Integration Guide

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Contribution Payments – Donate Buttons
Creating Advanced Donate Buttons on the PayPal Website
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– Use your own button – Select this radio button to specify the URL of your own button
image that is not hosted by PayPal. Use your own button image if the buttons hosted by
PayPal do not fit the look of your website.
If your image is hosted securely, change the text box to begin with https//.
7. From the Currency dropdown menu, select the currency in which contributions are made;
the dropdown menu automatically selects the currency of your primary balance.
8. Under Contribution amount, select one of the following radio buttons.
– Donors enter their own contribution amount – Select this radio button to let donors
enter their contribution amounts during checkout.
This is the default choice for this feature.
– Donors contribute a fixed amount – Select this radio button and enter a fixed amount
that donors contribute when they click this Donate button.
9. Choose between your merchant ID and your email address.
Select one of the following radio buttons to associate transactions from your button with
your PayPal account.
– Secure merchant account ID – Select this radio button to associate your button with
your PayPal account by using your merchant ID. PayPal assigns a unique merchant ID
to your account and includes it automatically in the code for your button.
Your merchant ID is a more secure way to associate your button with your account than
using your email address. Only PayPal can match your merchant ID and PayPal
account, and your PayPal email address is never exposed in the HTML button code of
your webpages.
This is the default choice for this feature.
– Plain text email – Select this radio button to associate your button with your PayPal
account by using your email address. Select from the email addresses in your PayPal
account. For example, you might select the email address of the person in your
organization who handles order fulfillment or accounting. All payments are deposited to
your PayPal account balance, regardless of which email address receives payments from
this button. Only confirmed email addresses can be used to receive payments.
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.