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
How Website Payments Standard Works
Example of the Basic Page Sequence
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16 November 2005 Website Payments Standard Checkout Integration Guide
Example of the Basic Page Sequence
Here’s an example of the basic page sequence of Website Payments Standard. Like all
examples of pages in this guide, this example is based on the PayPal sample integration, which
demonstrates how PayPal has been integrated with the fictitious online store called
“DesignerFotos.”
BEGIN. The customer chooses to pay with PayPal on your website.
FIGURE 1.2 Beginning of Basic Page Sequence on Your Website
This example illustrates PayPal Buy Now, which is discussed in Chapter 3, “Single-Item
Payment: Buy Now and Donations.”