What is a PayPal payer id?

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Antonio picture Antonio · Aug 19, 2011 · Viewed 33.4k times · Source

Instant Payment Notification script receives among other parameters the following one:

payer_id = LPLWNMTBWMFAY

What is the meaning of that string?

Answer

Robert picture Robert · Aug 19, 2011

It's an external unique identifier of a particular PayPal account. Since email addresses change over time. A PayerID is static.

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