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
Contents
6 May, 2005 Merchant User Manual and Integration Guide
Your Customer’s Experience. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
What Your Customer Sees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Chapter 5 Creating Buy Now and Donation Buttons . . . . . . . . . .43
How Buy Now and Donations Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
What Your Customer Sees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
What You See . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Buy Now and Donations Button Factory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Getting Started. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Creating a Buy Now Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Creating a Donations Button. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
How You Get Your Money . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Notifications You Receive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Email . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Downloadable Logs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Instant Payment Notification (IPN). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Chapter 6 Creating Shopping Cart Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59
How It Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
What Your Customer Sees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
What You See . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
PayPal Shopping Cart Button Factory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Getting Started. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Creating Your Shopping Cart Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
How You Get Your Money . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Notifications You Receive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Email . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Downloadable Logs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Instant Payment Notification (IPN). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Chapter 7 Adding PayPal to Your Third-party Shopping Cart . . . . .71
Passing the Aggregate Shopping Cart Amount to PayPal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Passing Individual Items to PayPal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Chapter 8 Custom Payment Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .73