Advanced Features Guide
Table Of Contents
- Express Checkout Advanced Features Guide
- Contents
- Preface
- Customizing Express Checkout
- PayPal Review Page Order Details
- Providing Gift Options
- Obtaining Buyer Consent to Receive Promotional Email
- Overriding Your Customer Service Number
- Adding a Survey Question
- PayPal Page Style
- Changing the Locale
- Handling Shipping Addresses
- Automatically Filling Out Shipping and Contact Information
- Buyer Pays on PayPal
- Express Checkout on Mobile Devices
- About the Express Checkout Experience on Mobile Devices
- Mobile Platforms Supported by Express Checkout
- About Mobile Express Checkout Integration
- Integrating Express Checkout With Your Mobile Website
- Enabling PayPal Account Optional Checkout on Mobile Devices
- Request Fields Supported by Express Checkout on Mobile Devices
- Locales Supported by Express Checkout on Mobile Devices
- Features Not Supported by Express Checkout on Mobile Devices
- Handling Recurring Payments
- How Recurring Payments Work
- Recurring Payments Terms
- Options for Creating a Recurring Payments Profile
- Recurring Payments With the Express Checkout API
- Recurring Payments Profile Status
- Getting Recurring Payments Profile Information
- Modifying a Recurring Payments Profile
- Billing the Outstanding Amount of a Profile
- Recurring Payments Notifications
- Reference Transactions
- Implementing Parallel Payments
- Integrating giropay with Express Checkout
- Implementing the Instant Update API
- Payment Review
- Express Checkout Dynamic Image Integration
- Immediate Payment
- Revision History
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Customizing Express Checkout
PayPal Review Page Order Details
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(9) – Shipping discount. If the buyer is receiving a discount on shipping, the value appears as a
credit in this field.
(10) – Insurance. This field shows the insurance fee when there is insurance on shipping.
(11) – Total. This is the total of the order, including shipping, handling, tax, and other price
adjustment-related items.
NOTE: The Enter gift certificate, reward, or discount link enables the buyer to redeem
certificates, rewards, or discounts that PayPal issues. The link does not enable the
buyer to redeem incentives that you issue.
Special Instructions to Merchant
You can allow the buyer to send you special instructions about an order. This feature is
especially helpful to buyers who want to customize merchandise. A buyer also might want to
tell you to ship their order at a later date because they are out of the country.
NOTE: Users of this feature should be sure to read the instructions the buyer sends.
This feature appears as the link on the Review your information page. When the buyer clicks
Add, a Note to seller text box opens in which the buyer can enter special instructions to the
merchant and click Save. The instructions are returned in the responses to
GetExpressCheckoutDetails and DoExpressCheckoutPayment.
Integrating Order Details into the Express Checkout Flow
To integrate order details into the checkout flow, pass any of the following Express Checkout
parameters to SetExpressCheckout.
NVP Field SOAP Field Description and Comments
L_PAYMENTREQUEST_
n_NAMEm Name Item name.
L_PAYMENTREQUEST_
n_NUMBERm Number Item number.
L_PAYMENTREQUEST_
n_DESCm Description Item description.
The DESC (NVP) and OrderDescription
(SOAP) fields still exist for backwards
compatibility. However, L_DESCn and
Description enable you to provide a more
precise description for each different item
purchased, such as hiking boots or
cooking utensils rather than one general
purpose description such as camping
supplies.