Integration Guide

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Recurring Payments – Subscribe Buttons
Getting Started with Subscribe Buttons
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114 June 2012 PayPal Payments Standard Integration Guide
Follow one of these procedures to get started creating your own Subscribe buttons:
“Creating a Basic Subscribe Button on the PayPal Website” on page 114
“Creating Subscribe Buttons Before You Create Your PayPal Account” on page 115
Creating a Basic Subscribe Button on the PayPal Website
The following instructions create a basic Subscribe button that sets up subscriptions with a
monthly billing cycle that recurs until subscriptions are cancelled.
1. Log in to your PayPal 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, click the My Saved Buttons link.
The My Saved Buttons page opens.
4. In the Related Items box on the right, click the Create new button link.
The Create PayPal payment button page opens.
5. In the Choose a button type dropdown menu, select “Subscriptions.”
6. Enter the payment details of your subscription.
Subscription name – Enter a name for the subscription. For example, enter “Alice’s
Monthly Digest”.
Recurring amount to be billed – Enter the amount you want to bill subscribers for each
monthly billing cycle. For example, enter “20.00”.
7. Scroll to the bottom of the page, and click the Create Button button.
The You've created your button page opens.
8. Click the Select Code button on the Websites tab to select all of the generated HTML
code.
9. Do one of the following to copy the selected text to the clipboard:
For Windows and Mac, right-click on the code, and then select Copy.
For Windows, press Ctrl+C.
For Mac, press CMD+C.
10.In your web editing tool, open the webpage where you want to show the button.
IMPORTANT: Be sure that your tool is ready for you to paste HTML code, such as by
switching to an HTML view from a design view of your webpage.