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
Introducing Adaptive Payments
Explicit Approval Payment Flow
24 August 7, 2012 Adaptive Payments Developer Guide
The following diagram shows the basic flow of control for a payment (such as payment for
items in a shopping cart at a web store) that requires the sender to log in to paypal.com to
approve the payment:
The following items correspond to the circled numbers in the diagram:
1. Your site or device sends a Pay request to PayPal on behalf of a sender.
2. PayPal responds with a key that you use when you direct the sender to PayPal.
3. You redirect your sender’s browser to paypal.com.
4. After the sender authorizes the transfer of funds, PayPal redirects your sender’s browser to
the location you specify.
NOTE: The cancel operation is not shown in the diagram. Cancellation is handled by a
separate cancellation URL to which PayPal redirects the sender’s browser any time
the sender cancels while on paypal.com.
In addition to these steps, PayPal notifies you and the sender of the payment.