What Is Paypal Payments Standard?

PayPal Payments

You can make a payment for a single item purchase or a full shopping cart. You can also create payment buttons to accept donations, set up a subscription or automate billing. Tracking inventory, shipping fees and taxes, and getting profit and loss information are some of the things that can be included in your payment button.

You can completely change the checkout page with advanced options. You need a PayPal Business or PayPal Premier account to create payment buttons. There are no setup fees or cancellation fees.

Per-transaction fees are shown in the information about the merchant fees. Pay with payment buttons in any country where PayPal is accepted. You can convert a currency balance into multiple currency balances in your account.

A Note on Using PayPal to Update Your Button Code

You can set the return URL on each transaction to make sure that the value you have stored on PayPal is not affected. You might want to return the payer's browser to a URL that is specific to that payer, perhaps with a session ID or other transaction-related data included in the URL. Do not write button code yourself.

The hosted_button_id variable is generated by PayPal. If you use your own value, results are not predictable. You should not write code for saved buttons.

The code that PayPal creates is always used. Adding hidden variables to the generated code for saved buttons will not affect the transaction amount. You can make saved buttons more interesting with automatic fill-out variables.

You can accept payments from buyers without having to have a PayPal account. Buyers don't re-enter information that is stored on PayPal when they check out by paying with the online payment service. It is your advantage to encourage repeat buyers to sign up for a PayPal account.

The address shown to the payer is not the one the person wants to see. If the address is invalid, or if the address is not included, no address is shown. The example button code is not publicly available.