Integration Guide

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Contribution Payments – Donate Buttons
Creating Donate Buttons with JavaScript Disabled
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Page 1 – Specifying the Basic Features of the Donate Button
To create code for a Donate button or email payment link by using a tool on the PayPal
website with JavaScript disabled:
1. Log in to your PayPal account at
https://www.paypal.com.
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.