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Table Of Contents
- SOAP API Developer Reference
- Contents
- PayPal SOAP API Basics
- PayPal WSDL/XSD Schema Definitions
- PayPal SOAP API Definitions
- Security
- SOAP RequesterCredentials: Username, Password, Signature, and Subject
- SOAP Service Endpoints
- SOAP Request Envelope
- Request Structure
- SOAP Message Style: doc-literal
- Response Structure
- Error Responses
- CorrelationID for Reporting Problems to PayPal
- UTF-8 Character Encoding
- Date/Time Formats
- Core Currency Amount Data Type
- AddressVerify API Operation
- Authorization and Capture API Operation Reference
- DoDirectPayment API Operation
- DoNonReferencedCredit API Operation
- ExpressCheckout API Operations
- GetBalance API Operation
- GetPalDetails API Operation
- GetTransactionDetails API Operation
- ManagePendingTransactionStatu s API Operation
- MassPay API Operation
- Recurring Payments and Reference Transactions API Operations
- CreateRecurringPaymentsProfile API Operation
- GetRecurringPaymentsProfileDetails API Operation
- ManageRecurringPaymentsProfileStatus API Operation
- BillOutstandingAmount API Operation
- UpdateRecurringPaymentsProfile API Operation
- SetCustomerBillingAgreement API Operation
- CreateBillingAgreement API Operation
- GetBillingAgreementCustomerDetails API Operation
- BAUpdate API Operation
- DoReferenceTransaction API Operation
- RefundTransaction API Operation
- TransactionSearch API Operation
- API Error Codes
- General API Errors
- Validation Errors
- DirectPayment API Errors
- SetExpressCheckout API Errors
- GetExpressCheckoutDetails API Errors
- DoExpressCheckoutPayment API Errors
- Authorization and Capture API Errors
- GetTransactionDetails API Errors
- TransactionSearch API Errors
- RefundTransaction API Errors
- MassPay API Errors
- Recurring Payments Errors
- SetCustomerBillingAgreement Errors
- GetBillingAgreementCustomerDetails Errors
- CreateBillingAgreement Errors
- UpdateBillingAgreement Errors
- DoReferenceTransaction Errors
- AddressVerify API Errors
- ManagePendingTransactionStatus API Errors
- Countries and Regions Supported by PayPal
- State and Province Codes
- Currency Codes
- AVS and CVV2 Response Codes
- About Previous Versions of the API
- What’s New in Version 95.0
- What’s New in Version 93.0
- What’s New in Version 92.0
- What’s New in Version 91.0
- What’s New in Version 89.0
- What’s New in Version 88.0
- What’s New in Version 85.0
- What’s New in Version 84.0
- What’s New in Version 82.0
- What’s New in Version 80.0
- What’s New in Version 74.0
- What’s New in Version 72.0
- What’s New in Version 69
- What’s New in Version 66
- Revision History
- Index
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PayPal SOAP API Basics
The PayPal SOAP API is based on open standards known collectively as web services, which
include the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), Web Services Definition Language
(WSDL), and the XML Schema Definition language (XSD). A wide range of development
tools on a variety of platforms support web services.
Like many web services, PayPal SOAP is a combination of client-side and server-side
schemas, hardware and software servers, and core services.
PayPal SOAP High-level Diagram
In an object-oriented processing model, the interface to SOAP requests/responses is an object
in your application’s native programming language. Your third-party SOAP client generates
business-object interfaces and network stubs from PayPal-provided WSDL and XSD files that
specify the PayPal SOAP message structure, its contents, and the PayPal API service bindings.
A business application works with data in the form of object properties to send and receive
data by calling object methods. The SOAP client handles the details of building the SOAP
request, sending it to the PayPal service, and converting the response back to an object.