Integration Guide

Using Your PayPal Account Profile
Tailoring the Checkout Experience
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350 June 2012 PayPal Payments Standard Integration Guide
Overriding Page Styles On Individual Payment Buttons
Your primary page style is applied to all your checkout pages unless you specify otherwise.
You can override this behavior by specifying custom page style variables in the HTML code
of your payment buttons.
To change the page style for a button that you created already, replace the value of the
page_style variable with the page style name you want to use. The next time that someone
clicks the payment button, the checkout pages appear in the new style.
Overriding Co-Branding Options on Individual Payment Buttons
You can specify variables in the HTML code of payment buttons to override specific co-
branding options. These customizing of payment page variables override page styles set in
your account profile or set with the page_style variable. The customizing of payment page
variables takes precedence in the following order:
Order of Page Style Variables
Tailoring the Checkout Experience
Read the following topics to learn how to tailor the checkout experience for people who pay
you with PayPal Payments Standard:
 “Auto Return” on page 351
 “Getting Contact Telephone Numbers” on page 354
 “PayPal Account Optional” on page 356
Custom Option Description
1 Customizing of Payment Page Variables on
Individual Buttons
See “HTML Variables for Displaying PayPal
Checkout Pages” on page 434.
2 Page Style Variable on Individual Buttons With the page_style variable, you can specify a
page style on individual payment buttons that
overrides any page styles set in your account profile.
3 Primary Page Style in Account Profile You can create and set the primary style in your
account profile.
4 Default PayPal Page Style in Account Profile The default page style used when an alternative is not
selected and designated as primary.