Integration Guide
Table Of Contents
- PayPal Payments Pro Integration Guide
- Contents
- Preface
- Introducing PayPal Payments Pro
- Introducing Direct Payment
- Introducing Express Checkout
- Getting Started With Direct Payment
- Getting Started With Express Checkout
- Integrating Recurring Payments
- How Recurring Payments Work
- Recurring Payments Terms
- Recurring Payments With Direct Payment
- Recurring Payments With the Express Checkout API
- Options for Creating a Recurring Payments Profile
- Recurring Payments Profile Status
- Getting Recurring Payments Profile Information
- Modifying a Recurring Payments Profile
- Billing the Outstanding Amount of a Profile
- Recurring Payments Notifications
- Getting Started With the PayPal Name-Value Pair API
- Implementing 3-D Secure Transactions (UK Only)
Introducing PayPal Payments Pro
Additional Features of PayPal Payments Pro
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10 April 2012 PayPal Payments Pro Integration Guide
From your shopping cart, a buyer can either checkout with Express Checkout, starting from
the Checkout with PayPal button on your Shopping Cart page, or pay directly by credit or
debit card using Direct Payment.
If a buyer pays using Express Checkout, PayPal provides a checkout experience that
streamlines checkout. Even if buyers do not pay using Express Checkout, they can still pay by
credit or debit card using Direct Payment. In this case, buyers might need to enter payment,
billing, and shipping information. In both cases, buyers stay on your website or are sent to the
page of your choice.
You must implement both an Express Checkout flow and a Direct Payment flow to use PayPal
Payments Pro. You implement the Express Checkout flow by calling PayPal’s Express
Checkout API operations, which guides a buyer through the checkout process. You implement
the Direct Payment flow using your own code, for which PayPal provides an API operation to
process the credit or debit card payment.
NOTE: Purchases through Direct Payment are not covered by the PayPal Seller Protection
Policy.
Additional Features of PayPal Payments Pro
PayPal Payments Pro consists of APIs for accepting credit card, debit card, and PayPal
payments; these payments can be immediate, authorized for later capture, and they can be
recurring payments. PayPal Payments Pro also includes standalone applications for accepting
payments.
In addition, PayPal Payments Pro includes Fraud Management Filters for automatic review
and management of risk.