Integration Guide
Table Of Contents
- Website Payments Standard Integration Guide
- Contents
- Preface
- Single-Item Payments - Buy Now Buttons
- Getting Started With Buy Now Buttons
- The Checkout Experience With Buy Now Buttons
- Begin - Buyers are Ready to Purchase Your Item on Your Website
- 1 - Buyers Enter Their Billing Information or They Log In to PayPal
- 2 - Buyers Confirm Their Transaction Details Before Paying
- 3 - Buyers View and Print Their PayPal Payment Confirmations
- End - Buyers Receive Payment Authorization Notices by Email
- Enhancing the Checkout Experience With Buy Now Buttons
- Managing Buy Now Transactions
- Advanced Features of Buy Now Buttons
- Creating Advanced Buy Now Buttons on the PayPal Website
- Sample HTML Code for Buy Now Buttons
- Sample URL Code for a Buy Now Email Payment Link
- Contribution Payments - Donate Buttons
- Getting Started With Donate Buttons
- The Checkout Experience With Donate Buttons
- Begin - Donors are Ready to Contribute on Your Website
- 1 - Donors Enter Their Billing Information or They Log In to PayPal
- 2 - Donors Confirm Their Contribution Details Before Paying
- 3 - Donors View and Print Their PayPal Contribution Confirmations
- End - Donors Receive Contribution Authorization Notices by Email
- Enhancing the Checkout Experience With Donate Buttons
- Managing Contributions
- Creating Advanced Donate Buttons on the PayPal Website
- Sample HTML Code for Donate Buttons
- Recurring Payments - Subscribe Buttons
- Getting Started With Subscribe Buttons
- The Checkout Experience With Subscribe Buttons
- Begin - Subscribers Are Ready to Sign Up on Your Website
- 1 - Subscribers Enter Their Billing Information or They Log In to PayPal
- 2 - Subscribers Confirm Their Subscription Details Before Signing Up
- 3 - Subscribers View and Print Their Subscription Confirmations
- End - Subscribers Receive Subscription Authorization Notices by Email
- Enhancing the Checkout Experience With Subscribe Buttons
- Managing Subscriptions
- Advanced Features of Subscribe Buttons
- Offering Trial Periods and Introductory Rates With Subscribe Buttons
- Limiting the Number of Billing Cycles With Subscribe Buttons
- Offering Product Options With Subscribe Buttons
- Working With Modify Subscription Buttons
- Working With Unsubscribe Buttons
- Generating Usernames and Passwords With Subscribe Buttons
- Reattempting Failed Recurring Payments With Subscribe Buttons
- Creating Advanced Subscribe Buttons on the PayPal Website
- Sample HTML Code for Subscribe Buttons
- Sample HTML Code for a Basic Subscribe Button
- Sample HTML Code for a Subscribe Button With Trial Periods
- Sample HTML Code for a Subscribe Button With Limits on Billing Cycles
- Sample HTML Code for Subscribe Buttons With Product Options
- Sample HTML Code for a Modify Subscription Button
- Sample HTML Code for an Unsubscribe Button
- Sample HTML Code for a Subscribe Button With Password Management
- Sample HTML Code for a Subscribe Button That Reattempts Payments
- Sample URL Code for Subscribe Email Payment Links
- The PayPal Shopping Cart - Add to Cart and View Cart Buttons
- Getting Started With The PayPal Shopping Cart
- The Checkout Experience With the PayPal Shopping Cart
- Begin - Buyers Add Your Items to the PayPal Shopping Cart
- 1 - Buyers Enter Their Billing Information or They Log In To PayPal
- 2 - Buyers Confirm Their Transaction Details Before Paying
- 3 - Buyers View and Print Their PayPal Payment Confirmations
- End - Buyers Receive Payment Authorization Notices by Email
- Enhancing the Checkout Experience With Add to Cart Buttons
- Managing PayPal Shopping Cart Transactions
- Using Email Notices to Track PayPal Shopping Cart Transactions
- Using Recent Activity to Track PayPal Shopping Cart Transactions
- Using Transaction History to Track PayPal Shopping Cart Transactions
- Using Downloadable History Logs to Track PayPal Shopping Cart Transactions
- Using Instant Payment Notification to Track PayPal Shopping Cart Transactions
- Advanced Features of Add to Cart Buttons
- Creating Advanced PayPal Shopping Cart Buttons on the PayPal Website
- Generating Code for Payment Buttons and Email Payment Links
- Protecting HTML Code for Payment Buttons
- Pricing Items in Multiple Currencies
- Working with View Cart Buttons
- Using the Button Creation Tool for Advanced Add to Cart Buttons
- Creating Advanced Add to Cart Buttons With JavaScript Disabled
- Avoiding Problems With Pasted HTML Code
- Sample HTML Code for Add to Cart Buttons
- Sample HTML Code for View Cart Buttons
- Third-Party Shopping Carts - The Cart Upload Command
- Securing Your Website Payments Standard Buttons
- Creating Protected Payment Buttons on the PayPal Website
- Saving Payment Buttons in Your PayPal Account
- Reconciling Payments Manually Through Transaction History
- Reconciling Payments Through Instant Payment Notification
