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
Handling Shipping Addresses
1
Confirmed Address
A confirmed address is a shipping address that PayPal has established as belonging to the
PayPal account holder. To be protected by PayPal’s Seller Protection Policy, you must require
the shipping address to be a confirmed address.
NOTE: Because many buyers prefer to ship to a non-confirmed address (they may, for
example, be shipping a gift to someone), PayPal does not recommend requiring a
confirmed address unless you are selling high-risk merchandise. If you prefer that
confirmed addresses be used, then do not set ADDROVERRIDE.
To require a confirmed address for the shipping address, ensure that the shipping address
matches the address on record with PayPal. You can do this through your account profile, as
described in the
Merchant Setup and Administration Guide. Alternately, you can set a flag in the
call to SetExpressCheckout, as follows:
1. Include the optional REQCONFIRMSHIPPING parameter in the call to
SetExpressCheckout.
2. Set REQCONFIRMSHIPPING to 1.
The following example shows how to require the shipping address to be a confirmed address.
NOTE: The value of REQCONFIRMSHIPPING overrides the setting in your Merchant Account
Profile.
Request Parameters
[requiredSecurityParameters]
&METHOD=SetExpressCheckout
&RETURNURL=https://...
&CANCELURL=https://...
&PAYMENTREQUEST_0_AMT=10.00
&PAYMENTREQUEST_0_PAYMENTACTION=Sale
&REQCONFIRMSHIPPING=1
&PAYMENTREQUEST_0_SHIPTOSTREET=1 Main St
&PAYMENTREQUEST_0_SHIPTOCITY=San Jose
&PAYMENTREQUEST_0_SHIPTOSTATE=CA
&PAYMENTREQUEST_0_SHIPTOCOUNTRYCODE=US
&PAYMENTREQUEST_0_SHIPTOZIP=95131
&PAYMENTREQUEST_0_SHIPTOPHONENUM=408-967-4444
Response Parameters
[successResponseFields]
&TOKEN=EC-6UA07551EA393551U
Suppressing the Buyer’s Shipping Address
You can suppress the display of the buyer’s shipping address on the PayPal pages. You might
want to do this in these cases:
You are selling a product or service that does not require shipping.