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
Using Multiple Currencies
Receiving Money
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currency you do not hold, you will be asked to Accept or Deny the payment as shown in the
following diagram:
z Accept the payment and open a new currency balance.
z Accept the payment and convert it to your primary currency.
z Block the payment.
You can also set up your Payment Receiving Preferences to indicate how you would like to
handle incoming currency payments.
Receiving fees are assessed in the currency in which the funds were sent. Payments converted
to your primary currency are converted at a competitive exchange rate.
To learn more about receiving money in multiple currencies, see the Multiple Currencies
FAQs in the PayPal online Help Center.
If you use Instant Payment Notification (IPN), see Table B.3, “IPN and PDT Variables:
Shopping Cart Information” on page 152 for more information about Multiple Currencies
variables.