Payment Flows through Redirect URL and Smart Buttons

 

In order to integrate with PayPal, you can either use the Redirect URL mechanism (which existed on PayPal previously), or the latest concept, Smart Buttons. If you use the Redirect URL method, shoppers are redirected to a web browser to login to PayPal. If you use Smart Buttons, when the shopper clicks the Smart Button, a pop-up window opens on top of the merchant payment screen. The shopper is not redirected to a new location thus improving the shopper journey.

The PayPal Smart Payment Buttons feature gives you a variety of ways to customize payment buttons on the checkout page. With Smart Payment Buttons, you can choose:

• The size, colour and shape of not just your PayPal checkout button, but also buttons for other, multiple alternative payment methods such as Pay Later.

• The language that appears on the buttons.

• The button layout: horizontal or vertical.

 

See the PayPal Developer Guide, JavaScript SDK script configuration for full information.

 

See the following sections of this guide for information on the overall flow of each of these methods:

• Payment Flow through Redirect URL

• Payment Flow through Smart Payment Buttons