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Preface
This Document
This release of Virtual Terminal User Guide, a document that describes Virtual Terminal, a
PayPal-hosted online payment form that enables merchants to accept phone, fax, mail, and in-
person orders for all major credit cards, replaces the version published in November, 2005.
Intended Audience
This document is written for U.S. merchants who have a PayPal Business account.
Notational Conventions
This document uses typefaces to identify the characteristics of text. These typefaces and the
characteristics they imply are described below:
To convey additional information, this document may also apply color and underlining to
words or phrases that use the typefaces described above. Such use is described below:
TABLE P.1
Typeface How Used
Serif italic A term being discussed or defined.
For example: A file is a readable or writable stream of characters …
Serif bold User interface names, such as window names or menu selections.
For example: On the Profile page, click Email to confirm your email address.
T
ABLE P.2
Text attribute How Used
link
Hypertext link to a page in the current document or to another document in the set.