If you are building an ecommerce site it’s likely that you’re using paypal as your payment processing method.  Paypal’s documentation is not bad, but for someone creating a paypal checkout with paypal’s Website Payments Pro package, the documentation can be somewhat overwhelming.  Once you get the hang of it, this documentation will be indispensable.

So what I’m going to explain is paypal’s express checkout feature in the Website Payments Pro package offered.  This is the paypal button that is on the cart of the website.  When clicked the user is redirected to paypal where they log into their account, choose their payment method, are then returned to the cart where they proceed to checkout. My quick disclaimer is that this is the quick and easy way of doing this.  This is just to simplify the process, not how it should actually be implemented on a production site.

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