Account Optional

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Your Customer's Experience

Your Customer's Experience

If you turn PayPal Account Optional off, the customer is required to sign up for a PayPal 

account to complete the payment and then returns to your website.

If you have PayPal Account Optional turned on, the checkout experience for a customer who 

doesn't currently have a PayPal account does not require the PayPal account signup to 

complete the transaction, thus shortening the time and effort necessary on the customer's part. 

What Your Customer Sees

Step 1: Bob goes to Alice's website and clicks Buy Now.

Step 2: Bob is taken to a PayPal Payment Details page which shows the details of the payment 

he is about to make. He is prompted to log in to his PayPal account, but he is not already a 

PayPal member, so he clicks Continue Checkout.

Step 3: Bob is prompted to enter the shipping information for his purchase, and to let Alice 

know if the shipping address he has entered is the same as the billing address on his credit 

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August, 2005 Website Payments Standard Checkout Integration Guide