Integration Guide

Website Payments Standard Checkout Integration Guide November 2005 23
How Website Payments Standard Works
How To Use This Guide
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How To Use This Guide
Website Payments Standard has two primary components: Buy Now or Donations buttons and
Shopping Cart. Both are constructed with the same basic set of HTML FORM variables. You
can affect their behavior and appearance with settings in your account Profile and with
additional FORM variables.
The following table summarizes the contents of this guide.
Other Standard Products and Features
Website Payments Standard also includes other products and features not detailed in this
guide:
TABLE 1.1 How To Use This Guide
Feature Description See Also...
Buy Now or
Donations
Paying for single items from your website.
Chapter 3, “Single-Item
Payment: Buy Now and
Donations
”
Shopping Cart Paying for multiple items from your website. It
comes in two forms: a shopping cart hosted on
PayPal’s website and as HTML FORM
variables for use in third-party shopping carts.
Chapter 4, “Multiple-Item
Payment: Shopping Cart
”
Custom Payment Pages Account Profile settings that brand PayPal’s pages
with your own colors and images.
“Branding PayPal’s Payment
Pages” on page 29
“Account Optional” or
Website Payments
Express
Account Profile setting that allows a customer to
pay you with credit or debit cards without having a
PayPal account.
“Account Optional or Website
Payments Express” on
page 35
Auto Return Account Profile settings that eliminate PayPal’s
payment receipt page (step 4 in
Figure 1.1, “Basic
Website Payments Standard Page Sequence
).
“Auto Return” on page 43
Automatic Calculation
of Shipping, Handling,
and Tax
Account Profile settings that calculate shipping and
handling costs and sales tax for you.
“Automatic Calculation of
Shipping and Handling Cost
and Tax” on page 45
Customer Contact
Telephone
Account Profile setting that sends you the
customer’s contact telephone number.
“Getting Customer Contact
Telephone Numbers” on
page 49
Multi-User Access Account Profile setting that allows up to seven
email addresses to share your Business account.
“Multi-User Access to Your
PayPal Account” on page 55
Encrypted Website
Payments
Encrypt payment information before it is sent to
PayPal to protect customer data.
Chapter 5, “Encrypted
Website Payments
”