User's Manual

Testing
Your PayPal Button
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122 May, 2005 Merchant User Manual and Integration Guide
Your PayPal Button
Now that you have the HTML code in your website or in your email, you should test it. Click
the link in the email or click the button on your Web page. A PayPal-hosted payment page
should appear with payment details you specified.
Because your PayPal user information is saved in a cookie on your computer, you will see
your own PayPal username. Your customers will not see your username. Instead:
z If your customer is already a PayPal member, he will see his PayPal username here.
z If your customer is not yet a PayPal member, he will see a sign-up page. To view this from
your computer, click the link that says something like “If you are not Bob Smith, Click
Here.”
After testing in the Sandbox, PayPal recommends testing your button implementation with the
live PayPal system. Here’s an easy way to do it:
1. Sign up for a Personal PayPal account if you don’t already have one, and add a credit card
to the account. This will be your “buyer” account.
NOTE: According to the PayPal User Agreement, you may have both one Personal and one
Premier/Business account. Please do not set up any additional PayPal accounts, as this
may result in your account access being limited.
2. Make sure that your Business/Premier account is Verified. This is your “seller” account.
3. Go to your Web browser and click the button you’ve created. Use the login and password
for your buyer account to purchase the item. You can use penny, $.01, transactions and still
refund the entire amount.
4. Check the results of your button test by looking at the emails received by both accounts and
by viewing the History page for each account. They should be similar to those shown in the
How It Works section.
5. Log in to your seller account and refund the payment. To refund a payment, go to the
Transaction Details page and follow the Refund Payment link at the bottom of the page.
The refund reverses the entire payment, including transaction fees! Remember that you
have 60 days to refund the payment.
This testing method is free of charge and lets you complete the entire process yourself. You
can also have friends or trusted clients buy test items, then refund them, if you would prefer
not to open a second PayPal account.