Integration Guide

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Recurring Payments – Automatic Billing Buttons
Creating Advanced Automatic Billing Buttons on the PayPal Website
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– By Option – Select this radio button if want to track inventory by product options that
you set up during Step 1 of the button creation tool.
For each option listed, enter a unique item ID, the quantity that you currently have in
stock, and an alert level. PayPal sends you an alert by email when your inventory on
hand for any option falls to or below its alert level.
3. Select the Track profit and loss checkbox to enter information that PayPal uses to track
profit and loss for your item.
You do not have to track inventory to track profit and loss. If you track inventory, you can
track profit and loss only in the same way – either by item or by product option.
If you only track profit and loss and do not track inventory, do one of the following:
– By Item – Select this radio button if you want to track profit and loss regardless of
product options selected by buyers.
– By Option – Select this radio button if you want to track profit and loss by the product
options that you set up during Step 1 of the button creation tool. If you set up product
options with prices, PayPal sets the radio button automatically and you cannot change it.
In the Item ID field, enter a unique ID for the item the button sells, if you did not enter it
during Step 1 of the button creation tool.
In the Price field, enter the cost to you of your item or for each product option. Make sure
to include all your costs to sell the item, including costs to acquire it and handle it until
sold.
4. Under the Do you want to let customers check out even if an item is sold out? heading,
do one of the following:
– Yes, let them checkout – Select this radio button to let buyers check out even when
inventory tracking shows that your item would become oversold. Buyers are not
informed of oversold or out-of-stock situations nor that their items will be on back order
after they complete checking out.
– No, don’t let them buy the item – Select this radio button to prevent buyers from
checking out when inventory tracking shows that your item would become oversold. In
the text box, enter the URL of a page on your website where you want PayPal to send
buyers of oversold items.
”No” is the default choice for this feature.
When the inventory falls to 0, PayPal lets buyers know that the item is completely out.