By default, PayPal Express Checkout for PayPal Payments Pro UK displays a "Continue" button and sends the user back to your site expecting a confirmation page before actually making the payment.

This differs from other PayPal checkout procedures and, in my testing, I found that users expected to complete the transaction once on the PayPal web site.

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First way:

Call their premium 0870 support number and pay £??? to be told that they will send you an email with instructions on the procedure which involves sending them a fax then proceed to wait several days for said email without success.

Second way:

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Update: Marzia from the Google App Engine team responded to the post. It is a bug (and, according to yet another update on the forums, this has now been fixed).

Here's Marzia's comment:

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Your choice of payment processors ultimately determines the number of people who can potentially purchase your product or service. Looking at the differences between PayPal and Google Checkout, I couldn't find a comparison of the countries each processor supported so I quickly whipped up my own using the data presented in the country list drop-downs that each processor presents on its sign up page.

Summary

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If you're implementing PayPal Website Payments Pro Direct Payment in Flex, you're most likely going to need a ComboBox of country names and their ISO codes as expected by the PayPal API.

There's some freely available code for HTML but I couldn't find anything for Flex. It only took three find and replaces, however, to transform the HTML code into a lovely little Flex component. Here it is in hopes that it will save someone else the trouble in the future.

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