Integration Guide

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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PayPal drops sold-out items from the transaction if buyers proceed with checkout.
”No” is the default choice for this feature.
3. Select the Track profit and loss checkbox to enable entering 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 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 want to track profit and loss by product options
that you specified during “Step 1 – Specifying Basic Features of Your Add to Cart
Button” on page 271. If you set up product options with prices, the button creation tool
automatically selects this radio button and you cannot chnage it.
Enter the cost to you of your item or for each product option. Include the price that you pay
to acquire the item, as well as other activity costs that you incur, such as warehousing,
quality control, and administrative overhead.
4. Do one of the following: