Advanced Features Guide

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Payment Review
Payment Review is an Express Checkout feature that identifies high-risk transactions and
notifies you so that you can hold shipments until the risk has been evaluated by PayPal.
Handling Payment Review
You are immediately notified that a payment is under review and you should not ship
merchandise or, in the case of electronic media, you should not allow download access while
the payment is under review. You are notified of the resolution within 24 hours.
NOTE: Payment Review is not applicable to Direct Payment.
You can determine the status of a payment in the following ways:
 By logging in to https://www.paypal.com/ and viewing the status information in the
Transaction History
 By email sent by PayPal
 By Instant Payment Notification (IPN) message
 By Payment Data Transfer (PDT) message
 By checking the status of a transaction programmatically
Programmatically, the merchant can determine the status of a payment by checking the initial
status of a transaction using any of the following the API operations:
 DoExpressCheckoutPayment
 DoReferenceTransaction
 DoAuthorization
 DoReauthorization
You can check the subsequent status of a transaction programmatically by calling the
GetTransactionDetails API operation.
NOTE: You must use version 58.0 or higher to obtain the initial status information provided
by DoExpressCheckoutPayment, DoReferenceTransaction,
DoAuthorization, or DoReauthorization.
To use payment review with the DoExpressCheckoutPayment,
DoReferenceTransaction, DoAuthorization, and DoReauthorization PayPal API
operations, you must: