Localized Paypal payment requests

If you work with customers outside your country and not speaking your mother tongue, it is necessary to send them a payment request in their own language in Paypal, because the default language of Paypal payment requests is the language of the country where you have registered your account.

Paypal request money feature doesn’t permit to select the language and/or country of the receiver of the request.
Nonetheless you can easily build a link to send to your customer by email that will present a payment request in her own language.

You can append different parameters on the url to control the appearance on the payment request page.
Here there are some examples :

1. Simple payment request with no language/ country specification

   http://www.paypal.com/webscr?cmd=_xclick
   &business=[YOUR_PAYPAL_EMAIL]
   &item_name=[PAYMENT_DESCRIPTION]
   &amount=[AMOUNT]
   &currency_code=[CURRENCY_CODE]

2. Specify the country of the recipient

   http://www.paypal.com/webscr?cmd=_xclick
   &business=[YOUR_PAYPAL_EMAIL]
   &item_name=[PAYMENT_DESCRIPTION]
   &amount=[AMOUNT]
   &currency_code=[CURRENCY_CODE]
   &country=[COUNTRY_CODE]

3. Specify the language of the recipient

   http://www.paypal.com/webscr?cmd=_xclick
   &business=[YOUR_PAYPAL_EMAIL]
   &item_name=[PAYMENT_DESCRIPTION]
   &amount=[AMOUNT]
   &currency_code=[CURRENCY_CODE]
   &lc=[LANGUAGE_CODE]

4. Specify the country and the language of the recipient

   http://www.paypal.com/webscr?cmd=_xclick
   &business=[YOUR_PAYPAL_EMAIL]
   &item_name=[PAYMENT_DESCRIPTION]
   &amount=[AMOUNT]
   &currency_code=[CURRENCY_CODE]
   &country=[COUNTRY_CODE]
   &lc=[LANGUAGE_CODE]

Parameters explanation :

• [YOUR_PAYPAL_EMAIL] : the email you used to register your Paypal account
• [PAYMENT_DESCRIPTION] : the description of the payment request, ex : Invoice 123.
  Substitute spaces here with the characters : %20, so : Invoice%20123
• [AMOUNT] : the amount requested
• [CURRENCY_CODE] : the code of the currency of the specified amount, ex : EUR, USD, CAD, GBP
• [COUNTRY_CODE] : the code of the country of the recipient, ex : USA, IT, CA, GB
• [LANGUAGE_CODE] : the code of the language of the recipient, ex : en, it, fr, de