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Recurring Payments – Subscribe Buttons
Creating Advanced Subscribe Buttons on the PayPal Website
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edit the code later to change the item price. If you remove code protection, you must use other
methods that PayPal recommends to secure your payment button. Click the Protect code link
to restore the button protection that you removed.
IMPORTANT: Merchants with significant payment volume are required to take precautions
on securing Website Payment Standard buttons. For more information,
Chapter 6, “Securing Your Website Payments Standard Buttons.”
To copy and paste the HTML code for your Subscribe payment button:
1. Click the Select Code button on the Websites tab to select all of the generated HTML
code.
2. Copy the text that you selected to the clipboard, by:
– pressing Ctrl+C.
– or –
– right-clicking your mouse, and selecting Copy.
3. In your web editing tool, open the webpage where you want the button to be seen.
IMPORTANT: Be sure that your tool is ready for you to paste HTML code, such as by
switching to an HTML view from a design view of your webpage.
4. Paste the text that you copied from the clipboard onto your webpage where you want the
button to appear, by:
– pressing Ctrl+V.
– or –
– right-clicking your mouse, and selecting Paste.
Copying and Pasting the Code for the Subscribe Email Payment Link. The Email tab
on the You are viewing your button code page contains the generated URL code for your
Subscribe email payment link.
N OTE: PayPal cannot protect the URL code for email payment links. Secure the payments you
receive from email payment links by using an alternative method that does not involve
encryption, as described in Chapter 6, “Securing Your Website Payments Standard
Buttons.”
To copy and paste the URL code for your Subscribe email payment link:
1. Click the Select Code button on the Email tab to select all of the generated URL code.
2. Copy the text that you selected to the clipboard, by:
– pressing Ctrl+C.
– or –
– right-clicking your mouse, and selecting Copy.
3. Open the email template or message that you want to send.