Developer's Guide
Table Of Contents
- Adaptive Accounts Developer Guide
- Contents
- Preface
- What’s New
- Introducing Adaptive Accounts
- Supported Formats, URLs and HTTP Request Headers
- CreateAccount API Operation
- AddBankAccount API Operation
- AddPaymentCard API Operation
- SetFundingSourceConfirmed API Operation
- GetVerifiedStatus API Operation
- Country Codes
- Business Categories and Subcategories
- Adaptive Accounts IPN Messages
- Older Versions of the Adaptive Accounts API
- Adaptive Account Changes Corresponding to PayPal Version 85.0
- Adaptive Account Changes Corresponding to PayPal Version 69.0
- Adaptive Account Changes Corresponding to PayPal Version 65.5
- Adaptive Account Changes Corresponding to PayPal Version 64.2
- Adaptive Account Changes Corresponding to PayPal Version 62.2
- Revision History
- Index
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Contents
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Documentation Feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
What’s New . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Adaptive Account Changes Corresponding for PayPal Version 89.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Chapter 1 Introducing Adaptive Accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11
Adaptive Accounts Scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Creating an Account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Adding Bank Accounts as Funding Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Adding Payment Cards as Funding Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Set Funding Sources to Confirmed Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Verifying the Status of a PayPal Account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Account Creation Flow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Account Creation Using a Minibrowser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Adding a Credit Card in the Minibrowser Account Creation Flow . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Confirming Account Creation Using a Mobile Phone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Default Account Creation From the Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Chapter 2 Supported Formats, URLs and HTTP Request Headers . . .23
Adaptive Accounts Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Adaptive Accounts URLs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Supported Formats. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
HTTP Request Headers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Chapter 3 CreateAccount API Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27
CreateAccount Request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
CreateAccount Request Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
AddressType Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
BusinessInfoType Fields. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
BusinessStakeholderType Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37