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

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Getting Started

You can start accepting payments with PayPal in 5 easy steps:

Step 1 - Sign Up: Go to

https://www.paypal.com/ and click the Sign Up link in the upper right-

hand corner of the page. Click the Business link to sign up for a Business account, as shown in

the following diagram. Make sure to write down the email address you use and the password

you choose; in the future, you will use them to login to your PayPal account.

FIGURE 3.1 Business Account Sign-up

Step 2 - Confirm Email Address: After completing the two-page signup, PayPal will send

you an email to confirm your email address. Open your email and click the link in the email

we sent you. You will be taken to a PayPal page and asked to enter your password, as shown in

the following diagram. Once you have successfully entered your password, your email address

will be confirmed.

IMPORTANT:PayPal representatives will never ask you for your password, and will never

ask you to enter your password or financial information in an email or send

such information in an email. If you believe someone has learned your

password, please change it immediately and contact PayPal customer service

as soon as possible.