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
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Creating Shopping Cart Buttons
Notifications You Receive
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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 has one of the following statuses:
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. Choose 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 History. The downloaded file will contain a record of all of your payments.
Instant Payment Notification (IPN)
If you have Instant Payment Notification activated, you will receive an IPN when a payment is
first sent, which will state the status of the payment (Completed or Pending). If the payment
was “Pending,” you will receive another IPN when the payment clears, fails, or is denied.
To learn more about IPN, see “Instant Payment Notification (IPN) ” on page 103.