Integration Guide
Table Of Contents
- Digital Goods Integration Guide - EC Edition
- Contents
- Preface
- Introducing Digital Goods for Express Checkout
- Integrating Digital Goods for Express Checkout
- Issuing Refunds
- Handling Recurring Payments
- How Recurring Payments Work
- Recurring Payments Terms
- Options for Creating a Recurring Payments Profile
- Recurring Payments With the Express Checkout API
- Recurring Payments Profile Status
- Getting Recurring Payments Profile Information
- Modifying a Recurring Payments Profile
- Billing the Outstanding Amount of a Profile
- Recurring Payments Notifications
- Options For Closing the Lightbox or Mini-browser
- Methods For Integrating Digital Goods Into Flash
- Express Checkout API Fields Supported By Digital Goods
- Revision History
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Integrating Digital Goods for
Express Checkout
This chapter describes how to integrate Digital Goods for Express Checkout with your
website.
“Overview of Digital Goods Integration” on page 19
“Integrating Digital Goods Payments With Express Checkout” on page 22
Overview of Digital Goods Integration
There are two possible ways to integrate the digital goods flow with Express Checkout:
Merchants using PHP can use the PHP Wizard, located here: https://www.paypal-
labs.com/integrationwizard/.
Merchants using other platforms must take the manual approach to integration. Future
releases will feature integration wizards for other platforms.
In either event, when the integration is successfully completed, you will have added the digital
goods JavaScript to the page, set up code to invoke the digital goods flow, and specified URLs
for return and cancel pages.
The following figure summarizes the manual integration steps for the digital goods payments
flow: