Integration Guide

Contents
4 June 2012 PayPal Payments Standard Integration Guide
Generating Code for Payment Buttons and Email Payment Links . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Protecting HTML Code for Payment Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Step 1 – Specifying Basic Features of Your Buy Now Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Step 2 – Tracking Inventory With Your Buy Now Button. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Step 3 – Adding Advanced Features to Your Buy Now Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Copying and Pasting the Buy Now Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Avoiding Problems With Pasted HTML Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Sample HTML Code for Buy Now Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Sample HTML Code for a Basic Buy Now Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Sample Code for a Buy Now Button With Product Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Sample Code for a Buy Now Button With Product Options With Prices. . . . . . . . . 54
Sample Code for a Buy Now Button With Product Options as a Text Box. . . . . . . . 56
Sample HTML Code for a Buy Now Button that Prompts for Quantities. . . . . . . . . 57
Sample HTML Code for a Buy Now Button With Discounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Sample URL Code for a Buy Now Email Payment Link . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Creating Buy Now Buttons with JavaScript Disabled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Getting Started with Buy Now Buttons with JavaScript Disabled . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Creating Advanced Buy Now Buttons With JavaScript Disabled . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Limitations When Creating Buy Now Buttons With JavaScript Disabled . . . . . . . . 73
Enabling JavaScript in Your Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Chapter 2 Contribution Payments – Donate Buttons . . . . . . . . . .75
Getting Started With Donate Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Using the Button Creation Tool for a Basic Donate Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Creating Donate Buttons Before You Create Your PayPal Account . . . . . . . . . . . 77
The Checkout Experience With Donate Buttons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Begin – Donors are Ready to Contribute on Your Website . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
1 – Donors Enter Their Billing Information or They Log In to PayPal . . . . . . . . . . 82
2 – Donors Confirm Their Contribution Details Before Paying. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
3 – Donors View and Print Their PayPal Contribution Confirmations . . . . . . . . . . 84
End – Donors Receive Contribution Authorization Notices by Email . . . . . . . . . . 85
Enhancing the Checkout Experience With Donate Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Managing Contributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Using Email Notices to Track Donate Transactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Using Recent Activity to Track Donate Transactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Using Transaction History to Track Donate Transactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Using Downloadable History Logs to Track Donate Transactions . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Using Instant Payment Notification to Track Donate Transactions . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Creating Advanced Donate Buttons on the PayPal Website. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89