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Recurring Payments – Subscribe Buttons
Creating Advanced Subscribe Buttons on the PayPal Website
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– Click the Use your own button image link.
An additional radio button and text box appear.
–In the Button Image URL text box, enter the URL of your button image.
If your image is hosted securely, change the entry to begin with https//.
9. Specify whether to use button encryption.
– Select the Yes radio button to encrypt the generated code for the payment button.
– or –
– Select the No radio button to leave the generated code for the payment button and the
email payment link as clear text.
PayPal highly recommends that you use button encryption to protect the HTML code of
your payment button. Encryption protects payment details from fraudulent alteration by
third parties, thus increasing the security of the payments you accept. However, consider
the limitations that encryption imposes:
– Encrypted HTML code cannot be edited.
Select the No radio button if you want to edit the HTML code for your button after the
code is generated.
– Encrypted HTML code cannot be used for email payment links.
Select the No radio button if you want to create an email payment link instead of or in
addition to your button.
If you select the No radio button for any reason, use an alternative strategy described in
Chapter 6, “Securing Your Website Payments Standard Buttons” to secure the payments
you receive from the payment button or the email payment link.
IMPORTANT: Merchants with significant payment volume are required to take
precautions on securing Website Payment Standard buttons.
10.If you have additional details to specify for your button, such as a custom payment page
that has your own logo and colors, or you want PayPal to generate a Cancel Subscription
button, click the Add More Options button and follow the instructions for “Page 2 –
Specifying Advanced Features of Your Subscribe Button” on page 159.
– or –
If you entered all the details and options for your button, go to “Copying and Pasting the
Subscribe Code With JavaScript Disabled” on page 162.
Page 2 – Specifying Advanced Features of Your Subscribe Button
Use the Subscriptions & Recurring Payments – Page 2 page to specify the following
additional details for your button.