Gift Certificates Guide

Table Of Contents

Merchant Gift Certificates Guide October 2009 13

Creating Gift Certificates

Security and Encryption for Buy Gift Certificate Buttons

1. Click the Use your own button image link.

An additional radio button and text box appear.

2. In the Button Image URL text box, enter the URL of your button image.

If your image is hosted securely, change the entry to begin with https//.

Security and Encryption for Buy Gift Certificate Buttons

PayPal employs industry-leading encryption, fraud prevention, and buyer and seller protection

policies to safeguard you and your customers.

By default, PayPal encrypts your button code using the Secure Sockets Layer protocol at an

encryption key length of 128 bits (the highest level commercially available).

Encrypted code provides a higher level of security for your gift certificate transactions because

it appears as meaningless, continuous strings of letters, characters and numbers.

If you have little or no experience with advanced HTML coding, PayPal recommends that you

encrypt your HTML code. On the Merchant Gift Certificates page, in the Button

encryption section, select the Ye s radio button.

If you choose not to encrypt your button code, review ““Editing Your HTML Code” on

page 13 for tips on edits that you can make to unencrypted code to suit your business needs.

Editing Your HTML Code

N OTE: You can edit the HTML code for your Buy Gift Certificate button only if you choose

not to encrypt the code during the creation process.

Editing your HTML code is not advisable unless you have advanced HTML skills or plan to

work with a developer who does.

The following sections demonstrate how to set specific HTML variables for your Buy Gift

Certificate button:

Minimum and Maximum Denominations for Buy Gift Certificate Buttons

When you created your Buy Gift Certificate button, you selected an amount type for your gift

certificates. In addition, you can set the minimum and maximum sale amounts for gift

certificates in the HTML code for the Buy Gift Certificate button.

The sample below sets the minimum amount to $5.00 USD with the min_denom HTML

variable and sets the maximum amount to $1,000.00 USD with the max_denom HTML

variable.