[ PayPal Merchant API - Getting Products Information ]

New to using PayPal, and had a general question regarding what it can provide.

The need is to enable someone with a merchant account on PayPal to login to a website (meaning the api should probably be in javascript) and then get from the API information about the products the merchant supplies.

Does anyone know how this can be done?

Sincerely,

-Lior

Answer 1

PayPal doesn't have any way to store actual inventory data. If you process orders with item details included then you pull those details using GetTransactionDetails.

If you're using the Button Manager API you could create individual buttons for different products with inventory tracking enabled on those and then you could potentially pull "inventory" data by pulling the buttons. I wouldn't recommend that, though.

Really, the best thing to do would be to manage your inventory in your own system of some sort.