Integration Guide
Table Of Contents
- Preface
- How Website Payments Standard Works
- Using Your Merchant Account Profile and Tools
- The Account Profile Summary
- Branding PayPal’s Payment Pages
- Streamlining Purchases with Website Payment Preferences
- Blocking Certain Kinds of Payment
- Adding Your Credit Card Statement Name
- Getting Customer Contact Telephone Numbers
- Language Encoding Your Data
- Multi-User Access to Your PayPal Account
- PayPal-Supported Currencies
- Issuing Refunds
- Single-Item Payment: Buy Now and Donations
- Multiple-Item Payment: Shopping Cart
- Encrypted Website Payments
- Testing in the PayPal Sandbox
- Website Payments Standard HTML FORM Basics
- Website Payments Standard HTML Variables
- Country Codes
- Index
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How Website Payments Standard
Works
The PayPal Website Payments Standard Checkout Integration Guide describes how you use
Website Payments Standard. Website Payments Standard consists of HTML FORMs on your
website that direct your customer’s web browser to the PayPal website at
http://www.paypal.com in order to pay you and then return the customer to your website.
Figure 1.1, “Basic Website Payments Standard Page Sequence,” shows the basic sequence of
web browser pages when a customer pays you with PayPal Website Payments Standard.
FIGURE 1.1 Basic Website Payments Standard Page Sequence
All features of Website Payments Standard are variations on this basic page sequence. You use
HTML FORM variables and the settings in your PayPal account Profile to affect the behavior
of the basic sequence.