User Guide

PayPal Merchant Tools
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Website Payments
Turn page views into dollars with PayPal
Website Payments. PayPal provides a variety of
tools to help you grow your business: Buy Now
Buttons, PayPal Shopping Cart, Subscriptions
and Recurring Payments, and Donations.
Buy Now Buttons
Make it even easier for your customers to pay:
add a PayPal payment button anywhere you
use HTML. With Buy Now Buttons, you can
create customized payment buttons to sell
individual items on your website. Your buyers
will be able to make their purchases quickly and
securely on PayPal-hosted payment pages.
Here’s how it works:
1. Click on the Buy Now Buttons link on the
Merchant Tools tab to create a payment
button for your website.
2. Enter the optional item details, then select
a button or use your own image to
customize the look of your button.
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3. Click Add More Options if you want to enter
information about shipping, sales tax,
your logo, and the page users are sent
to after payment. Or, you can let your
buyer fill in the appropriate fields during
purchase.
4. PayPal will generate HTML code which
includes all details of your payment.
Follow the on-screen instructions to
paste this HTML code onto your website
or into your email.
5. You can insert pay buttons right on your
product pages.
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6. Customers clicking on your Buy Now
Button will be taken to a secure PayPal
page to complete the payment.
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Place the button on your website
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Create your payment button in the Buy Now
Button Factory