User Guide
Table Of Contents
- Button Manager API (NVP)
- Preface
- Intended Audience
- Revision History
- PayPal Payments Standard Button Manager API Overview
- Using the Button Manager API With NVP
- Button Manager API Reference
- HTML Variables for PayPal Payments Standard
- Technical HTML Variables
- HTML Variables for Individual Items
- HTML Variables for Payment Transactions
- HTML Variables for Shopping Carts
- HTML Variables for Recurring Payments Buttons
- HTML Variables for Displaying PayPal Checkout Pages
- HTML Variables for Filling Out PayPal Checkout Pages Automatically
- HTML Variables for the Instant Update API
Button Manager NVP API April 2012 27
Button Manager API Reference
BMCreateButton API Operation
3
BMCreateButton Response
The response contains an ID if the button is hosted on PayPal, and code for HTML in a
website and for a link in email.
BMCreateButton Response Fields
BMCreateButton Errors
Switzerland de - German; default
fr - French
en - English
United States
en - English; default
fr - French
es - Spanish
zh - Chinese
Field Description
WEBSITECODE HTML code for web pages
EMAILLINK Code for email links, links in other documents that support external links, and
links to the Hosted Solution checkout flow
HOSTEDBUTTONID ID of a PayPal-hosted button or a Hosted Solution token
Error
Code Short Message Long Message Correcting This Error...
10001 Internal Error Internal Error
11923 Invalid Argument The button image value specified is
invalid.
11924 Invalid Argument The button image URL specified is
invalid.
11925 Invalid Argument The button type specified is invalid.
11926 Invalid Data One of the parameters specified using
ButtonVar is invalid.
11927 Invalid Argument The buy now button text specified is
invalid.
11928 Invalid Argument The email or merchant ID specified is
invalid.
Country Button Language Options