PayPal Payments Standard Checkout Integration Guide

Peter Kitson

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Introduction


The PayPal Website Payments Standard Checkout Integration Guide provides information about the majority of PayPal\'s features, and instructions for using these features to meet your online payment needs.

Use the Website Payments Standard Checkout Integration Guide to:
  • Quickly and easily set up e-commerce functionality with PayPal. For example, learn how to integrate PayPal into your website in minutes with the PayPal Shopping Cart or Buy Now buttons.
  • Learn more advanced techniques and tools to get the most out of the PayPal products.
  • Understand what your buyers see when they pay with PayPal. For example, review what it means for a new buyer to optionally create a PayPal account using the PayPal Account

Optional feature.
  • View various product flows to better visualize your end product.
  • Review recommended solutions and best practices.

The PayPal Website Payments Standard Checkout Integration Guide includes information about, and instructions for using, the following features:
  • Buy Now Buttons
  • Donations Buttons
  • Shopping Cart Buttons
  • PayPal Account Optional
  • Custom Payment Pages
  • Multi-User Access
  • Shipping, Handling, and Tax
  • Auto Return

PayPal Account Optional

With PayPal Account Optional turned on, your customers who are new to PayPal can make credit card and debit card payments without signing up for a PayPal account. This setting is available from your Profile, and is available to Premier and Business accounts.

PayPal Account Optional is turned on by default for all U.S. Premier and Business accounts. This means that your customers who already have PayPal accounts will go through the same Website Payments experience to which they’re accustomed.

Your new customers, or existing customers who are new to PayPal, will go through a checkout that doesn’t require PayPal signup; however, they will have that option available after completing the payment. Whether customers sign up for a PayPal account or not, you can set your Buy Now, Donations, and Shopping Cart buttons to return them to your website, and you will still receive the same notification emails as in the current checkout flow.

Buy Now and Donations Buttons

PayPal makes it easy to accept donations and payments for single items through your website.

The Buy Now and Donations Buttons feature can be implemented in minutes, giving you easy access to business from PayPal’s millions of members, and any other buyer on the web.

Because using Buy Now and Donations buttons to send and receive payments is secure, both you and your customers remain protected. PayPal automatically encrypts your confidential information using the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol with an encryption key length of 128 bits (the highest level commercially available). Your customers will not need to share their private financial information (e.g. credit card or bank account numbers) during the transaction, so they can complete payment while retaining security. However, using button encryption does impose some limitations, and therefore PayPal offers both encrypted and unencrypted button options.

The flexibility of our Buy Now buttons keeps your website working for you. You can accept payments from current PayPal members as well as people who have just signed up for our service, and you won’t lose your customers after they have made a purchase—the payment process lets you return buyers to your website, not lose them to ours.