Integration Guide
Table Of Contents
- Preface
- How Website Payments Standard Works
- Using Your Merchant Account Profile and Tools
- The Account Profile Summary
- Branding PayPal’s Payment Pages
- Streamlining Purchases with Website Payment Preferences
- Blocking Certain Kinds of Payment
- Adding Your Credit Card Statement Name
- Getting Customer Contact Telephone Numbers
- Language Encoding Your Data
- Multi-User Access to Your PayPal Account
- PayPal-Supported Currencies
- Issuing Refunds
- Single-Item Payment: Buy Now and Donations
- Multiple-Item Payment: Shopping Cart
- Encrypted Website Payments
- Testing in the PayPal Sandbox
- Website Payments Standard HTML FORM Basics
- Website Payments Standard HTML Variables
- Country Codes
- Index
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List of Tables
Table 1.1 How To Use This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Table 1.2 Hyperlinks for Fees, Security, User Agreement, Policies, Online Help, and
Customer Service 24
Table 1.3 PayPal Technical Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Table 2.1 Order of Page Style Customization Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Table 2.2 PayPal-Supported Currencies, Currency Codes, and Maximum Transaction
Amounts 56
Table 4.1 Required Third-Party Shopping Cart Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Table 5.1 How Encrypted Website Payments Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Table 7.1 Allowed Values for cmd Variable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Table 7.2 Character Sets and Encodings Supported by PayPal . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Table A.1 Allowed Values for cmd Variable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Table A.2 HTML Variables: IPN Control notify_url. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Table A.3 HTML Variables: Item Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Table A.4 HTML Variables: Display Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100
Table A.5 HTML Variables: Transaction Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .103
Table A.6 HTML Variables Specific to Shopping Carts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .104
Table A.7 HTML Variables: Individual Items in Third-Party Shopping Carts . . . . .104
Table A.8 HTML Variables: Prepopulating PayPal FORMs or Address Overriding . .105
Table A.9 HTML Variables: Prepopulating Business Account Sign-up . . . . . . . .106
Table B.1 ISO 3166 Two-Character Country Codes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .109