Integration Guide

Recurring Payments – Subscribe Buttons
Creating Advanced Subscribe Buttons on the PayPal Website
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1. Add option fields to your button.
Option fields lets subscribers select or specify options when they sign up for a subscription,
such as the choice of HTML or plain text format subscriptions to electronic newsletters.
Options must not change the price of the subscription.
Subscribe buttons can have one or two option fields. You can use a dropdown menu, with
choices that you specify, or a text box, in which subscribers type their option choice.
– Option Field Type – Select either “drop-down menu” or “text box” as the type of option
field.
– Option Name – Enter the name of your option, for example, “Format”. Enter no more
than 60 characters.
– Drop-Down Menu Choices – (if applicable) If you selected “drop-down menu” as the
type of option field, enter the menu choices, for example “HTML” and “Plain Text”.
Choices cannot exceed 30 characters. Use a carriage return (press ENTER) to separate
choices. Enter no more than 10 choices.
IMPORTANT: Option fields cannot be used if you are creating an email payment link. To
include Subscribe links in email messages for items with options, send
HTML emails with links to Subscribe buttons on your website that have
option fields.
2. Create a Cancel Subscription button (optional).
Choose a button style for your Cancel Subscription button, which PayPal generates
automatically when you visit Page 2 to create a Subscribe button.
Select the radio button next to the image that you want to use. The image that you select is
hosted by PayPal.
– or –
To display your own image that you host on your website:
– 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//.
To learn more, see “Working With Unsubscribe Buttons” on page 137.