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Introduction
Payment Types, Credit Cards, and Processing Platforms Supported by Payflow Link
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8 Payflow Link Fraud Protection Services User’s Guide
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 5, “Integrating Your Web Site
with Payflow Link (Basic Integration).”
z To use fraud protection tools, you must subscribe to PayPal’s Fraud Protection Services.
Merchants must meet the following eligibility requirements to enroll with and use Fraud
Protection Services:
– Merchant must have a current, paid PayPal Payflow Pro or Payflow Link gateway
service account.
– Merchant must be in Live mode (activated) with the gateway service.
– Merchant must have its business operations physically based in the United States.
– Merchant must use one of the following terminal-based processors: American Express,
FDMS First Data Nashville, FDMS First Data South, Global Payments - East, Nova,
Paymentech, or Vital.
Payment Types, Credit Cards, and Processing Platforms
Supported by Payflow Link
Supported Payment Types
Payflow Link supports the following tender types:
Credit cards
Check/debit cards issued by MasterCard or Visa
Telecheck electronic checks
Pinless debit cards