Integration Guide

Website Payments Standard Integration Guide September 2008 211
The PayPal Shopping Cart – Add to Cart and View Cart Buttons
Creating Advanced PayPal Shopping Cart Buttons on the PayPal Website
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IMPORTANT: Your email address is a less secure way to associate your button with your
PayPal account than by using your merchant ID. Your email address is
exposed on webpages wherever you paste the HTML code for your button.
11. Do one of the following:
– Click the Create Button button if you specified all the features for your button.
Follow the instructions for “Copying and Pasting the Add to Cart Code” on page 216.
– Click the Step 2 bar if you want PayPal to track inventory levels for your item or if you
do not want to save your button in your PayPal account.
Follow the instructions for “Step 2 – Tracking Inventory With Your Add to Cart Button”
on page 211.
– Click the Step 3 bar if you want to specify advanced features for your button, such as
prompting buyers for item quantities.
Follow the instructions for “Step 3 – Adding Advanced Features to Your Add to Cart
Button” on page 214.
Step 2 – Tracking Inventory With Your Add to Cart Button
Use the Step 2 section of the button creation tool to control whether to save the important
details your button in your PayPal account and to provide inventory tracking information for
your item.
For more information, see “Tracking Inventory” on page 207.
1. Select the Save button at PayPal checkbox to save your button in your PayPal account
and to enable your ability to track inventory for your item.
2. Select the Track inventory checkbox to enable entering information that PayPal uses to
track inventory for your item. Then, do one of the following:
– By Item – Select this radio button if you want to track inventory regardless of product
options selected by buyers.
Enter the quantity that you currently have in stock and an alert level. PayPal sends you
an alert by email when your inventory on hand falls to or below the alert level.