Integration Guide

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Single-Item Payments – Buy Now Buttons
Creating Advanced Buy Now Buttons on the PayPal Website
1
– Click the Create New Button link, if you have no buttons saved in your PayPal account.
The Create PayPal payment button page opens.
4. In the Choose a button type dropdown menu, select “Buy Now.”
5. Enter the payment details of your item.
– Item name – Enter the name of the item or service that you wish to sell.
– Item ID – (optional) Enter the inventory ID or tracking number of your item, if you
assign such IDs to your products.
If you want to set up your item so that PayPal tracks inventory levels, enter a value that
is unique among all the items that you sell and want PayPal to track. For more
information, see “Step 2 – Tracking Inventory With Your Buy Now Button” on
page 44.
– Price – Enter the price of your item.
If you want to add product options with different prices for each option that buyers can
select, do not enter a price here. For more information, see Step 6 below.
– Currency – Select the currency in which you priced the item; the dropdown menu
automatically selects the currency of your primary balance.
If you want to customize the country and language of the button, make sure that you
select an appropriate currency here. For more information, see Step 7 below.