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Payflow Link User’s Guide 7
Introduction
Introduction to Integrating with Payflow Link
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Introduction to Integrating with Payflow Link
You follow these steps to integrate your Web store with Payflow Link:
1. Register for a Payflow Link account and apply for an internet merchant account at
https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_payflow-link-overview-outside.
2. Configure Payflow Link by specifying the appearance and content of your PayPal-hosted
order processing forms. Refer to Chapter 2, “Configuring Payflow Link.”
3. Connect your Web store to the Payflow Link service: Paste a few lines of HTML text into
your Web page. This HTML code passes your customer (and the transaction data) to
PayPal’s Payflow Link server for transaction processing. This step is described in
Chapter 3, “Integrating Your Web Site with Payflow Link (Basic Integration).”
4. Test Payflow Link before you activate your Web store for customer use. This step is
described in Chapter 5, “Testing Payflow Link.”
5. Activate your account to go live. This step is described in Chapter 6, “Activating Payflow
Link.”
Requirements for Using Payflow Link
To use Payflow Link, you must have the following:
z Web page. You must have a Web page for your e-commerce business. You must also be
able to upload changes to your Web site.
z Internet Service Provider. An ISP must host your Web site.
z A basic text editor or HTML editor. You will use the editor to add the HTML text that
links your site to Payflow Link.
z Web browser. You must have Internet Explorer 5.5 (or newer) to access the PayPal
Manager application.
z Internet Merchant Account. You must have an internet merchant account before you can
begin accepting payments at your Web site. PayPal has partnered with several internet
merchant account providers to make applying easy.
z Your Web page must calculate the total transaction amount. Payflow Link enables
your customers to process a single transaction amount. Payflow Link does not calculate the
transaction amount based on customer selections. To enable customers to order multiple
items or quantities, you must develop a solution that dynamically calculates the total
transaction amount based upon customer selections in your Web store. Your code then
passes the total transaction amount to the Payflow Link server. PayPal provides simple
HTML code that passes the amount, as described in
Chapter 3, “Integrating Your Web Site
with Payflow Link (Basic Integration).”
– Merchant must have its business operations physically based in the United States.