- Protecting Payment Buttons by Using Encrypted Website Payments
- Blocking Unprotected and Non-encrypted Website Payments
- Using Your PayPal Account Profile
- The Account Profile
- Co-Branding the PayPal Checkout Pages
- Tailoring the Checkout Experience
- Automatic Calculation of Sales Tax
- Displaying the Sales Tax that PayPal Calculates During Checkout
- Accessing Your Sales Tax Rates in Your Account Profile
- Setting Up Domestic Sales Tax Rates
- Setting Up International Sales Tax Rates
- Resolving Overlapping Sales Tax Rates
- Editing or Deleting Sales Tax Rates
- Overriding Sales Tax Calculations on Individual Transactions
- Automatic Calculation of Shipping Charges (U.S. Merchants Only)
- Displaying the Shipping Charges that PayPal Calculates During Checkout
- Shipping Regions
- Shipping Methods
- Shipping Rate Bases
- Shipping Rate Tables
- Shipping Rates and Currencies
- Adding Shipping Rates for the First Time
- Adding Shipping Methods by Using a Wizard
- Viewing, Editing, and Adding Shipping Rates
- Viewing the Configuration of an Existing Shipping Method
- Editing the Configuration Settings of an Existing Shipping Method
- Deleting Shipping Methods
- Examples of Rate Bases and Shipping Calculations
- Overriding Shipping Calculations on Individual Transactions
- Automatic Calculation of Shipping Charges (non-U.S. Merchants Only)
- Blocking Certain Kinds of Payments
- Accessing Your Payment Receiving Preferences to Block Payments
- Blocking Payments From U.S. Payers Without a Confirmed Address
- Blocking Payments in Currencies That You Do Not Hold
- Blocking Payments from Payers With Non-U.S. PayPal Accounts
- Blocking Payments Initiated Through the Pay Anyone Subtab
- Blocking Payments by Credit Card Instead of Bank Account
- Blocking Payments Funded With eChecks
- Adding Your Credit Card Statement Name
- Allowing Multiple Users to Access Your PayPal Account
- Handling Multiple Currencies
- Language Encoding Your Data
- Using Authorization & Capture
- Issuing Refunds
- Testing Payment Buttons in the PayPal Sandbox
- HTML Form Basics for Website Payments Standard
- HTML Variables for Website Payments Standard
- Address Handling (U.S. Merchants Only)
- Country Codes
- Index
Website Payments Standard Integration Guide September 2008 207
The PayPal Shopping Cart – Add to Cart and View Cart Buttons
Creating Advanced PayPal Shopping Cart Buttons on the PayPal Website
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Saving your payment buttons in your PayPal account has these benefits:
z Your payment buttons are more secure, because the generated code that add to your website
contains no information that can be tampered with to produce fraudulent payments.
z You can edit the details and options for your payment buttons in your PayPal account,
without changing the button code that you added to your website.
N OTE: If you change product options, you must copy and paste the code newly generated
by PayPal to replace the code that you pasted previously.
z You can track inventory.
Use the Step 2 section of the button creation tool to control whether your button is saved in
your PayPal account.
Tracking Inventory
PayPal can track inventory for items that you sell with Add to Cart buttons if you save them in
your PayPal account. You can track inventory for the item itself or by its product options.
If you track inventory, PayPal helps you avoid oversold situations. PayPal sends you an alert
by email when your inventory on hand falls to or below the alert level you specify. You have
the option to let oversold transactions go through or to warn buyers and prevent them from
buying more than your quantity on hand.
Use the Step 2 section of the button creation tool to specify the information that PayPal uses to
track inventory. You can have a maximum of 1,000 saved buttons in your PayPal account.
Adding Advanced Features to Add to Cart Buttons With HTML Variables
Some advanced features of payment buttons can be specified only with HTML variables. If
you are familiar with HTML programming and the advanced HTML variables supported by
Website Payments Standard payment buttons, you can enter them in the button creation tool
before the button code is generated.
Use the Step 3 section of the button creation tool to enter advanced HTML variables that you
want to include in your payment button.
For more information, see Step 5 of “Step 3 – Adding Advanced Features to Your Add to Cart
Button” on page 214.
Step 1 – Specifying Basic Features of Your Add to Cart Button
To begin using the button creation tool for Add to Cart buttons:
1. Log in to your PayPal Premier or Business account at
https://www.paypal.com.
The My Account Overview page opens.
2. Click the Profile subtab.
The Profile Summary page opens.
3. Under the Selling Preferences heading, do one of the following: