Integration Guide

Contribution Payments – Donate Buttons
The Checkout Experience With Donate Buttons
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84 September 2008 Website Payments Standard Integration Guide
z Prepopulating the Checkout Pages With Billing Addresses
z Returning People to Your Website After They Check Out
Co-Branding the Checkout Pages with Your Logo and Colors
The basic checkout experience displays your email address or your business name in the upper
left corner of the checkout pages. You can enhance the checkout experience by setting up
custom page payments in your account profile to specify logos and colors that match the style
of your website. PayPal uses the logo and colors to display the checkout pages. In addition,
you can specify logos and colors with advanced HTML variables that you add to the code of
your button.
For more information, see:
z “Co-Branding the PayPal Checkout Pages” on page 267
z “HTML Variables for Displaying PayPal Checkout Pages” on page 358
Prepopulating the Checkout Pages With Billing Addresses
The basic checkout experience has forms for filling in billing addresses. You can enhance the
checkout experience by prepopulating the forms with information that you have on your
website about the donor.
To learn more, see “HTML Variables for Prepopulating PayPal Checkout Pages” on page 361.
Returning People to Your Website After They Check Out
The basic checkout experience leaves people on the PayPal website after they check out. Use
one of the following techniques to enhance the checkout experience so that people return to
your website, instead.
z Return URL – Let people return to a page on your website if they click a return link or
button on the PayPal payment confirmation page.
To learn more, see Step 2 of “Page 2 – Specifying Advanced Features of Your Donate
Button” on page 100 or “HTML Variables for Displaying PayPal Checkout Pages” on
page 358.
z Auto Return – Have PayPal return people automatically to a page on your website.
IMPORTANT: PayPal recommends that you turn Payment Data Transfer on when you
turn Auto Return on. With Auto Return on, PayPal redirects people to your
website from an alternative PayPal payment confirmation page that does
not display a View Printable Receipt link, so people cannot print PayPal
payment receipts. Payment Data Transfer provides the transaction
information that you need to let people print receipts from your website.
To learn more, see “Auto Return” on page 271.
z Payment Data Transfer – PayPal includes information about the completed transaction
when you use a return URL or Auto Return to send people back to your website. Use the
information that Payment Data Transfer provides to display a “thank you, print your
receipt” page on your website.
To learn more, see the Order Management Integration Guide
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