Integration Guide

Table Of Contents
Recurring Payments – Automatic Billing Buttons
Creating Advanced Automatic Billing Buttons on the PayPal Website
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You can switch between the sections as often as you like, until you click the Create Button
button at the bottom of the page. Then, PayPal generates the code for your button and displays
it on the You are viewing your button code page. Copy the code and paste it onto your
webpage, and your payment button is complete.
Saving Automatic Billing Buttons in Your PayPal Account
The button creation tool saves payment buttons in your PayPal account, by default. The tool
saves your button and generates the code when you click the Create Button button.
Make sure you copy and paste the generated code onto your webpages, regardless of whether
you save your button at PayPal. The generated code is shorter for saved buttons. PayPal keeps
most of the information about your button in your account, instead of placing it in the code that
you add to your website.
Saving your payment buttons in your PayPal account has these benefits:
Your payment buttons are more secure. The generated code that you add to your website
contains no information that can be tampered with to produce fraudulent payments.
You can edit the details and options of your payment buttons from a central location in
your PayPal account. Otherwise, you must search the pages of your website to find your
buttons so you can edit their details.
NOTE: To change product options for saved payment buttons, copy the code that PayPal
newly generates and paste it onto the pages of your website to replace the code that
you pasted there previously.
You can track inventory and profit and loss for the items that your buttons sell.
Use the Step 2 section of the button creation tool to control whether your button is saved in
your PayPal account. Your PayPal account holds a maximum of 1,000 saved buttons.