Integrating PayPal Payments Advanced/ PayPal Payflow Link using the HTTPS API: Part 1

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Recommends Drew Angell · 2013-01 · Stack Overflow · on “Customers pay without ever leaving your website using Paypal”

Payments Advanced is a separate product from Express Checkout. It's part of the PayFlow API, so you need to have an account setup at [LINK] . If you don't already have this then you're probably on a "regular" PayPal account, and you would indeed need to get them to switch you over to PayFlow. Simply applying for Payments Advanced should trigger that action for you, and then they'll send you login credentials for your PayPal Manager. With Payments Advanced you make an API to obtain a secure token from the PayPal server on-the-fly, and then you use that token within some basic HTML code similar to a standard button. This causes the full checkout form to be displayed within an i-frame on your p

Recommends BDarley · 2013-06 · Stack Overflow · on “PayPal Payment Advanced User authentication failed”

Thank you for responding. PayPal has an great example on YouTube [this video] The example uses Curl which I've tried to mimic using WebClient API in vb.net. The example shown from PayPal doesn't mention the dev account. The only accounts mentioned are from PayPal Manager.

Cites Joseph Astrahan · 2014-03 · Stack Overflow · on “Paypal Payments Advanced/Pro Layout C with Recurring Payments?”

I have a Paypal pro account. Following the videos below from paypal explain what I'm trying to do, except that it does not explain how to create recurring billing profile through this method. [this video] [LINK] I understand through the API how to manually create a recurring billing profile through the Direct Payment API (Recurring), but this only works for users that don't want to go through paypal (even though technically it is). For the people that choose to pay through paypal, I believe it brings them to express checkout. How do I create an iframe on my page like the layout C examples in those videos except for recurring billing instead of a 1 time payment? I've read in some documentation som

Cites S. A. Malik · 2014-04 · Stack Overflow · on “Test Account Setup for PayFlow Link and PayPal Payments Advanced”

I am trying to setup a test account to test my module which will work for PayFlow Link and Paypal Payments Advanced. I am following this tutorial [LINK] . The problem is that I don't have "PayPal Express Checkout" feildset in my settings. Here [LINK] is an image of it. The field set also appears in this paypal tutorial on youtube [this video] . Also when ever I try to send a request to payflow api, it always says "User Authentication Failed" although all the parameters are correct. I have setup a test account for Paypal Manager.

Cites user3727204 · 2014-07 · Stack Overflow · on “PayFlow Pro Security Token Generation Error”

As per this video [this video] We only need to add amount and transaction type.I just need to get security token. I don't want to do transaction.

Cites Clint C. · 2014-12 · Stack Overflow · on “Paypal payflow link setup no "PayPal Express Checkout" feildset”

I'm trying to learn and setup embedded payments. I'm following the tutorial at : [this video] In part of that tutorial in paypal manager there is an "PayPal Express Checkout" feildset where you can set a live account email and sandbox account email. When I login to my manager I do not have this feildset to enter this information. It's not there at all. any ideas on what I'm doing wrong or what I have to do to get the Express Checkout fieldset to show up? The end goal is for me to be using it for the purpose in this question Send money to any PayPal account and receive payment notification [LINK]