Integration Guide
Table Of Contents
- Express Checkout Integration Guide
- Contents
- Preface
- Introducing Express Checkout
- Express Checkout Button and Logo Image Integration
- PayPal Name-Value Pair API Basics
- Implementing the Simplest Express Checkout Integration
- Testing an Express Checkout Integration
- Customizing Express Checkout
- Implementing the Instant Update API
- Immediate Payment
- Implementing Parallel Payments
- Handling Payment Settlements
- Handling Recurring Payments
- How Recurring Payments Work
- Recurring Payments Terms
- Options for Creating a Recurring Payments Profile
- Recurring Payments With Express Checkout
- Recurring Payments Profile Status
- Getting Recurring Payments Profile Information
- Modifying a Recurring Payments Profile
- Billing the Outstanding Amount of a Profile
- Recurring Payments Notifications
- Using Other PayPal API Operations
- Integrating giropay with Express Checkout
Testing an Express Checkout Integration
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Express Checkout Execution Flow
The following steps match the circled numbers in the diagram. Perform the actions in each
step to test Express Checkout.
1. Invoke a form on your site that calls the SetExpressCheckout API on the Sandbox.
To invoke the API, set form fields whose names match the NVP names of the fields you want
to set, specify their corresponding values, and then post the form to a PayPal Sandbox server,
such as https://api-3t.sandbox.paypal.com/nvp, as shown in the following
example: