I'm setting up my first shopping cart and don't want to "sell" something to myself to find out exactly what PayPal will email/send to me when a customer buys something from me. And, I can't find anything about this on the forum.

I assume that the customer's name and address, plus possibly their telephone number will come to me. But what product information comes my way? Are products that customers order identified by the product's item Title, the product's Short Description, or something else. I'm selling CD's and need to know if I should assign product numbers or something to each product to keep things straight for myself for inventory and fulfillment purposes.

Paypal will send you an email letting you know the product has been sold. This is more or less what it will look like:

You received a payment of £30.00 GBP from xxxx
Thanks for using PayPal. You can now send any items. To see all the transaction details, log in to your PayPal account.

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Buyer
xxx name of byer
xxxx email name of buyer

Shipping address -
here it will give you the client shipping address where to
send the goods to

Description Unit price Qty Amount
xxxx this is the name you give your product or name and numer
Subtotal £30.00 GBP
Total £30.00 GBP

Hope this helps

ad99wd,

Thanks for answering my query. So it sounds like whatever I put in the "Title" section of the add product item form on Shopping Cart is what PayPal will send me. That's what I needed to know. Time to go rename some products...
Thanks!