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Authorising a payment

You can continue using PayPal Express Checkout Shortcut
The PayPal Express Checkout Shortcut integration (paypal_ecs) uses Hosted Payment Pages (HPP), but is not included in the HPP deprecation plan.

We are working on an alternative for the PayPal Express Checkout Shortcut integration with HPP.

If the payment is authorised on PayPal, the authResult URL parameter Adyen returns is authResult=PENDING. Send us a payment authorisation request to complete the PayPal Express Checkout transaction. Provide authentication credentials. You configure these details in the library you use for server-to-server communication with the Adyen payments platform. The username is automatically retrieved when you initiate a payment and should to match the username value you specify when you authenticate to send your authorise API call.

A predefined username is ws@Company.[YourCompanyAccount]. You set the corresponding password in the Customer Area > Developers > API credentials. The payment request authorise API call you make to Adyen always should include the payment token you receive from us in the payment.token HTTP POST return field as a key/value pair entry in the additionalData container object. Also, the paypal_ecs value that you passed in the brandCode field with the initial HTTP POST message while initiating the payment.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:com="http://common.services.adyen.com" xmlns:pay="http://payment.services.adyen.com" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
   <soapenv:Header />
   <soapenv:Body>
      <pay:authorise>
         <pay:paymentRequest>
            <pay:additionalData>
               <pay:entry>
                  <pay:key xsi:type="xsd:string">payment.token</pay:key>
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               </pay:entry>
            </pay:additionalData>
            <pay:amount>
               <com:currency>EUR</com:currency>
               <com:value>600</com:value>
            </pay:amount>
            <pay:browserInfo>
               <com:acceptHeader>text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,/;q=0.5</com:acceptHeader>
               <com:userAgent>Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6</com:userAgent>
            </pay:browserInfo>
            <pay:billingAddress>
               <com:city>Amsterdam</com:city>
               <com:country>NL</com:country>
               <com:houseNumberOrName>1</com:houseNumberOrName>
               <com:postalCode>1000 AB</com:postalCode>
               <com:stateOrProvince />
               <com:street>Main St.</com:street>
               <pay:holderName>Joe Black</pay:holderName>
            </pay:billingAddress>
            <pay:deliveryAddress>
               <com:city>Utrecht</com:city>
               <com:country>NL</com:country>
               <com:houseNumberOrName>2</com:houseNumberOrName>
               <com:postalCode>9999 XY</com:postalCode>
               <com:stateOrProvince />
               <com:street>Second St.</com:street>
            </pay:deliveryAddress>
            <pay:selectedBrand>paypal_ecs</pay:selectedBrand>
            <pay:merchantAccount>TestMerchant</pay:merchantAccount>
            <pay:reference>ref123456</pay:reference>
            <pay:shopperEmail>testmerchant@example.com</pay:shopperEmail>
            <pay:shopperName>
               <com:firstName>Mary</com:firstName>
               <com:gender>UNKNOWN</com:gender>
               <com:infix />
               <com:lastName>Lou</com:lastName>
            </pay:shopperName>
            <pay:shopperReference>YOUR_UNIQUE_SHOPPER_ID_IOfW3k9G2PvXFu2j</pay:shopperReference>
            <pay:shopperStatement>ADIDAS</pay:shopperStatement>
         </pay:paymentRequest>
      </pay:authorise>
   </soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>

<pay:additionalData>
   <pay:entry>
      <pay:key xsi:type="xsd:string">payment.token</pay:key>
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      </pay:value>
   </pay:entry>
</pay:additionalData>

Include the paypal_ecs brandCode

...
 <form id="adyenForm" name="adyenForm" onsubmit="return formValidate(this ,'default' );" autocomplete="off" method="post" action="https://live.adyen.com/hpp/skipDetails.shtml">
 ...
 <input type="hidden" value="paypal_ecs" name="brandCode">
 ...
 </form>
 ...

In the payment request authorise API call, you need to pass the paypal_ecs value in the selectedBrand field:

...
 <pay:selectedBrand>paypal_ecs</pay:selectedBrand>
 ...