User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- PayPal Payments Overview
- Getting Started
- PayPal Account Optional
- Creating Buy Now and Donation Buttons
- Creating Shopping Cart Buttons
- Adding PayPal to Your Third- party Shopping Cart
- Custom Payment Pages
- Calculating Shipping, Handling, and Tax
- Creating Customer Contact Telephone
- Auto Return
- Backend Integration - Payment Notifications
- Using Multiple Currencies
- Language Encoding for Your Data
- Testing
- Processing eChecks
- Security
- HTML Samples
- 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
Creating Buy Now and Donation Buttons
Notifications You Receive
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Notifications You Receive
You can be notified of payments in these three ways: email, history transaction log, and
downloadable history transaction log.
You can be notified of payments in these four ways: email, history transaction log,
downloadable history transaction log, and (if you have activated it) Instant Payment
Notification (IPN).
Email
You receive an email notification in the following cases:
z Successful Payment
z Pending Payment
z Cancelled Payment
If you do not want to receive payment notifications via email:
1. Click the Profile subtab of the My Account tab.
2. Click the Notifications link from the left-hand menu.
3. Find the Payment Notifications heading and clear the I receive PayPal Website
Payments and Instant Purchase checkbox.
4. Click Save.
History
Your transaction history log (“History”) contains information about your payments. Each
payment will have one of these options as its status:
z Completed: The transaction was successful and the money was credited to your account.
z Cleared: The eCheck payment has cleared the sender’s account and has been credited to
your account.
z Uncleared: The eCheck payment has not cleared the sender’s account yet.
Downloadable Logs
Log in to your PayPal account, go to the History subtab of the My Account tab and choose
the Download My History link in the Quick Links menu. Click the All Activity radio button
or enter the dates of the entries you want to download, choose the type of file you would like
to download (Comma delimited, Tab delimited, Quicken, or QuickBooks), and click
Download My History. The downloaded file will contain a record of all of your payments.