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Asked: 2026-05-22T02:46:31+00:00

I’ll admit, aside from using it to buy stuff, I’m very inexperienced with using

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I’ll admit, aside from using it to buy stuff, I’m very inexperienced with using PayPal for anything. However, the project I’m working on needs a means of payment, and it appears to be the best way for us to do it.

However, seeing PayPal IPN, Express, Adaptive Payment, etc. it’s getting a bit confusing as to which to use.

The desired process:

  1. User selects what they need to pay a deposit on, and how much
  2. User clicks a SEND PAYMENT button
  3. User logs in to PayPal and submits their payment
  4. User is returned to our site

One caveat is that the payment will be sent to one of several accounts. Several clients will be using this system to process new tenants, and would want to get the payment into their own account.

What PayPal method would be the best for use in this situation? What documentation is there for it?

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  1. Editorial Team

    IPN is an additional feature that you can use to track your transactions by means of a POST with transaction data being sent to you by the PayPal side, however, it’s not a PayPal payment solution in itself.
    More information is over at https://www.paypal.com/ipn/

    What you want is fairly easy to accomplish, just swap out the value for ‘business’ in any Website Payments Standard HTML button. E.g.

    <?php
// Var, or a row from a db result
$business-receiver = "test@example.com";
$amt=1;
$name= "Test Holidays";
?>

<form method="post" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr">
<input type="hidden" name="business" value="<?=$business-receiver;?>">
<input type="hidden" name="amount" value="<?=$amt;?>">
<input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Rental agreement for <?=$name;?>">
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Go to PayPal">

    Note: If you want to use IPN in combination with the above, simply add ‘notify_url’ to your button. You don’t have to set it up in your account, which means you can dynamically alter this as well.

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