It's just the nature of my client's business, they spend a lot of time in paypal as customers pay deposits which then get refunded. So as they are in there every day it would be useful to have as much information available as possible.
Ok. The PayPal driver doesn't support metadata in the same way. It looks like there is a mechanism for setting custom data, but that's not implemented in Shop currently.
It's just the nature of my client's business, they spend a lot of time in paypal as customers pay deposits which then get refunded. So as they are in there every day it would be useful to have as much information available as possible.
Ok. The PayPal driver doesn't support metadata in the same way. It looks like there is a mechanism for setting custom data, but that's not implemented in Shop currently.
Is there any way to customise the "Order #X" that does get passed from Perch to Paypal?
Yes, that's the
description
option.Like this you mean?
Is that not working?
No it doesn't work.
How about when you confirm the payment?
No, afraid not. In Paypal I get:
Ok, so it looks like the answer is no.
Thanks anyway. Is this something that will be considered for the next update of Shop?
Not for the next update, but for some possible future update sure.