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Payflow Link Fraud Protection Services User’s Guide ix
Preface
This Document
Payflow Link Fraud Protection Services User’s Guide is intended for merchants who subscribe
to PayPal Fraud Protection Services and that will integrate Payflow Link with their e-
commerce Web site. The documentation first describes a simple implementation that “gets you
up and running” quickly. More complex solutions are described in later chapters.
Organization of This Document
This guide is organized as follows:
z Chapter 1, “Introduction,” contains an overview of Payflow Link.
z Chapter 2, “How Fraud Protection Services Protect You,” describes the security tools that
make up the Fraud Protection Services.
z Chapter 3, “Configuring Payflow Link,” briefly describes how to configure the Payflow
Link Configuration page.
z Chapter 4, “Configuring the Fraud Protection Services Filters,” describes the process of
configuring all aspects of security management for your Payflow account.
z Chapter 5, “Integrating Your Web Site with Payflow Link (Basic Integration),” describes
the process of customizing and adding HTML text into your Web page. This HTML code
passes your customer (and a set of data) to PayPal’s Payflow Link server for transaction
processing.
z Chapter 6, “Integrating Your Web Site with Payflow Link (Advanced Integration),”
describes a more sophisticated integration between your Web store and Payflow Link.
z Chapter 7, “Testing Payflow Link,” describes the process that you follow to test your
Payflow Link integration and to verify that it is operating correctly.
z Chapter 8, “Activating Payflow Link,” provides instructions on activating your Payflow
Link account and changing the appropriate configuration settings.
z Chapter 9, “Managing Payflow Link,” provides an overview of basic PayPal Manager
tasks.
z Chapter 10, “Assessing Transactions that Triggered Filters,” explains how you can use
PayPal Manager to set up the fraud filters to meet your business needs.
z Chapter 11, “Integrating TeleCheck Transactions,” provides instructions on enabling
TeleCheck transactions for your customers.