there a way to remove product id there? What would be the best solution to handle this? In my opinion, if the product id wasn't there, then it would look perfect, is this possible?

[DrByte]

The product id is there to differentiate in case you've got multiple items of the same name. Many stores have the same name in multiple configurations, and this is important to help track back to which actual item was really purchased.

[ebaobao]

Ok that makes sense. I guess I'll just put the model number the same as its product id for consistency purposes. Thanks for the reply drbyte.

[AlexTheDude]

I realize this topic is nearly a decade old however it is still relevant today. I recently purchased a business and its website runs on Zen Cart v1.5.7d. I noticed that the product id is appended to the product name in PayPal.

My website has unique names for all items and it will always have unique names for all items, so I do not want the product id appended to the product name in PayPal.

I found some code in some payment files that I thought may be causing the product id to append the product name, however, when I edited the code and ran test transactions the id was still after the product name in PayPal.

I am sure that I could figure this out on my own however it may take many hours to do so, so I am wondering if anyone here knows which file to edit and what to edit in the file?

[lat9]

I realize this topic is nearly a decade old however it is still relevant today. I recently purchased a business and its website runs on Zen Cart v1.5.7d. I noticed that the product id is appended to the product name in PayPal.

My website has unique names for all items and it will always have unique names for all items, so I do not want the product id appended to the product name in PayPal.

I found some code in some payment files that I thought may be causing the product id to append the product name, however, when I edited the code and ran test transactions the id was still after the product name in PayPal.

I am sure that I could figure this out on my own however it may take many hours to do so, so I am wondering if anyone here knows which file to edit and what to edit in the file?

Since you didn't indicate which variant of PayPal is being used, I'm guessing paypalwpp (PayPal Express Checkout). If that's the case, edit /includes/modules/payment/paypalwpp.php, finding this 'chunk':

      $optionsLI["L_PAYMENTREQUEST_0_NUMBER$k"] = $order->products[$i]['model'];
      $optionsLI["L_PAYMENTREQUEST_0_NAME$k"]   = $order->products[$i]['name'] . ' [' . (int)$order->products[$i]['id'] . ']';
      // Append *** if out-of-stock.
      $optionsLI["L_PAYMENTREQUEST_0_NAME$k"]  .= ((zen_get_products_stock($order->products[$i]['id']) - $order->products[$i]['qty']) < 0 ? STOCK_MARK_PRODUCT_OUT_OF_STOCK : '');
      // if there are attributes, loop thru them and add to description
      if (isset($order->products[$i]['attributes']) && sizeof($order->products[$i]['attributes']) > 0 ) {
        for ($j=0, $n2=sizeof($order->products[$i]['attributes']); $j<$n2; $j++) {
          $optionsLI["L_PAYMENTREQUEST_0_NAME$k"] .= "\n " . $order->products[$i]['attributes'][$j]['option'] .
                                        ': ' . $order->products[$i]['attributes'][$j]['value'];
        } // end loop
      } // endif attribute-info

... and changing to

      $optionsLI["L_PAYMENTREQUEST_0_NUMBER$k"] = $order->products[$i]['model'];
//-bof-site-specific change: Removing products_id suffix.
//      $optionsLI["L_PAYMENTREQUEST_0_NAME$k"]   = $order->products[$i]['name'] . ' [' . (int)$order->products[$i]['id'] . ']';
      $optionsLI["L_PAYMENTREQUEST_0_NAME$k"]   = $order->products[$i]['name'];
//-eof-site-specific change
      // Append *** if out-of-stock.
      $optionsLI["L_PAYMENTREQUEST_0_NAME$k"]  .= ((zen_get_products_stock($order->products[$i]['id']) - $order->products[$i]['qty']) < 0 ? STOCK_MARK_PRODUCT_OUT_OF_STOCK : '');
      // if there are attributes, loop thru them and add to description
      if (isset($order->products[$i]['attributes']) && sizeof($order->products[$i]['attributes']) > 0 ) {
        for ($j=0, $n2=sizeof($order->products[$i]['attributes']); $j<$n2; $j++) {
          $optionsLI["L_PAYMENTREQUEST_0_NAME$k"] .= "\n " . $order->products[$i]['attributes'][$j]['option'] .
                                        ': ' . $order->products[$i]['attributes'][$j]['value'];
        } // end loop
      } // endif attribute-info

[AlexTheDude]

Thank you very much lat9.

I checked and my site is using PayPal Express Checkout. I made the change that you prescribed, ran an order and paid for it with PayPal, and it works perfectly with no more product id on the PayPal payment.

I had done the exact same coding change to the wrong file which is why it did not previously work when I tried it on my own. I previously changed the paypal.php file instead of the paypalwpp.php file.

I did not want to keep making and refunding PayPal payments between my own PayPal accounts fearing that it would trigger some sort of security warning with PayPal and get my accounts frozen or something like that, so that is why I asked for help here instead of keep trying on my own.

Anyways thank you so much for your help lat9, and being this is the first time that I have used the Zen Cart forum I am very impressed with it.

[dbltoe]

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