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Merchant User Manual and Integration Guide May, 2005 53
Creating Buy Now and Donation Buttons
Buy Now and Donations Button Factory
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If you will be sending your customers the payment link via email: Copy the code from the
For Emails text box by highlighting all of the text and pressing Ctrl+C, or by highlighting all
of the text, right-clicking on your mouse, and choosing Copy.
Open the email you wish to send.
Paste the code you just copied into your email by either pressing Ctrl+V or by right-clicking
on your mouse and selecting the Paste option.
When your customers receive the email, the code will appear as a link. Clicking the link will
take them to your PayPal payments page.
NOTE: If you enable button encryption, you will not be able to create an email link.
Creating a Donations Button
Step 1: Enter the details for your donations.
NOTE: All fields are optional.
– Donation Name/Service: Enter the reason for payment or the name of your
organization/charity here. If you do not enter anything in this field, your donors may
complete this field.
– Donation ID/Number: You may use this field to differentiate payments (e.g. to enter a
campaign name). This field will not be displayed to your donors at the time of payment,
but they will see it in their transaction details on the PayPal website.
– Donation Amount: If you would like to collect a pre-determined amount, you may enter
it in the Donation Amount field. If you would like your donors to determine their
donation amounts, do not enter a price in this field. Users will be prompted to enter a
donation amount when they make payment.
NOTE: If you leave the Donations Amount field blank, your donors can choose the
amounts of their donations.
– Currency: Choose the currency in which you would like this payment to be
denominated. This field will default to the currency of your primary balance.
Step 2: Choose a Donations button to put on your website
Choose the image for the button you would like your donors to click to make their purchase.
To display your own image, enter the URL of the image’s location in the URL field.
If you are also creating an email link, continue to Step 8. If you have no further details to add
to your Donations button, click Create Button Now. Otherwise, click Add More Options.
Step 3: Customize Your Payment Pages
– Custom Payment Page Style: Give your donors a seamless payment experience by
customizing PayPal's payment pages to match the style of your website. If you have
already added Custom Payment Page Styles in your Profile, they will be listed here.
Choose the page style you would like to appear when your donor clicks your Donate
button. To learn more about creating page styles, Chapter 8, “Custom Payment Pages.”