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Recurring Payments – Subscribe Buttons
Creating Advanced Subscribe Buttons on the PayPal Website
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8. Click the Create Button button.
The You’ve created your button page opens.
9. Click the Create an Unsubscribe button link.
The Create PayPal payment button page opens.
10.Click the Create button button.
The You’ve created your button page opens.
11. Click the Select Code button on the Websites tab to select all of the generated HTML
code.
12.Copy the text that you selected to the clipboard, by:
– pressing Ctrl+C.
– or –
– right-clicking your mouse, and selecting Copy.
13.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.
14.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.
Creating Advanced Subscribe Buttons With JavaScript Disabled
The button creation tool for Subscribe buttons, described above, requires JavaScript. If
JavaScript is disabled in your browser, PayPal automatically offers you an alternative button
creation tool that does not require JavaScript.
Read the following topics to learn how to create Subscribe buttons with JavaScript disabled.
z “The Pages in the Button Creation Tool for Subscribe Buttons” on page 156
z “Page 1 – Specifying the Basic Features of the Subscribe Button” on page 156
z “Page 2 – Specifying Advanced Features of Your Subscribe Button” on page 159
z “Copying and Pasting the Subscribe Code With JavaScript Disabled” on page 162
N OTE: The alternative tool lets you create Subscribe buttons on the PayPal website, but it does
not allow you to save your buttons in your PayPal account.