Transfer Payment Purpose

Hi @psasso

I hope you’re well today!

Currently payment description/additional custom information can only be added to Stripe payment field but not PayPal.

This is a feature planned to be added in future but I don’t have ETA>

As a workaround, you could use a bit of additional custom code. You can find it here:

https://gist.github.com/wpmudev-sls/5aa865cd8cb9f2505a2f258569178ae2

To add it to the site:

– download ZIP file and extract it to your local drive
– upload the “forminator-paypal-payment-description.php” file from inside that ZIP to the “/wp-content/mu-plugins” folder of your site’s WordPRess install
– and then edit the file

a) in this line of the code

if ( $form_id == 6 ) { //Please change the form ID.

replace number 6 with an ID of your form; form ID is the number you can see in form’s shortcode

b) in this line

$request['purchase_units'][0]['description'] = "Your description goes here";

you can set your custom description that would be passed over to PayPal.

Best regards,
Adam

Hi @psasso

The code that I shared is for a single form only. If you want to use it for multiple forms and set different descriptions for different forms, it should be slightly modified. This version should do the trick:

<?php 
if ( ! defined( 'ABSPATH' ) ) {
	exit; // Exit if accessed directly.
}

add_filter( 'forminator_paypal_create_order_request', 'wpmudev_add_description_paypal', 10, 2 );
function wpmudev_add_description_paypal( $request, $data ) {
    
	
	/* set Form IDs and descriptions below, following example format; 
	on the left - it's a form ID
	0n the right - it's purpose description;
	note that last line doesn't have comma at the end */
	
	$purposes = array(
		'6' => "Description for form ID 6",
		'123' => "Purpose for form ID 123"
	);
	
	
	
	$form_id = !empty( $data['form_id'] ) ? $data['form_id'] : '' ;
    
	if ( array_key_exists( $form_id, $purposes ) ) {
        $request['purchase_units'][0]['description'] = $purposes[$form_id];   
    }
    return $request;
}

Note that this should be used instead of the one I shared previously and it has slightly different configuration – you would set form IDs and descriptions all in this part

$purposes = array(
		'6' => "Description for form ID 6",
		'123' => "Purpose for form ID 123"
	);

Best regards,
Adam