Integration Guide

Recurring Payments – Subscribe Buttons
Creating Advanced Subscribe Buttons on the PayPal Website
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– 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.
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 Cancel Subscription Email Payment Link.
PayPal generates code for the Cancel Subscription email payment link if visit the
Subscriptions and Recurring Payments – Page 2 page to add more options. However,
PayPal does not generate code for email payment links if you select the Yes radio button in the
Button Encryption section on the first page of the button creation tool. To turn button
encryption off, return to the first page and click the No radio button in the Button Encryption
section. Then click the Create Button Now button again.
N OTE: You cannot use Encrypted Website Payments to encrypt the 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 code for the Cancel Subscription email payment link:
1. Select everything in the second text box under the Copy 'Cancel Subscription' Button
HTML heading by clicking the text with your mouse.
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 that you want to send.
4. Paste the text that you copied from the clipboard into your email, by:
– pressing Ctrl+V.
– or –
– right-clicking your mouse, and selecting Paste.
Creating More Subscribe Buttons. After you copy and paste the Subscribe code, you can
create another Subscribe button for a different kind of subscription. Scroll to the bottom of the
Add a Subscribe button to your website page and click the Create Another Button button.
Then follow the instructions for “Page 1 – Specifying the Basic Features of the Subscribe