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Last updated: June 4, 2026
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You can enable settings in the My selling tools section of your PayPal account profile to further configure how your payment buttons work and customize the buyer's checkout experience. For many of these settings, you can include an equivalent HTML variable to control the behavior of individual transactions. To use HTML variables, you'll need to be familiar with HTML programming.
You can enable settings in the
Note: For information about administrative tasks that you can perform from your PayPal account, such as adding users, setting up custom page styles, and managing multiple currency balances, see the Merchant setup and administration guide.
You can include your company logo on the PayPal checkout page. For detailed instructions, see Customize PayPal checkout pages in the Merchant setup and administration guide.
In addition to cobranding the checkout pages, you can customize the buyer's checkout experience further using features that can be configured in your PayPal account profile settings. See Customize the checkout experience in the Merchant setup and administration guide for details on how to configure your PayPal account profile to do the following:
You can also use HTML variables to override some of the above-mentioned features for individual transactions. Using HTML variables to override PayPal account profile features is discussed in each of the following sections.
With Auto return for PayPal payments, buyers are not required to click a button to return to your website after they complete their payments with PayPal. Auto Return applies to all PayPal Payments Standards payment buttons, including Buy Now, Shopping Cart, Subscription, and Donate buttons.
With Auto return for PayPal payments, buyers are not required to click a button to return to your website after they complete their payments with PayPal. Auto Return applies to all PayPal Payments Standards payment buttons, including Buy Now, Shopping Cart, Subscription, and Donate buttons.Auto return in the Merchant setup and administration guide.
If you are using the Subscriptions Password Management feature, you must make sure that Auto return is disabled in order to display the PayPal-generated username and password to the subscriber.
Note: You can use Auto return with subscriptions, which is a separate feature from Subscriptions Password Management.
With Auto return turned on in your account profile, you can set the value of the return HTML variable on individual transactions, which overrides the value of the return URL stored in your PayPal account profile. For example, you might want to redirect payers to a URL on your site that is specific to that person, perhaps with a session-id or other transaction-related data included in the URL.
With Auto return turned on in your account profile, you can set the value of the return HTML variable on individual transactions, which overrides the value of the return URL stored in your PayPal account profile. For example, you might want to redirect payers to a URL on your site that is specific to that person, perhaps with a session-id or other transaction-related data included in the URL.
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="return" value="<The-Page-On-Your-Site-To-Which-Buyer-Returns>;">Note: To receive transaction-related notification data from PayPal, you must turn Payment Data Transfer on. To learn more, see the Payment Data Transfer page.
With PayPal payment buttons (PayPal Payments Standard), you can have PayPal calculate sales tax (also called value-added tax or VAT) automatically. PayPal calculates sales taxes based on rates that you specify in your account profile.
Note: Calculating sales tax is not supported for the Subscribe and Automatic Billing buttons.
You can set up the following types of tax rates:
For more information on setting up this feature in your PayPal account profile settings, see Automatic calculation of sales tax in the Merchant setup and administration guide.
Regardless of a buyer's location, you can override automatic tax calculation on an individual transaction or on individual items in a transaction if you are using the PayPal cart. For more information, see Setting tax on individual items and Setting the tax for the entire cart.
Merchants who use PayPal payment buttons (PayPal Payments Standard) can take advantage of PayPal's automatic shipping charge calculation feature. PayPal calculates shipping charges based on rates that you specify in your account profile.
Note: Calculating shipping charges is not supported for the Subscribe and Automatic Billing buttons.
You can set up shipping rates in your PayPal account profile as follows:
Within shipping regions, you can specify rates for different shipping methods, such as standard and express delivery.
Within shipping regions, you can specify rates for different shipping methods, such as standard and express delivery.calculating shipping charges automatically in the Merchant setup and administration guide.
Sometimes you want to set special shipping rates for certain items, such as especially heavy ones that cost more to ship, or services and digital downloads that do not require shipping.
Sometimes you want to set special shipping rates for certain items, such as especially heavy ones that cost more to ship, or services and digital downloads that do not require shipping.
Websites that use PayPal in different parts of the world work with different languages and different character encoding schemes. PayPal refers collectively to these differences as language encoding. You can set the default language encoding for your checkout pages as well as for the data that you exchange with PayPal. See Configure language encoding in the Merchant setup and administrative guide for details.