How to get donation button id used in a transaction

[asj549fh3mgf90]

Hi, I would like to understand how to get the ID of a donation button from a transaction ID.  Using

v1/reporting/transactions?fields=all

shows the account of who made the donation / transfer, but does not include any fields that identify which donation button was used.

Why --> I have a charity with +60 donation buttons.  I need a way to track which project (donation button) the funds should be designated too using the rest api.

My three donation buttons in my sandbox

  https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=QS7YJUKLG5G4L
  https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=5CAA5CDSHVZPJ
  https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=C6VJSALE5Y9GJ

How to know if the transfer came from QS7YJUKLG5G4L, 5CAA5CDSHVZPJ or C6VJSALE5Y9GJ?

[MTS_Chiranjeevi · Accepted solution]

Good day @asj549fh3mgf90,

Thank you for posting to the PayPal community.

Merchants can use the Transaction Search REST API to get the history of transactions for a PayPal account.

https://developer.paypal.com/docs/api/transaction-search/v1/#search_get 

Based on your requirement, I would suggest to please pass a custom value in your donate buttons. Using the custom ID you can track the particular donation.

custom Optional

Pass-through variable for your own tracking purposes, which buyers do not see. By default, no variable is passed back to you.

https://developer.paypal.com/api/nvp-soap/paypal-payments-standard/integration-guide/Appx-websitesta... 

Donation button is a legacy integration. 

Sincerely,

Chiranjeevi

PayPal/Braintree MTS

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[asj549fh3mgf90]

Thank you.  Adding a html variable to the donation button

custom=QS7YJUKLG5G4L

shows up in the json in the transaction search api.  Exactly what I needed.

[MTS_Chiranjeevi]

@asj549fh3mgf90 Sure, Happy to hear that it worked. Thank you.

[asj549fh3mgf90]

I have discovered that this only works for one time donations.  If the donation button is set to re-occurring monthly, then the custom_field element in the json that contains the button ID is missing.  This makes it impossible to do automated donation processing on our website.