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Moving from Website Payments Standard
to PayPal Pro
If you are moving from Website Payment Standard to PayPal Pro, you must make the
following changes:
1. In the FORM tag, change the cmd value in the action attribute
from:
<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick">
to:
<form
action="https://securepayments.paypal.com/webapps/HostedSoleSolutionApp/
webflow/sparta/hostedSoleSolutionProcess?cmd=_hosted-payment"
method="post"><input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_hosted-payment">
2. Change HTML variable amount to subtotal.
NOTE: Website Payment Standard has separate values for amount and quantity, whereas
PayPal Pro uses subtotal only. Ensure that the subtotal includes the amount you
want to charge the buyer, taking into account any applicable discount and the
quantity of items.
3. If you have already customised your checkout flow, such as color and background, you will
need to redo those settings for PayPal Pro. For more information about customising the
look and feel of your payment page, refer to
Chapter 3, “Customising Your PayPal
Payment Page” on page 23.