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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Creating Shopping Cart Buttons

How It Works

Step 5: Bob is then prompted to enter his credit card information, email address, and

password, creating his new PayPal account.

NOTE: Existing PayPal users log in to their accounts directly and skip Step 5.