Integration Guide

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The PayPal Shopping Cart – Add to Cart and View Cart Buttons
Creating Advanced PayPal Shopping Cart 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 Add to Cart Buttons in Your PayPal Account
By default, the button creation tool saves payment buttons in your PayPal account. The tool
saves your button and generates the code when you click the Create Button. You must copy
and paste the generated code onto your webpages, whether or not you save your button at
PayPal. The generated code is shorter for saved buttons, because 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, because 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 for your payment buttons in your PayPal account,
without changing the button code that you added to your website.
NOTE: If you change product options, you must copy and paste the code newly generated
by PayPal to replace the code that you pasted previously.
 You can track inventory, and you can track profit and loss.
Use the Step 2 section of the button creation tool to control whether your button is saved in
your PayPal account.