Integration Guide

How Website Payments Standard Works
Notifications You Receive
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3. Under the Payment Notifications heading, clear the I receive PayPal Website Payments
and Instant Purchase checkbox.
4. Click Save.
Transaction History
Your transaction history (also called your “History) displays information about your
payments. The status of each payment is one of the following statuses:
z Completed: The transaction was successful and the money was credited to your account
z Cleared: The payment cleared the sender’s account and was credited to your account
z Uncleared: The payment has not cleared the sender’s account yet
Downloadable History Log
You can download copies of your transaction history to your computer. You can specify a date
range for the transactions and the format of the downloadable file. The file contains a record of
your transactions.
To learn more about Downloadable History Logs, see the Order Management Integration
Guide.
Instant Payment Notification (IPN)
Instant Payment Notification is a mechanism by which you to receive transaction data. IPN
posts individual transaction information to a URL on your website that you have programmed
to process this incoming data. To use IPN, you must activate it, because it is disabled by
default.
If IPN is activated, you receive a notification in the following cases:
z When a payment is first sent, indicating that the status of the payment is Completed or
Pending
z When a payment clears, fails, or is denied, if the status was pending
To learn more about IPN, see “Instant Payment Notification: notify_url” on page 96 and the
Order Management Integration Guide.