PayPal Adaptive Payments - description field

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I'm using paypal adaptive payments for my website. I have different sellers and different products but the problem is that when a user buy something from my website in the payment summary there is the name and surname of the seller instead of the product name! enter image description here

I'm looking for a parameter to pass to display the product name instead of my name and the seller's name. I use PHP to redirect to the paypal's page.

Thank you!!

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stackoverflow.com/questions/18463476/… according to answer here there is no way. I hope it's wrong. – Marek
github.com/jpablobr/active_paypal_adaptive_payment/issues/41 according to this source, items information can be added when using the Embedded flow (the one through popup window or lightbox). – Marek
Can you show the form being passed with PHP? – David Nguyen
It looks like you are using PayPal’s platform (website) for checkout and not integrating it with your website. What advantage does Adaptive Payments have for you over Express Checkout? – mseifert
@Luca Pennisi check out my answer and let me know if works.. – Dimitris Bouzikas

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Here is an official reply from PayPal I got today:

You can display line item details for the Embedded flow only. The Embedded flow uses either a lightbox or a minibrowser for the checkout pages. The item details you set with SetPaymentOptions are only displayed to the customer via this Embedded flow.

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With Adaptive Payments you will need to use SetPaymentOptions API Operation in order to modify those fields (line item, business name, etc), you can find all the variables here.

You can find an example here: https://github.com/paypal/adaptivepayments-sdk-php/blob/master/samples/SetPaymentOptions.php

Line item works with embedded flow only.