Integration Guide

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Website Payments Standard Integration Guide September 2008 273

Using Your PayPal Account Profile

Tailoring the Checkout Experience

4. Under Auto Return for Website Payments, click the On radio button to enable Auto

Return.

5. In the Return URL field, enter the URL to which you want your payers redirected after

they complete their payments.

N OTE: If the Return URL you enter is invalid, PayPal displays the standard payment

confirmation page after people complete their payments.

6. Scroll to the bottom of the page, and click the Save button.

Setting Return URL on Individual Transactions

With Auto Return turned on in your account profile, you can set the value of the return

HTML variable on individual transactions, which overrides the value of the return URL that

you stored on PayPal as part of the Auto Return feature. For example, you might want to

redirect payers to a URL on your site that is specific to that person, perhaps with a session-id

or other transaction-related data included in the URL.

To set the return URL for individual transactions, include the return variable in the HTML

Form:

N OTE: To receive transaction-related data from PayPal, you must turn Payment Data Transfer

on. For more information about Payment Data Transfer, see the Order Management

Integration Guide.

Subscriptions Password Management and Auto Return

If you use or plan to use Subscriptions Password Management, you must make sure that Auto

Return is turned off in order to display the PayPal-generated username and password to the

subscriber.