Integration Guide

Contribution Payments – Donate Buttons
The Checkout Experience With Donate Buttons
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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:
 “Co-Branding the PayPal Checkout Pages” on page 349
 “HTML Variables for Displaying PayPal Checkout Pages” on page 434
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 donor information from your website.
To learn more about prepopulation, see “Filling Out FORMs Automatically with HTML
Variables” on page 411.
To learn more about the HTML variables to use, see “HTML Variables for Filling Out PayPal
Checkout Pages Automatically” on page 439
Returning Donors to Your Website After They Check Out
The basic checkout experience leaves donors on the PayPal website after they check out. Use
one of the following techniques to enhance the checkout experience so that donors return to
your website instead of the PayPal website.
 Return URL – Let donors 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 105 or “HTML Variables for Displaying PayPal Checkout Pages” on
page 434.
 Auto Return – Have PayPal return donors 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 donors to your
website from an alternative PayPal payment confirmation page, which does
not allow them to print PayPal receipts. Payment Data Transfer provides
the transaction information that you need to let donors print receipts from
your website.
To learn more, see “Auto Return” on page 351.
 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
Payment Data Transfer webpage on PayPal X Developer Network..