Integration Guide

Table Of Contents
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Contribution Payments – Donate Buttons
Creating Advanced Donate Buttons on the PayPal Website
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information about your button in your account, instead of placing it in the code that you add to
your website.
Saving your payment buttons in your PayPal account has these benefits:
z Your payment buttons are more secure, because the generated code that add to your website
contains no information that can be tampered with to produce fraudulent payments.
z You can edit the details and options for your payment buttons in your PayPal account,
without changing the button code that you added to your website.
Use the Step 2 section of the button creation tool to control whether your button is saved in
your PayPal account. You can have a maximum of 1,000 saved buttons in your PayPal
account.
Adding Advanced Features to Donate Buttons With HTML Variables
Some advanced features of payment buttons can be specified only with HTML variables. If
you are familiar with HTML programming and the advanced HTML variables supported by
Website Payments Standard payment buttons, you can enter them in the button creation tool
before the button code is generated.
Use the Step 3 section of the button creation tool to enter advanced HTML variables that you
want to include in your payment button.
For more information, see Step 5 of “Step 3 – Adding Advanced Features to Your Donate
Button” on page 93.
Step 1 – Specifying Basic Features of Your Donate Button
To begin using the button creation tool for Donate buttons:
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, do one of the following: