User Guide

Button Manager NVP API April 2012 13
PayPal Payments Standard Button Manager API Overview
Granting Third-Party Permission for APIs
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You create the Hosted Solution checkout link dynamically when your buyer attempts to check
out. For example, when your buyer clicks your check out button, you call the
BMCreateButton API operation to create the link and then redirect the buyer’s browser to
PayPal using the link. The buyer then pays on the PayPal Hosted Solution page. After making
the payment, PayPal returns the buyer to the page you specified when you created the link.
HTML variables control the presentation of the Hosted Solution pages, the information
contained on the pages, and pages to which your customer can be returned to when leaving
Hosted Solution pages. For an example of setting up HTML variables, see Using the Button
Manager API With Hosted Solution Checkout. For more information about Hosted Solution
and the HTML variables that you can use, see the Hosted Solution Guide.
Granting Third-Party Permission for APIs
If you allow a shopping cart or another party to create buttons on your behalf, you must grant
the party permission to execute Button Manager API operations for you.
To grant third-party permissions
1. Log in to your PayPal account.
2. Select My Account Profile.
3. Click API Access from the Profile Summary.
4. Click Grant API Permission.
5. Click Configure a custom API authorization.
6. Enter your Partner API username, as specified by your shopping cart or third party.
7. Check each Button Manager API you want to provide access to:
8. Click Submit.