Developer's Guide

Table Of Contents
Introducing Adaptive Accounts
Account Creation Flow
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14 May 2012 Adaptive Accounts Developer Guide
The following items correspond to the circled numbers in the diagram:
1. Your site or device sends a CreateAccount request to PayPal on behalf of a potential
account holder.
2. PayPal responds with a key and a URL, named the redirectURL, that you use when you
direct the person to PayPal.
3. You include the key and redirect your person’s browser to PayPal using the
redirectURL.
After the person logs on to PayPal and completes the account setup, the person is prompted to
return to the URL.
Account Creation Using a Minibrowser
PayPal can enable your customer to create an account using a minibrowser flow. Set
CreateAccountRequest.CreateAccountWebOptionsType.useMinibrowser to
true in the CreateAccount request message to specify this flow.
NOTE: You must use Version 1.0.1 or higher of the Adaptive Accounts WSDL to implement
this flow.
When you redirect your customers browser to the URL in the CreateAccount response
message, PayPal responds with the following: