Integration Guide

Single-Item Payments – Buy Now Buttons
Creating Advanced Buy Now Buttons on the PayPal Website
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56 September 2008 Website Payments Standard Integration Guide
and follow the instructions for “Page 2 – Specifying Advanced Features of Your Buy Now
Button” on page 56.
– or –
If you entered all the basic and advanced features for your button, go to “Copying and
Pasting the Buy Now Code With JavaScript Disabled” on page 59.
Page 2 – Specifying Advanced Features of Your Buy Now Button
Use the Buy Now buttons – Page 2 page to specify advanced features of your button with
JavaScript disabled.
1. Add option fields to your button.
Option fields lets buyers select or specify options when they purchase the item, such as
color or size. Options must not change the price of the item.
Buy Now 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 buyers 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, “Size” or “Color”. 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. 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 Buy Now links in email messages for items with options, either
send HTML emails with links to Buy Now buttons on your website that
have option fields, or ask buyers to enter the option information in the Note
field.
2. Customize your payment pages.
Use these settings to give donors a visually seamless payment experience by customizing
the PayPal payment pages to match the visual style of your website.
– Primary Page Style – (display only) The payment pages that your donors see are
displayed with the page style that is specified here, unless you select a different custom
payment page style below.
– Custom Payment Page Style – (optional) If you already added Custom Payment Page
Styles in your account profile, they are listed here. Choose the page style that you would
like to appear when buyers click your Buy Now button.
To learn more about creating page styles, see “Co-Branding the PayPal Checkout
Pages” on page 267.
– Preview – Click the Preview button to see a mock-up of the payment page style that
donors see when they click your Buy Now button.