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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Contents
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
About This Guide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Intended Audience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Where to Go for More Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Documentation Feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Chapter 1 Customizing Express Checkout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
PayPal Review Page Order Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Special Instructions to Merchant. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Integrating Order Details into the Express Checkout Flow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Providing Gift Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Obtaining Buyer Consent to Receive Promotional Email . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Overriding Your Customer Service Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Adding a Survey Question . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
PayPal Page Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Custom Page Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Individual Page Style Characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Changing the Locale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Handling Shipping Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Confirmed Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Suppressing the Buyer’s Shipping Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Shipping Address Override . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Automatically Filling Out Shipping and Contact Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Buyer Pays on PayPal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Express Checkout Redirect to Let Buyers Pay on PayPal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Chapter 2 Express Checkout on Mobile Devices . . . . . . . . . . . .29
About the Express Checkout Experience on Mobile Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Buyer Pays on Your Site . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Buyer Pays on PayPal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Mobile Platforms Supported by Express Checkout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
About Mobile Express Checkout Integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31