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Submitting Transaction Data to the Payflow Link Server
Collecting Customer Transaction Data, Option 2
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50 Payflow Link User’s Guide
Collecting Customer Transaction Data, Option 2
Collecting Data on Your Web Page and Posting to the Payflow Link Server
You can bypass the Payflow Link forms by collecting all transaction data on your Web page
and passing it directly to the Payflow Link server. (A simple version of this option appears in
“Example of a Custom Integration” on page 17.) In this case, you:
1. Turn off the Payflow Link Order form and collect the transaction data at your Web site.
Optionally, you can also turn off the Confirmation page.
2. Post all transaction data to the Payflow Link server.
If you pass both the credit card number and expiration date, then the Credit Card
Information page does not appear. The required Payflow Link Receipt page still appears
when the transaction is complete.
The minimum set of data that you must Post to Payflow Link is described in Table B.2 on
page 51. In addition, you can pass any of the data described in “Optional Transaction Data”
on page 52.
TABLE B.1 Transaction data required for all Payflow Link transactions
Field Name Description Max Length
LOGIN The login name that you chose while enrolling for your Payflow
account.
PARTNER The name of your Partner was provided to you by your Reseller.
AMOUNT The total amount of the transaction.
Decimal number with two decimal places. Amount must be greater
than 1.00.
This value appears on PayPal Manager reports, on the Transaction
Confirmation page, on the Receipt page, and in email receipts to
both merchant and customer.
TYPE Transaction type: S for Sale or A for Authorization. For more
information, see
“Payflow Link Transaction Types” on page 65.
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