Integration Guide

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Recurring Payments – Subscribe Buttons
Creating Advanced Subscribe Buttons on the PayPal Website
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– For Windows or Mac, right-click on the code, and then select Paste.
– For Windows, press Ctrl+V.
– For Mac, press CMD+V.
Copying and Pasting the Code for the Email Payment Link
The Email tab on the You are viewing your button code page contains the generated URL
code for your email payment link.
IMPORTANT: PayPal cannot protect the URL code for email payment links. Secure the
payments you receive from email payment links by using an alternative
method that does not involve encryption
For more information, see “Securing Your PayPal Payments Standard
Buttons” on page 337.
1. Click the Select Code button on the Email tab to select all of the generated URL code.
2. 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.
3. Open the email template or message that you want to send.
4. Do one of the following to paste the text from the clipboard onto your webpage, where you
want the button to appear:
– For Windows or Mac, right-click on the code, and then select Paste.
– For Windows, press Ctrl+V.
– For Mac, press CMD+V.
Avoiding Problems with Pasted HTML Code
After you paste the code onto your webpage or into your email, ensure that it matches exactly
the code that you copied from PayPal. Pasted code may not match the generated code for the
following reasons:
 You did not copy all of the generated code.
 Your editing tool may have special areas for pasting HTML code and other areas for
pasting URLs and display text. Be sure you paste the generated code into a field that
accepts HTML code or URLs.
 Your editing tool might change some characters in the pasted code.