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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Getting Started
These basic scenarios get you up and running quickly with the Adaptive Payments API. The
sample code shows different combinations of requests with different bindings in various
programming languages.
Adaptive Payments API Operations
Adaptive Payments provides API operations, enabling you to build an application that handles
payments, preapprovals for payments, refunds, and additional operations related to payments.
Some kinds of payments and operations require specific permission to use.
API Operations Related to Payments
API Operations Related to Preapprovals
API Operation Description
Pay Transfers funds from a sender’s PayPal account to one or more
receivers’ PayPal accounts (up to 6 receivers)
PaymentDetails Obtains information about a payment created with the Pay API
operation
ExecutePayment Executes a payment
GetPaymentOptions Obtain the settings specified with the SetPaymentOptions API
operation
SetPaymentOptions Sets payment options
API Operation Description
Preapproval Sets up preapprovals, which is an approval to make future payments
on the sender’s behalf
PreapprovalDetails Obtains information about a preapproval
CancelPreapproval Cancels a preapproval
ConfirmPreapproval Confirms that you can use the specified preapproval to make
payments