Developer's Guide
Table Of Contents
- Adaptive Payments Developer Guide
- Contents
- What’s New?
- Introducing Adaptive Payments
- Adaptive Payments Actors and Objects
- Simple, Parallel, and Chained Payments
- Payment Approval
- Adaptive Payments Service Permissions
- Explicit Approval Payment Flow
- Preapproved Payments Flow
- Implicit Approval Payments Flow
- Embedded Payments
- Embedded Payment Flow Presentations
- Kinds of Embedded Payments
- Embedded Payments Implementation Basics
- Embedded Payment Experience
- Preapprove Future Payments Checkbox
- Shipping Address Information
- Embedded Payment Experience
- Setting Up Web Pages to Invoke the Embedded Payment Flow Using a Lightbox
- Setting Up Web Pages to Invoke the Embedded Payment Flow Using a Minibrowser
- Displaying and Collecting Shipping Addresses
- Guest Payments
- Fee Payment Configuration
- Getting Started
- Pay API Operation
- PaymentDetails API Operation
- ExecutePayment API Operation
- GetPaymentOptions API Operation
- SetPaymentOptions API Operation
- Preapproval API Operation
- PreapprovalDetails API Operation
- CancelPreapproval API Operation
- ConvertCurrency API Operation
- Refund API Operation
- GetFundingPlans API Operation
- GetShippingAddresses API Operation
- Adaptive Payment Commands and Redirects
- Instant Payment Notifications
- Older Versions of the Adaptive Payments API
- 1.8.0 Features
- 1.7.0 Features
- 1.6.0 Features
- New API Operations for Version 1.6.0
- Changes to PayRequest Fields for Version 1.6.0
- Changes to PayResponse Fields for Version 1.6.0
- Changes to ExecutePaymentRequest Fields for Version 1.6.0
- Changes to GetPaymentOptionsResponse Fields for Version 1.6.0
- Changes to SetPaymentOptionsRequest Fields for Version 1.6.0
- Changes to PreapprovalRequest Fields for Version 1.6.0
- Changes to Address Structure for Version 1.6.0
- Changes to DisplayOptions Structure for Version 1.6.0
- New CurrencyConversion Structure for Version 1.6.0
- New InvoiceData Structure for Version 1.6.0
- New InvoiceItem Structure for Version 1.6.0
- New SenderOptions Structure for Version 1.6.0
- New SenderIdentifier Structure for Version 1.6.0
- New AccountIdentifier Structure for Version 1.6.0
- New ReceiverOptions Structure for Version 1.6.0
- New ReceiverIdentifier Structure for Version 1.6.0
- Additional Error Messages for Version 1.6.0
- 1.5.0 Features
- 1.4.0 Features
- 1.3.0 Features
- 1.2.0 Features
- 1.1.0 Features
- Revision History
- Index
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Introducing Adaptive Payments
The Adaptive Payments API enables you to send money in many different scenarios, from
simple to complex. For example, you might build a small send money application for a social
networking site or a robust payroll system.
Adaptive Payments Actors and Objects
Adaptive payments handles payments between a sender of a payment and one or more
receivers of the payment. You are an application owner, such as a merchant that owns a
website, the owner of a widget on a social networking site, the provider of a payment
application on mobile phones, and so on. Your application is the caller of Adaptive Payments
API operations.
NOTE: The application owner must have a PayPal Business account. Senders and
receivers can have any PayPal account type. Senders and receivers are not
required to have PayPal accounts initially. PayPal prompts a sender to create
an account before a payment can be completed. A receiver must create an
account to receive the funds after the payment completes.
With many applications, you may be both the application owner and a receiver. For example,
as the owner of a website, you are the receiver of payments from the senders who are your
customers. The following diagram shows the relationship between a sender, you as a receiver,
and PayPal: