Integration Guide

Contribution Payments – Donate Buttons
Creating Advanced Donate Buttons on the PayPal Website
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98 September 2008 Website Payments Standard Integration Guide
2. Click the Edit Profile link.
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. Under the Create button without JavaScript enabled heading, click the Donate link.
The Donations page opens.
5. Enter the donation details of your button.
– Donation name/service – Enter the reason for the donation or the name of your
organization. If you do not enter anything in this field, your donors can complete this
field during checkout.
– Donation ID/number – (optional) Enter a value to help identify different kinds of
contribution payments. For example, you might enter the name of your current fund-
raising campaign. The value that you enter is displayed to donors at the time of payment,
and it is displayed in the transaction details that both contribution coordinators and
donors can view on the PayPal website.
– Amount – (optional) Enter a fixed contribution amount. If you leave the field blank,
donors enter their own contribution amount after they click the Donate button.
– Currency – From the dropdown menu, select the currency in which you specified the
fixed contribution amount or in which you want the amounts that donors enter to be
denominated. The dropdown menu automatically selects the currency of your primary
balance.
– Buyer’s default country – From the dropdown menu, select a country for the PayPal
log-in or sign-up page that donors see when they click the button. The content on the
page will be appropriate for the country you select. Donors can change the country that
you select, after the log-in or sign-up page appears.
6. Choose a button style for your Donate button.
Select the radio button next to the image that you want to use, if you are going to be
accepting payments from your website instead of by using an email payment link. The
image that you select is hosted by PayPal.