Study Guide

PayPal Certified Developer Program Study Guide March 2008 17
Online Payment Processing
PayPal’s Payment Processing Solutions
1
N OTE: This Study Guide and the PayPal Developer Certification cover the Website Payments
Pro solution with Express Checkout.
TABLE 1.1 PayPal Payment Processing Solutions
I need an all-in-one
solution
I have an internet
merchant account
I need basic payment
processing
Additional
payment
option
Website
Payments
Pro
Website
Payments
Standard
Payflow
Pro
Payflow
Link
Email
Payments
Virtual
Terminal PayPal
Customer Experience
Where
customers
shop:
Shop on
merchant
website
Shop on
merchant
website
Shop on
merchant
website
Shop on
merchant
website
Varies with
merchant
business
Varies with
merchant
business
Shop on
merchant
website
Where
customers
check out:
Merchant
website or
on PayPal
PayPal Merchant
website or
on PayPal
PayPal PayPal Phone, fax,
or mail
PayPal
Customers
need a
PayPal
account:
No No No No No No No
Integration
Internet
merchant
account:
Included Not needed Required Required Not needed Included Required
Shopping
cart
support:
Yes Yes Yes Yes Not
required
Not
required
Yes
Technical
skills:
APIs HTML APIs or
HTML
APIs or
HTML
Not
required
Not
required
APIs or
HTML
Ability to
accept
phone, fax,
or mail
orders
Included Upgrade Included Included Upgrade Included Upgrade