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Securing Your Website Payments Standard Buttons
Creating Protected Payment Buttons on the PayPal Website
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254 September 2008 Website Payments Standard Integration Guide
Creating Protected Payment Buttons on the PayPal Website
Read the following topics to learn about creating protected payment buttons:
z “How Protected Payment Buttons Help Prevent Fraudulent Payments” on page 254
z “Using the Button Creation Tool to Create a Protected Payment Button” on page 254
z “Creating a Protected Payment Button with JavaScript Disabled” on page 255
How Protected Payment Buttons Help Prevent Fraudulent Payments
Protected payment buttons help secure your payments because the HTML button code that
PayPal generates and that you paste onto your webpages is encrypted. HTML button code that
is protected with encryption cannot be altered by malicious third parties to create fraudulent
payments.
You can protect the HTML button code that PayPal generates for all kinds of payment buttons:
z Buy Now buttons
z Donate buttons
z Subscribe buttons
z Buy Gift Certificate
z Add to Cart buttons
N OTE: PayPal cannot protect HTML button code for Add to Cart buttons with JavaScript
disabled in your browser. In such cases, use an alternative strategy to secure your
buttons. See “Reconciling Payments Manually Through Transaction History” on
page 257, and “Reconciling Payments Through Instant Payment Notification” on
page 258.
Using the Button Creation Tool to Create a Protected Payment Button
To create a protected payment button using the button creation tool:
1. Log in to your PayPal Premier or Business account at
https://www.paypal.com.
The My Account Overview page opens.
2. Click the Profile subtab.
The Profile Summary page opens.
3. Under the Selling Preferences heading, click the Create new button link.
The Create PayPal payment button page opens.
4. In the Accept payments for dropdown menu, do one of the following: