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Contribution Payments – Donate Buttons
Creating Advanced Donate Buttons on the PayPal Website
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z Payments clear, fail, or are denied, if the initial status was pending.
To learn more about Instant Payment Notification, see “Instant Payment Notification –
notify_url” on page 343 and the Order Management Integration Guide
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Creating Advanced Donate Buttons on the PayPal Website
Read the following topics to learn more about creating advanced Donate buttons on the PayPal
website:
z “Generating Code for Payment Buttons and Email Payment Links” on page 87
z “Protecting HTML Code for Payment Buttons” on page 87
z “Using the Button Creation Tool for Advanced Donate Buttons” on page 87
z “Creating Advanced Donate Buttons With JavaScript Disabled” on page 97
Generating Code for Payment Buttons and Email Payment Links
When you create Donate buttons with tools on the PayPal website, PayPal generates HTML
code for website payment buttons. Then, you copy and paste the HTML code onto the pages of
your website.
In addition to HTML code, PayPal generates URL code for email payment links. Use email
payment links to add Donate functionality to your email messages. If your web editing tool or
your service provider does not allow you to paste HTML code onto your webpages, you may
be able to paste the URL code for email payment links onto your webpages instead.
Protecting HTML Code for Payment Buttons
When you create Donate code with tools on the PayPal website, PayPal lets your protect the
HTML button code that it generates by encrypting part of it. Protecting the HTML code of
your payment buttons helps protect against malicious tampering and fraudulent payments.
IMPORTANT: Merchants with significant payment volume are required to take precautions
on securing Website Payments Standard buttons.
For more information, see Chapter 6, “Securing Your Website Payments Standard Buttons
Using the Button Creation Tool for Advanced Donate Buttons
Read the following topics to learn how to use the button creation tool for Donate buttons:
z “The Basic Steps for Using the Tool With Donate Buttons” on page 88
z “Saving Donate Buttons in Your PayPal Account” on page 88
z “Adding Advanced Features to Donate Buttons With HTML Variables” on page 89