User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- PayPal Payments Overview
- Getting Started
- PayPal Account Optional
- Creating Buy Now and Donation Buttons
- Creating Shopping Cart Buttons
- Adding PayPal to Your Third- party Shopping Cart
- Custom Payment Pages
- Calculating Shipping, Handling, and Tax
- Creating Customer Contact Telephone
- Auto Return
- Backend Integration - Payment Notifications
- Using Multiple Currencies
- Language Encoding for Your Data
- Testing
- Processing eChecks
- Security
- HTML Samples
- IPN and PDT Variables
- About These Tables of Variables
- test_ipn Variable in Sandbox
- IPN Variables in All Posts
- Buyer Information
- Basic Information
- Advanced and Custom Information
- Shopping Cart Information
- Currency and Currency Exchange
- Auctions
- Mass Payment
- Subscriptions Variables
- Dispute Notification Variables
- PDT-Specific Variables
- Country Codes
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List of Tables
Table 1.1 PayPal-Supported Currencies, Currency Codes, and Maximum Transation
Amounts 20
Table 1.2 Additional Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Table 8.1 Order of Customization Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Table 14.1 Character Sets and Encodings Supported by PayPal . . . . . . . . . . .120
Table A.1 HTML and Hyperlink Variables for Buy Now and Donations Buttons. . . .133
Table A.2 Shopping Cart Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .138
Table A.3 Third-Party Shopping Cart Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .138
Table A.4 Variables for Individual Items in Third-Party Shopping Carts. . . . . . . .139
Table A.5 Prepopulation Variables for Website Payments . . . . . . . . . . . . . .141
Table A.6 Prepopulation Variables for Account Signup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .142
Table 17.1 IPN and PDT Variables: Buyer Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .146
Table B.1 IPN and PDT Variables: Basic Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .147
Table B.2 IPN and PDT Variables: Advanced and Custom Information. . . . . . . .148
Table B.3 IPN and PDT Variables: Shopping Cart Information . . . . . . . . . . . .148
Table B.4 IPN and PDT Variables: Currency and Currency Exchange Information . .152
Table B.5 IPN and PDT Variables: Auctions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .153
Table B.6 IPN and PDT Variables: Mass Pay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .154
Table B.7 Subscriptions Variables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .156
Table B.8 IPN Variables with Each Subscription Event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .158
Table B.9 Dispute Notification Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .160
Table B.10 PDT-Specific Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .162
Table C.1 ISO 3166 Two-Character Country Codes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .163