Integration Guide
Table Of Contents
- Website Payments Pro Hosted Solution Integration Guide
- About This Guide
- Intended Audience
- Revision History
- Documentation Feedback
- Getting Started with Website Payments Pro Hosted Solution
- Integrating Your Website Using HTML
- Customising Your PayPal Payment Page
- Integrating iFrame in Your Website
- Integrating Your Website Using API
- Testing Your Integration in Sandbox
- Order Processing
- Protecting Buttons by Using Encrypted Website Payments
- Public Key Encryption Used by Encrypted Website Payments
- Setting Up Certificates Before Using Encrypted Website Payments
- Generating Your Private Key Using OpenSSL
- Generating Your Public Certificate Using OpenSSL
- Uploading Your Public Certificate to Your PayPal Account
- Downloading the PayPal Public Certificate from the PayPal Website
- Removing Your Public Certificate
- Using Encrypted Website Payments to Protect Your Payment Buttons
- Blocking Unprotected and Non-encrypted Website Payments
- Optional API Operations
- Moving from Website Payments Standard to Hosted Solution
- Error Messages
- Currency Codes
- Index
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Getting Started with Website
Payments Pro Hosted Solution
Overview
Website Payments Pro provides an all-in-one package of a gateway, a merchant account, and a
virtual terminal. There are a number of options to integrate Website Payments Pro, either
through a shopping cart, through Direct Payment API, or using a PayPal hosted integration -
Website Payments Pro Hosted Solution.
Hosted Solution is the fast and easy way to add transaction processing to your website. It is a
secure, PayPal-hosted, web-based payment solution that allows you to securely send your
buyers to PayPal’s payment page to authorise and process transactions. Buyers pay with a
debit or credit card, or their PayPal account and you do not have to capture or store credit card
information on your website, thereby helping towards achieving PCI compliance.
Hosted Solution is the choice for merchants who prefer a solution where all financial details
are handled by PayPal.
In addition to Hosted Solution, PayPal recommends that you implement the PayPal Express
Checkout button on your website. The button appears much earlier in the payment flow and
gives existing PayPal account holders the opportunity to use PayPal, thereby increasing the
transaction completion rate.
Features and Benefits
Here are the features and benefits of Hosted Solution:
PCI compliance - Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standards (DSS) is a global
security standard which applies to all businesses that collect, store, process, or transmit
card holder information. You can use PayPal’s hosted payment page as part of the PCI
compliance solution for your business.
N OTE: Hosted Solution implementation helps achieving PCI compliance, and does not
necessarily guarantee it.
Supports iFrame - PayPal offers a compact payment form that can be integrated in an
iFrame on your website. The buyer completes the payment on your website and you can
maintain the checkout look and feel in the master frame that surrounds the compact
form.The credit card fields are part of the compact form so you do not have to collect this
information separately. For more information, refer to Chapter 4, “Integrating iFrame in
Your Website.