Integration Guide

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Contribution Payments – Donate Buttons
Creating Advanced Donate Buttons on the PayPal Website
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To learn more about Instant Payment Notification, see “Instant Payment Notification –
notify_url” on page 415 and the
Instant Payment Notification Guide.
Creating Advanced Donate Buttons on the PayPal Website
Read the following topics to learn more about creating advanced Donate buttons on the PayPal
website:
 “The Basic Steps for Using the Tool With Donate Buttons” on page 89
 “Saving Donate Buttons in Your PayPal Account” on page 90
 “Adding Advanced Features to Donate Buttons With HTML Variables” on page 90
 “Generating Code for Payment Buttons and Email Payment Links” on page 91
 “Protecting HTML Code for Payment Buttons” on page 91
 “Step 1 – Specifying Basic Features of Your Donate Button” on page 91
 “Step 2 – Saving Your Donate Button in Your PayPal Account” on page 94
 “Step 3 – