User's Manual

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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

PayPal Payments Overview

Shopping Cart

22 May, 2005 Merchant User Manual and Integration Guide

Benefits of Buy Now and Donations Buttons include:

z Easy to implement — no CGI scripting necessary.

z No up-front costs — you’ll have the same low fee schedule used as when you receive other

PayPal payments.

z Sell with ease — PayPal maintains detailed transaction records on the PayPal website.

z Improve buyer experience — with customizable buttons and secure payments, happy

customers become repeat customers.

For more information about Buy Now and Donations Buttons, see Chapter 5, “Creating Buy

Now and Donation Buttons.”

Shopping Cart

When you use PayPal’s free Shopping Cart, your customers can purchase multiple items with

a single payment, browse your entire selection, and view a consolidated list of all their items

before purchasing. The PayPal Shopping Cart is a low-cost way for you to accept credit card

and bank account payments, and can be fully integrated with your website in a few easy steps.

The PayPal Shopping Cart also offers customizable buttons and secure payments to help you

improve your buyer experience, so happy customers become repeat customers.

For more information about PayPal's Shopping Cart, see Chapter 6, “Creating Shopping Cart

Buttons.”

Custom Payment Pages

With our Custom Payment Pages feature, you can tailor PayPal's payment pages to the style of

your website for a truly seamless payment experience. Make PayPal's payment flow yours

with custom page colors and your own images. Custom Payment Pages can be used with all

PayPal Website Payment buttons, including Buy Now, Donations, Shopping Cart, and

Subscriptions.

For more information about Custom Payment Page, see Chapter 8, “Custom Payment Pages.”

Calculating Shipping, Handling, and Tax

You can set up your PayPal account to automatically calculate and charge shipping and sales

(or value added) tax, as well as specify a different tax rate for each of the 50 U.S. states and

any of the countries listed. In addition, you can charge shipping costs as a fixed rate based on

the amount of the total purchase, or as a percentage of the purchase price. You also have the

option to assign shipping amounts to individual products.