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Button Manager NVP API April 2012 9

PayPal Payments Standard Button Manager API Overview

Generated Button Code

created through the API. If you can create the button for the specified country using

Create PayPal payment button on PayPal, your merchant will be able to use the button.

This example shows the PayPal code for displaying a hosted Add to Cart button to sell a

wireless mouse:

<form target="paypal" action="https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/cgi-

bin/webscr" method="post">

<table>

<tr><td><input type="hidden" name="on0"

value="Color">Color</td></tr><tr><td><select name="os0">

<option value="Red">Red $10.00

<option value="Blue">Blue $8.00

<option value="Green">Green $12.00

</select> </td></tr>

<tr><td><input type="hidden" name="on1"

value="Size">Size</td></tr><tr><td><select name="os1">

<option value="Small">Small

<option value="Large">Large

</select> </td></tr>

</table>

<input type="image"

src="https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_cart_LG.gif" border="0"

name="submit" alt="">

<img alt="" border="0"

src="https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1"

height="1">

</form>

When you display a web page with this code, this button appears:

PayPal-generated code for a link would be as follows:

https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-

xclick&hosted_button_id=19218

For a link, PayPal does not generate code for options.