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Our requirements for Paypal Integration seems customized from the Paypal's available products. Paypal documentation is a bit vague to figure out the differences down to earth.

I would like to choose between Paypal Payments Pro, Payments Advanced and Payflow Gateway or any other product that satisfies.

Our Requirements:

  1. Customer should be able to pay with their Paypal account using Paypal Credentials without leaving our website (Also trying to avoid iFrame. Is there any other way?).
  2. Would like to use Paypal's Internet Merchant Account (In future might switch to any other merchant account).
  3. Need support for Non-US Currencies also (services to be launched world-wide in future).
  4. Total transaction value would be not less than $3,000/month.(can be disregarded initially).
  5. Authorization, Capture and Void Payment methods also required.

Payments Advanced seems to work for 1,2,4.

Payflow Gateway seems to work for 1,3,4,5.

Payments Pro is supported by Paypal Express Checkout, which is usually a redirection to Paypal Website. So requirement 1 is ruled out.

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If a buyer pays with their PayPal Account they will be redirected to PayPal so they can log into their PayPal Account, this is how PayPal works.

If you want people to stay on your Website you need to get setup with PayPal Payments Advanced and they will stay on your website in iFrame.
PayPal Payments Advanced Getting Started Guide

Payflow Pro is straight credit card processing so no PayPal Account is used to process these payments.

Express Checkout is using PayPal so it does not work in an iFrame and it will redirect to the PayPal login Page by design.

Your other option is the embedded checkout design here is the documentation on it
PayPal Embedded Checkout Design Integration Guide

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  • That helps. But then why [Payflow Gateway](https://developer.paypal.com/docs/classic/products/payflow-gateway/) states **"Merchants can host checkout pages on their website or let PayPal host the checkout on their secure servers."** – Lakshminarayanan Guptha May 29 '14 at 06:43
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    Payflow Gateway allows you to use iFrames (Hosted Checkout Pages redirecting to PayPal in an iFrame) or simply keep the credit card customer on the merchant's website. So for non PayPal transactions, ie straight credit card processing, Payflow Gateway can be used on your website to process credit cards. All PayPal transactions still require redirecting to PayPal for log in. – pp_MSI_Jenn May 29 '14 at 16:51
  • Wish that could be still clearly mentioned in the documentation for a good understanding. – Lakshminarayanan Guptha May 30 '14 at 03:51