The PayPal Certified Developer program ensures industry-leading quality in the development of applications utilising PayPal's application programming interfaces.
Certified Developers are tested in several knowledge areas around the PayPal products,
- Website Payments Standard - This exam covers Website Payments Standard integration features, application design, PayPal and third-party shopping cart integration, payment verification, and Authorization and Capture (HTML version).
- Express Checkout - This exam covers Express Checkout integration features.
- Payflow Gateway - This exam focuses on Payflow Link and Payflow Pro gateway functionality and configuration and activate and use Payflow Pro live transactions.
- As well as understanding payment card industry standards and compliance.
Ralph Spethmann has successfully completed the PayPal Certified Developer program, August 2009.





