Integration Guide

PayPal Payments Standard Integration Guide June 2012 195
Recurring Payments – Automatic Billing Buttons
Managing Automatic Billing Agreements
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For more information, see:
 “Co-Branding the PayPal Checkout Pages” on page 349
 “HTML Variables for Displaying PayPal Checkout Pages” on page 434
Returning Buyers to Your Website After They Check Out
The basic checkout experience ends on a PayPal webpage. Use one of the following
techniques to enhance the basic checkout experience so that it ends on your website:
 Return URL – Let buyers return to a page on your website by clicking a link or button on
the PayPal payment confirmation page.
To learn more, “HTML Variables for Displaying PayPal Checkout Pages” on page 434.
 Auto Return – Have PayPal return buyers to a page on your website automatically.
To learn more, see “Auto Return” on page 351.
Filling Out the Checkout Pages With Billing Addresses
The basic checkout experience has forms for filling out billing and shipping addresses. PayPal
lets you pass in these addresses when you initiate checkout processes.
Enhance the checkout experience by filling out the billing and shipping addresses for the
buyer, if you gather that information from buyers on your website. Use the shipping address
and billing address HTML form variables to pass the information that you have. PayPal
displays the forms during checkout with the fields filled out automatically. Buyers are more
likely to complete their payments when there is less data for them to re-enter.
To learn more, see “Filling Out FORMs Automatically with HTML Variables” on page 411.
To learn which HTML variables to use, see “HTML Variables for Filling Out PayPal
Checkout Pages Automatically” on page 439.
Managing Automatic Billing Agreements
PayPal offers tools and features to help manage your automatic billing agreements.
 “Using the Recurring Payments Dashboard to Track Automatic Billing Plans” on page 195
 “Using Recent Activity to Track Automatic Billing Payments” on page 196
 “Billing Your Customer Automatically” on page 197
Using the Recurring Payments Dashboard to Track Automatic Billing Plans
PayPal displays Automatic Billing plans in the Recurring payments dashboard, soon after
buyers complete checkout.
1. Log in to your PayPal account.