Integration Guide
Table Of Contents
- Express Checkout Integration Guide
- Contents
- Preface
- Introducing Express Checkout
- Express Checkout Button and Logo Image Integration
- PayPal Name-Value Pair API Basics
- Implementing the Simplest Express Checkout Integration
- Testing an Express Checkout Integration
- Customizing Express Checkout
- Implementing the Instant Update API
- Immediate Payment
- Handling Payment Settlements
- Handling Recurring Payments
- How Recurring Payments Work
- Recurring Payments Terms
- Recurring Payments With Express Checkout
- Options for Creating a Recurring Payments Profile
- Recurring Payments Profile Status
- Getting Recurring Payments Profile Information
- Modifying a Recurring Payments Profile
- Billing the Outstanding Amount of a Profile
- Recurring Payments Notifications
- Using Other PayPal API Operations
- Integrating giropay with Express Checkout
Immediate Payment
Overview of Immediate Payment
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From left to right, the following events are represented. The numbered callouts in the figure
directly correspond to the numbered comments below:
1. The eBay flow for third-party checkout redirects the buyer from an eBay payment review
page to your shopping cart page. On your shopping cart page, the buyer initiates Express
Checkout by clicking the Checkout with PayPal button.
2. In the call to the SetExpressCheckout API operation, you must pass the following
Immediate Payment information:
– ALLOWEDPAYMENTMETHOD: This is the payment method type. For immediate payment,
the value is InstantPaymentOnly.
– BUYERUSERNAME: EBay provides you with this value.
– L_EBAYITEMCARTIDn: EBay provides you with this value.
Additionally, in the call to the SetExpressCheckout API operation, you must pass the
following Express Checkout API parameter data:
– CHANNELTYPE: The value of the channel type, which is eBayItem .
– L_EBAYITEMNUMBERn: This is the eBay item number.