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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organization who handles order fulfillment or accounting. All payments are deposited to
your PayPal account balance, regardless of which email address receives payments from
this button. Only confirmed email addresses can be used to receive payments.
IMPORTANT: Your email address is a less secure way to associate your button with your
PayPal account than by use of your merchant ID. Your email address is
exposed on webpages wherever you paste the HTML code for your button.
12.Do one of the following:
– Click the Create Button button if you specified all the features for your button.
Follow the instructions for “Copying and Pasting the Add to Cart Code” on page 281.
– Click the Step 2 bar if you want PayPal to track inventory levels for your item or if you
do not want to save your button in your PayPal account.
Follow the instructions for “Step 2 – Tracking Inventory With Your Add to Cart
Button” on page 275.
– Click the Step 3 bar if you want to specify advanced features for your button, such as
prompting buyers for item quantities.
Follow the instructions for “Step 3 – Adding Advanced Features to Your Add to Cart
Button” on page 279.
Step 2 – Tracking Inventory With Your Add to Cart Button
Use the Step 2 section of the button creation tool to control whether to save the important
details of your button in your PayPal account and to provide inventory tracking information
for your item.
For more information, see “Tracking Inventory and Tracking Profit and Loss” on page 270.
1. Select the Save button at PayPal checkbox to save your button in your PayPal account
and to enable your ability to track inventory for your item and to track profit and loss.