Design Guide

PayPal Embedded Checkout Design Guide v.3 • 5
About PayPal’s Embedded Checkout
PayPal’s embedded checkout is an embedded mini-page that can be inserted onto a website
to collect payment information. The plug-in was designed to integrate visually with most
websites so buyers feel like they are still on your site (see highlighted section in Figure 1).
However, PayPal is actually hosting the mini-page, so you don’t have to collect credit card
data and deal with the PCI compliance (credit card security compliance) burden for PayPal
transactions. We do it on your behalf.
Figure 1 – Sample payment page using PayPal’s embedded checkout.