Integration Guide

Using Your Merchant Account Profile and Tools
Language Encoding Your Data
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50 November 2005 Website Payments Standard Checkout Integration Guide
IMPORTANT:In accordance with PayPal’s User Agreement, you may use this Contact
Telephone Number only to communicate with the buyer about the related
purchase. You may not use this number for unsolicited commercial messages.
You can make the contact telephone number optional or required, or you can turn it off. “Off”
is the recommended default option because customers value their privacy and prefer to
minimize unsolicited communications.
When you require the buyer’s contact telephone number, your buyer sees the prompt during
purchase.
FIGURE 2.10 Prompt for Customer Contact Telephone Number
Activating Customer Contact Telephone
Follow these steps to activate the Customer Contact Information Telephone option:
1. Log in to your PayPal account at
https://www.paypal.com.
1. Log in to your PayPal account at
https://www.paypal.com/cn.
2. Click the My Account tab.
3. Click the Profile link.
4. Click the Website Payment Preferences link.
5. Select the option you prefer: On (Optional Field), On (Required Field), or Off
(Recommended).
6. Complete the rest of the selections on the page.
7. Click Save.
Language Encoding Your Data
Websites that use PayPal in different parts of the world work with different languages. Human
languages are represented in computing by the terms “character set” and “character encoding”.
A character set is a computer representation of all the individual possible letterforms or word
symbols of a language. For instance, ASCII (or American Standard Code for Information
Interchange) is a common character set that has been used for decades to represent the