Integration Guide

Using Your Merchant Account Profile and Tools
The Account Profile Summary
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Account Information
Use the Account Information column for basic account maintenance, including updating
your password, adding and confirming email addresses, managing your business information,
and (for Premier accounts) configuring multi-user access to your PayPal account.
Financial Information
Use the Financial Information column to organize and maintain the financial instruments
associated with your PayPal account: manage your credit cards and bank accounts, activate
and manage your PayPal Debit Card, maintain multiple currency balances, and view your
monthly account statements.
Selling Preferences
Use the Selling Preferences column to organize the way you sell with your PayPal account,
including:
z Branding PayPal’s payment pages
z Streamlining purchases with Website Payment Preferences:
– Account Optional
–Auto Return
– Automatic calculation of shipping, handling, and sales tax
z Payment receiving preferences for blocking certain kinds of payments
z Getting customers’ contact telephone numbers
z Language encoding your data
The majority of this chapter focuses on using Selling Preferences.
Correspondence Between Profile Settings and HTML Variables
Many Profile settings have equivalent HTML FORM variables that can control the behavior of
individual transactions. After you enable a setting in your Profile, you can include FORM
variables with a transaction to take advantage of that Profile setting. See the following sections
for more information:
z “Overriding Page Style Settings On Individual Transactions” on page 33
z “Overriding Tax Setting on Individual Transactions” on page 46
z “Overriding Shipping Calculation on Individual Transactions” on page 46
z “Setting the Character Set: charset” on page 93
z “Setting Return URL on Individual Transactions” on page 93
z “Desired Currency on Individual Transactions” on page 93