User's Manual

Creating Buy Now and Donation Buttons
Buy Now and Donations Button Factory
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54 May, 2005 Merchant User Manual and Integration Guide
Step 4: Customize Your Donors’ Experience
– Successful Payment URL: Enter the URL where you would like to send your donors
after they have completed payment. Once your donor has completed his payment, he will
see a payment confirmation page. From this page, he will click Click to Continue and
return to the successful payment URL you have specified. If you do not enter a successful
payment URL, donors who click this link will be taken to a PayPal Web page.
– Cancel Payment URL:
Enter the URL where you would like to send your donors if they
cancel a payment at any point in the Donations payment flow. If you do not enter a cancel
payment URL, donors who click this link will be taken to a PayPal Web page.
Step 5: Miscellaneous
– Shipping Address: If you would like your customers to be prompted to provide a
shipping address, choose Yes. If you choose No, your customers will not be asked to
provide a shipping address.
Step 6: Collect additional information from your customers
– Note Title: If you are allowing your donors to include a note with their payment, you
may choose a title for the note field. By including a title, you can prompt your buyers to
enter specific information, such as a User ID, or special instructions. There is a 40-
character limit on your note field title. If you do not enter a title, your customers will see
‘Special Instructions (optional)’ as the note field title.
NOTE: Select Yes if you would like your donors to be able to include a note to you with
their payment. If you select No, your donors will not be given the opportunity to
include a note.
Step 7: Choose an email address to receive payment
If you have more than one confirmed email address attached to your PayPal account, you can
specify the address at which you would like to receive your email payment notifications when
your donors pay you.
Step 8: Copy and Paste the Donations code
When you have finished filling out the Donations Button Factory form, click Create Button
Now.
If your donors will be donating through your website:
1. Copy the code from the
For Web pages text box by highlighting all of the text and pressing
Ctrl+C, or by highlighting all of the text, right-clicking your mouse, and clicking Copy.
2. In your website files, open the code for the Web page from which you wish to collect
payment.
3. Paste the code you just copied into your Web page file wherever you would like the image
to appear (typically, next to the description of the donation service) by pressing Ctrl+V, or
right-clicking on your mouse and selecting Paste.
If you will be sending your donors the Donations link via email: