Integration Guide

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Website Payments Standard Checkout Integration Guide November 2005 33
Using Your Merchant Account Profile and Tools
Branding PayPal’s Payment Pages
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About Font Colors. PayPal dynamically changes font colors from black to white, depending
on the background color. To confirm that these font changes comply with your font color
selections, you should test your color settings on PayPal.
Making a Page Style Primary
When you make a page style primary, it is applied to all payment pages unless you specify
otherwise on individual transactions.
NOTE: If you do not designate a page style as Primary, the default is the PayPal page style.
To make a page style primary:
1. Begin at the Custom Payment Page Styles page shown in Figure 2.4, “Edit Custom Page
Style Page” on page 31.
2. Click the radio button next to the page style you wish to make your primary style.
3. Click Make Primary.
4. Click Make Primary to confirm your choice.
Overriding Page Style Settings On Individual Transactions
Your primary page style is applied to all payment pages unless you specify otherwise. You can
override this behavior by specifying custom page style variables on individual transactions.
To change the page style for a button you already created, replace the value of the
page_style variable with the page style name you want to use. The next time the button is
clicked, the subsequent payment pages appear in the new style.
When you specify custom payment page variables on individual transactions, the page
variables override page styles set in your Profile or the page_style variable. Customization
variables take precedence in the following order:
TABLE 2.1 Order of Page Style Customization Variables
Custom Option Description
1 Custom Payment Pages
Variables on Individual
Transactions
See
Table A.4, “HTML Variables: Display Information” on
page 100
.
2 Primary Page Style on
Individual Transactions
With the
page_style variable, you can specify a page style
on individual transactions that overrides any page styles set in
your Profile.
3 Primary Page Style in
Profile
You can create and set the primary style in your Profile.
4 Default PayPal Page
Style in Profile
The default page style used when an alternative is not selected
and designated as primary.