Integration Guide

Recurring Payments – Subscribe Buttons
Creating Advanced Subscribe Buttons on the PayPal Website
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– Payment Data Transfer – Click the Edit button to turn Payment Data Transfer on or off
for all your payment buttons.
For more information about Payment Data Transfer, see the Order Management
Integration Guide.
– Cancel Payment URL – (optional) Enter the URL for the page on your website that you
want subscribers redirected to if they cancel their payments at any point before
completing the checkout. If you do not enter a URL, subscribers who cancel are taken to
a PayPal webpage. The URL that you enter is used by this payment button only.
5. Select your shipping preferences.
Select the radio button that matches your need to collect addresses from subscribers:
Make shipping optional – Select this radio button if you want to prompt subscribers to
enter their addresses as an option.
– or –
Yes, require shipping – Select this radio button if you want to require subscribers to enter
their addresses.
– or –
No shipping needed – Select this radio button if you do not require addresses from
subscribers.
6. If you want to change any of the details that you entered on the previous page, click the
Edit button and follow the instructions for “Page 1 – Specifying the Basic Features of the
Subscribe Button” on page 156, beginning with Step 5.
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If you have entered all the details and options for your button, go to “Copying and Pasting
the Subscribe Code With JavaScript Disabled” on page 162.
Copying and Pasting the Subscribe Code With JavaScript Disabled
After you enter the details and options that you want for your Subscribe button, click the
Create Button Now button. PayPal generates Subscribe code for:
z a payment button, which you can paste onto your website
z an email payment link, which you can paste into email
z optionally, a button and an email link to let subscribers cancel their subscriptions
The Add a Subscribe button to your website page displays the generated code.
Copying and Pasting the HTML Code for the Subscribe Button With JavaScript
Disabled. To copy and paste the HTML code for the Subscribe payment button:
1. Click the HTML code for Websites text box to select all of the generated HTML code.
2. Copy the text that you selected to the clipboard, by:
– pressing Ctrl+C.
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