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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

Managing Your PayPal Merchant Account

credit card used on your PayPal account. If you decide to add additional credit cards to your

PayPal account, you can select any of them as your primary card.

In addition, the credit card billing address you entered when you added your credit card is now

a Confirmed Address. Many sellers require that buyers use their Confirmed Address as their

shipping address when they pay with PayPal. You can use Confirmed Addresses as a positive

indicator of a buyer’s identity. When you ship to a Confirmed Address, you can qualify for

protection under PayPal’s Seller Protection Policy. For more information about PayPal's Seller

Protection Policy, see the PayPal User Agreement, which is available on the PayPal website.

Step 5 - Start Receiving Payments: Now that you’ve set up everything in your PayPal

account, you’re ready to start receiving payments.

Managing Your PayPal Merchant Account

Account Profile

The PayPal account Profile consolidates all of the different settings and preferences for your

account. You can use your Profile to manage all of the information in your PayPal account. To

go to your Profile, log in to your PayPal account and click the Profile subtab of the

Account tab, as shown in the following diagram.

Your Profile is organized in three sections for managing your account information, as shown

in the following diagram.