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Submitting Transaction Data to the Payflow Link Server

Collecting Customer Transaction Data, Option 1

48 Payflow Link User’s Guide

Collecting Customer Transaction Data, Option 1

Using the Payflow Link Order Form

You can use the Payflow Link Order form to collect transaction data from the customer. This

default configuration is described in

Chapter 3, “Integrating Your Web Site with Payflow Link

(Basic Integration).” This configuration minimizes the data that you must collect at your site

and pass to PayPal.

NOTE: One significant benefit of using this configuration is that you do not have to invest in

the security infrastructure required to accept account information (credit card number

and expiration date) at your site—PayPal performs the secure transfer of this data.

You specify the fields that appear on the Order form by selecting them in the Configuration

page.

For this case, the minimum set of data that you must Post to Payflow Link is described in

“Data That You Must Pass if You Use Payflow Link’s Order Form” on page 49. In addition,

you can pass any of the data described in “Optional Transaction Data” on page 52.

Pre-populating Order Form Fields

To improve your customer’s experience, you may wish to populate the Order form with

information that your site has already collected. You can pre-populate any Order form field by

using the HTML Post method to send the associated name/value pair to the Payflow Link

server. In this example, you populate the Total

Amount (a required value), Name, Address,

and City fields:

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As a result, the values appear in the Order form (the card number and expiration date values

were collected by the Credit Card Information page):