Customize the Checkout experience
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Last updated: May 8th, 3:51pm
Extend your Checkout integration with these features. We recommend starting with showing a cancellation page and validating user input.
Features
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| App Switch | Streamline checkout by helping buyers finish transactions in the PayPal app. |
| Authorize and capture | Change your checkout integration from a one-step payment solution to a two-step, authorize and capture later solution so you can complete business tasks, like verifying inventory, before finalizing the transaction. |
| Contact module | Help buyers add or modify contact information during checkout. |
| Display funding source | As a best practice, show your buyer the funding source they used for their purchase. |
| Display PayPal buttons with other payment methods | Provide a clean user interface when you present PayPal and other funding sources on your site. |
| Handle errors | Ensure errors returned are handled in the buyer experience. |
| Handle funding failures | Restart a payment when a buyer's funding source fails. |
| Messaging with buttons | Render a message with your payment buttons. |
| Overcharge handling | Direct the buyer to re-authorize a payment when the amount is more than what they agreed to pay for a product or service. |
| Pass buyer identifier | Streamline authentication by passing your buyer's email address to prefill their login in PayPal. |
| Pass line-item details | Pass item descriptions to help buyers verify purchase details in PayPal. |
| Pay another account | Select a different receiver when you create an order. |
| Pay now or continue | Determine whether a buyer completes checkout in PayPal or returns to your website. |
| PayPal Checkout with Single-Page Applications | This guide is for websites that use a library or framework, such as React, Vue, or Angular. |
| Recurring payments module | Implement frictionless transactions for subscriptions, trials, auto-reloads, and other recurring payments. |
| Shipping module | Offer shipping options to your buyer. |
| Show cancellation page | Give buyers clear confirmation when they cancel during the checkout flow. |
| Standalone payment buttons | Render individual payment buttons for each supported payment method. |
| Update order details | Adjust the order and transaction details during the checkout process. |
| Validate user input on your page | Validate web forms before buyers submit data for checkout. |