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
Guest Payments
3. Redirect the payment sender’s browser to the embedded payment flow at
https://www.paypal.com/webapps/adaptivepayment/flow/pay?paykey=...
after obtaining the pay key.
4. After returning from the flow, call the GetShippingAddresses API operation to obtain
the selected shipping address.
Guest Payments
Adaptive payments supports guest payments, which are payments using a sender’s credit card
without logging into PayPal to complete the transaction.The sender is not explicitly identified
as a PayPal account holder during the transaction and is not required to have a PayPal account.
Each receiver of a guest payment must be a verified PayPal Business Verified or Premier
Verified account holder.
PayPal handles guest payments in the same way that it handles explicitly approved payments.
Instead of logging into PayPal to complete transaction, the sender provides credit card
information on the PayPal payment screen: