Integration Guide

PayPal Payments Standard Integration Guide June 2012 177
Recurring Payments – Subscribe Buttons
Creating Subscribe Buttons with JavaScript Disabled
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10.If you have additional details to specify for your button, such as a custom payment page
that has your own logo and colors, or you want PayPal to generate a Cancel Subscription
button, click the Add More Options button and follow the instructions for “Page 2 –
Specifying Advanced Features of Your Subscribe Button” on page 177.
– or –
If you entered all the details and options for your button, go to “Copying and Pasting the
Subscribe Code with JavaScript Disabled” on page 180.
Page 2 – Specifying Advanced Features of Your Subscribe Button
Use the Subscriptions & Recurring Payments – Page 2 page to specify the following
additional details for your button.
1. Add option fields to your button.
Option fields lets subscribers select or specify options when they sign up for a subscription,
such as the choice of HTML or plain text format subscriptions to electronic newsletters.
Options must not change the price of the subscription.
Subscribe buttons can have one or two option fields. You can use a dropdown menu, with
choices that you specify, or a text box, in which subscribers type their option choice.
– Option Field Type – Select either “drop-down menu” or “text box” as the type of option
field.
– Option Name – Enter the name of your option, for example, “Format”. Enter no more
than 60 characters.
– Drop-Down Menu Choices – (if applicable) If you selected “drop-down menu” as the
type of option field, enter the menu choices, for example “HTML” and “Plain Text”.
Choices cannot exceed 30 characters. Use a carriage return (press ENTER) to separate
choices. Enter no more than 10 choices.
IMPORTANT: Option fields cannot be used if you are creating an email payment link. To
include Subscribe links in email messages for items with options, send
HTML emails with links to Subscribe buttons on your website that have
option fields.
2. Create a Cancel Subscription button (optional).
Choose a button style for your Cancel Subscription button, which PayPal generates
automatically when you visit Page 2 to create a Subscribe button.
Select the radio button next to the image that you want to use. The image that you select is
hosted by PayPal.