Integration Guide

Recurring Payments – Installment Plan Buttons
Creating Advanced Installment Plan Buttons on the PayPal Website
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230 June 2012 PayPal Payments Standard Integration Guide
Saving Installment Plan 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.
Tracking Inventory and Profit and Loss for Installment Plan Buttons
If you save payment buttons in your PayPal account, PayPal can track inventory and can track
profit and loss for the items that your buttons sell. PayPal can track inventory and profit and
loss for items themselves or separately by product options.
Use the Step 2 section of the button creation tool to specify the information that lets PayPal
track inventory and profit and loss.
Tracking Inventory
If you track inventory, PayPal helps avoid oversold situations. PayPal sends an alert by email
when your inventory on hand falls to or below the alert level you specify. You can let oversold
payments go through, or you can warn buyers and prevent them from specifying more than
your quantity on hand.
Tracking Profit and Loss
If you track profit and loss, PayPal helps you understand the profitability of your items. Enter
the cost of your item, and PayPal provides profit and loss reports based on the volume of sales.
Make sure to include all you costs to sell the item, including costs to acquire it and handle it
until sold.