About This Guide

Audience

This guide is written for application developers who want to use the CyberSource Simple Order API to integrate PayPal Express Checkout into their order management system.

Implementing PayPal Express Checkout services requires software development skills. You must write code that uses API request and reply fields to integrate PayPal Express Checkout services into your existing order management system.

Purpose

This guide describes tasks you must complete to integrate PayPal Express services into your existing order management system.

Conventions

The following special statements are used in this document:

 

A Note contains helpful suggestions or references to material not contained in this document.

 

An Important statement contains information essential to successfully completing a task or learning a concept.

 

A Warning contains information or instructions, which, if not heeded, can result in a security risk, irreversible loss of data, or significant cost in time or revenue or both.

The following text conventions are used in this document:

Table 1

Text Conventions

Convention	Meaning
boldface	Boldface type indicates API field names in text, API service names in text, and graphical user interface elements that you must act upon.
italic	Italic type indicates book titles and first use of special terms.
Screen text	Monospace type indicates code in examples or possible values for API fields.

Related Documentation

■	Getting Started with CyberSource Advanced for the Simple Order API (PDF | HTML) describes how to get started using the Simple Order API.

■	The Reporting Developer Guide (PDF | HTML) describes how to download reports:

Refer to the Support Center for complete CyberSource technical documentation:

http://www.cybersource.com/support_center/support_documentation

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