Integration Guide

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Recurring Payments – Subscribe Buttons
Creating Advanced Subscribe Buttons on the PayPal Website
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Step 2 – Tracking Inventory With Your Subscribe Button
Use the Step 2 section of the button creation tool to control whether to save the important
details your button in your PayPal account and to provide inventory tracking information for
your item.
For more information, see “Tracking Inventory” on page 144.
1. Select the Save button at PayPal checkbox to save your button in your PayPal account
and to enable your ability to track inventory for your item.
2. Select the Track inventory checkbox to enable entering information that PayPal uses to
track inventory for your item. Then, do one of the following:
– By Item – Select this radio button if you want to track inventory regardless of product
options selected by subscribers.
Enter the quantity that you currently have in stock and an alert level. PayPal sends you
an alert by email when your inventory on hand falls to or below the alert level.
– By Option – Select this radio button if want to track inventory by product options that
you specified during Step 6 of “Step 1 – Specifying Basic Features of Your Subscribe
Button” on page 144.
For each option listed, enter a unique item ID, the quantity that you currently have in
stock, and an alert level. PayPal sends you an alert by email when your inventory on
hand for any option falls to or below its alert level.
Under the Can customers buy an item when it is sold out? heading, do one of the
following:
– Yes – Select this radio button to let subscribers checkout and authorize their payments,
even when inventory tracking shows that your item would become oversold. Buyers are
not informed of oversold or out-of-stock situations nor that their items will be on back
order after they complete their transactions
– No – Select this radio button to prevent subscribers from checking out and authorizing
their payments when inventory tracking shows that your item would become