Integration Guide

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Recurring Payments – Subscribe Buttons
Creating Advanced Subscribe Buttons on the PayPal Website
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3. Under the Selling Preferences heading, do one of the following:
– Click the My Saved Buttons link, and then click the Create new button link in the
upper right of the page, if you previously saved payment buttons in your PayPal account.
To create a new button that is similar to a button that you saved, find the saved button in
the list. Then, click the Action dropdown menu at the right and click the Create similar
button link.
– Click the Create New Button link, if you have no buttons saved in your PayPal account.
The Create PayPal payment button page opens.
4. In the Accept payments for dropdown menu, select “Subscriptions and recurring billing”.
5. Enter the payment details of your subscription (optional).
– Subscription name – (optional) Enter a name for the subscription; for example, enter
“Alice’s Monthly Digest”. If you do not enter anything in this field, your subscribers can
complete this field during checkout.
– Subscription ID – (optional) If you offer different kinds of subscriptions, such as
monthly and annual payment plans, enter an identifying code for this subscription.
If you want to set up your subscription so that PayPal tracks inventory levels, enter a
value that is unique among all the items that you sell by subscription and want PayPal to
track. For more information, see Step 2 of “Step 2 – Tracking Inventory With Your
Subscribe Button” on page 149.
6. Customize your button with product options (optional).
Do any of the following: