Integration Guide
Table Of Contents
- PayPal Express Checkout Integration Guide
- Contents
- Preface
- Getting Started With Express Checkout
- Express Checkout User Interface Requirements
- Related API Operations
- Integrating Express Checkout With PayPal SDKs
- Going Live With Your Express Checkout Integration
- Obtaining API Credentials
- PayPal Name-Value Pair API Basics
- PayPal SOAP API Basics
- PayPal WSDL/XSD Schema Definitions
- PayPal SOAP API Definitions
- Security
- SOAP RequesterCredentials: Username, Password, Signature, and Subject
- SOAP Service Endpoints
- SOAP Request Envelope
- Request Structure
- SOAP Message Style: doc-literal
- Response Structure
- Error Responses
- CorrelationID for Reporting Problems to PayPal
- UTF-8 Character Encoding
- Date/Time Formats
- Core Currency Amount Data Type
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PayPal SOAP API Basics
Request Structure
Diagram of SOAP Request Envelope
Request Structure
The following annotated description of the SOAP request structure shows the elements
required by the PayPal SOAP API.
General Structure of PayPal API SOAP Request
<?xml version=”1.0” encoding=”UTF-8”?>
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:xsi= ” http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance”
xmlns:SOAP-ENC=”http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/”
xmlns:SOAP-ENV=”http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/”
xmlns:xsd=”http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema”
SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle=”http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/”
><SOAP-ENV:Header>
<RequesterCredentials xmlns=”urn:ebay:api:PayPalAPI”>
<Credentials xmlns=”urn:ebay:apis:eBLBaseComponents”>
<Username>api_username</Username>