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Table Of Contents

Preface
Introduction
- PayPal-Supported Currencies
- Additional Information
PayPal Payments Overview
- PayPal Account Optional
- Buy Now and Donations Buttons
- Shopping Cart
- Custom Payment Pages
- Calculating Shipping, Handling, and Tax
- Contact Telephone Number
- Auto Return
- Back-end Integration Methods
  - Instant Payment Notification
  - Payment Data Transfer
- Payment Receiving Preferences
- Refunds
- Multi-User Access
- Reports
- Subscriptions
- Payment Flow Overview
Getting Started
- Managing Your PayPal Merchant Account
  - Account Profile
  - Payment Receiving Preferences
PayPal Account Optional
- Turning PayPal Account Optional On or Off
- Your Customer’s Experience
  - What Your Customer Sees
Creating Buy Now and Donation Buttons
- How Buy Now and Donations Work
  - What Your Customer Sees
  - What You See
- Buy Now and Donations Button Factory
- Notifications You Receive
Creating Shopping Cart Buttons
- How It Works
  - What Your Customer Sees
  - What You See
- PayPal Shopping Cart Button Factory
  - Getting Started
  - Creating Your Shopping Cart Button
- How You Get Your Money
- Notifications You Receive
Adding PayPal to Your Third- party Shopping Cart
- Passing the Aggregate Shopping Cart Amount to PayPal
  - Passing Individual Items to PayPal
Custom Payment Pages
- Examples of Custom Payment Pages
- Getting Started
- Adding a Page Style
- Editing a Page Style
- Previewing a Page Style
- Making a Page Style Primary
- Removing a Page Style
- Overriding Page Style Settings
- Background Colors and Error Messages
Calculating Shipping, Handling, and Tax
- Getting Started
- Sales or Value Added Tax Collection
  - Overriding Tax Setting Per Transaction
- Shipping Calculation
Creating Customer Contact Telephone
- How It Works
  - What You See
  - What Your Customer Sees
- Getting Started
- Notifications You Receive
Auto Return
- How Auto Return Works
- Setting Up Auto Return
- Subscription Password Management and Auto Return
Backend Integration - Payment Notifications
- Emails
- Reporting
- Instant Payment Notification (IPN) and Payment Data Transfer (PDT)
- Payment Data Transfer
- Instant Payment Notification (IPN)
- Processing Refunds
Using Multiple Currencies
- Receiving Money
  - Accepting Payments
  - Managing Currency Balances
Language Encoding for Your Data
- Background Information
- Changing Your Language Encoding
- Setting Language in Website Payments: charset
Testing
- Website Payments, PDT, and IPN
- Your PayPal Button
  - Testing Tips
  - Third-Party IPN Testing Solutions
Processing eChecks
- Blocking eChecks
- Refunding eChecks
Security
- Notification Validation
- Button Encryption
- Multi-User Access
  - Getting Started
- Using Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
  - General Information
  - SSL Certificate Providers
HTML Samples
- PayPal Buy Now and Donation Buttons HTML and Variables
- PayPal Shopping Cart HTML and Variables
- Prepopulating Your Customer’s PayPal Sign-Up
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
- ISO 3166 Standard Country Codes

Language Encoding for Your Data

Setting Language in Website Payments: charset

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different encoding, click the No, use radio button and select the desired encoding from the

associated drop-down menu.

Setting Language in Website Payments: charset

In the HTML for your PayPal website payment buttons, such as for Buy Now, Website

Payments, Website Payments Express, you can use the charset HTML variable to specify

the character set or character encoding of the data you collect in your website forms and send

to PayPal. PayPal sends data to you in the same character set or encoding you specify with the

charset variable. For a complete list of the allowable values for the charset variable , see

Table 14.1, “Character Sets and Encodings Supported by PayPal.”

TABLE 14.1 Character Sets and Encodings Supported by PayPal

Big5 (Traditional

Chinese in Taiwan)

EUC-JP

EUC-KR

EUC-TW

gb2312 (Simplified

Chinese)

gbk

HZ-GB-2312

(Traditional Chinese

in Hong Kong)

ibm-862 (Hebrew

with European

characters)

ISO-2022-CN

ISO-2022-JP

ISO-2022-KR

ISO-8859-1

(Western

European

Languages)

ISO-8859-2

ISO-8859-3

ISO-8859-4

ISO-8859-5

ISO-8859-6

ISO-8859-7

ISO-8859-8

ISO-8859-9

ISO-8859-13

ISO-8859-15

KOI8-R

(Cyrillic)

Shift_JIS

UTF-7

UTF-8

UTF-16

UTF-16BE

UTF-16LE

UTF16_Platform

Endian

UTF16_Opposit

eEndian

UTF-32

UTF-32BE

UTF-32LE

UTF32_Platform

Endian

UTF32_Opposit

eEndian

US-ASCII

windows-1250

windows-1251

windows-1252

windows-1253

windows-1254

windows-1255

windows-1256

windows-1257

windows-1258

windows-874 (Thai)

windows-949

(Korean)

x-mac-greek

x-mac-turkish

x-mac-

centraleurroman

x-mac-cyrillic

ebcdic-cp-us

ibm-1047