Integration Guide

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Using Your PayPal Account
Profile
Use your PayPal account profile settings to control how PayPal Payments Standard works for
people who pay you and how it works to let you accept the payments that they make. Your
PayPal account profile contains the account information, financial information, and selling
preferences for your organization.
Many of the selling preferences that you can set in your account profile have equivalent
HTML variables to let you control the behavior of individual transactions. After you enable
settings in your account profile, you can include HTML variables with a transaction to take
advantage of those settings.
Read the following topics to learn about special profile tasks that interact with developer-
written code:
 Co-Branding the PayPal Checkout Pages
 Tailoring the Checkout Experience
 Automatic Calculation of Sales Tax
 Automatic Calculation of Shipping Charges (U.S. Merchants Only)
 Language Encoding Your Data
NOTE: For information about administrative tasks that you can perform from your PayPal
account, such as adding users, setting up custom page styles, and managing multiple
currency balances, see the
Merchant Setup and Administration Guide.
Co-Branding the PayPal Checkout Pages
Custom payment pages let you tailor the PayPal checkout pages presented to payers to match
the style of your website. Custom payment pages work with all PayPal Payments Standard
buttons. You can add up to three custom page styles. You can add or edit custom payment
pages in your PayPal account profile or use HTML variables to set the custom pages for
individual transactions.
For step-by-step instructions on using your account profile to add or edit custom payment
pages, see the
Merchant Setup and Administration Guide.
For more information about the HTML variables, see “HTML Variables for Displaying
PayPal Checkout Pages” on page 434.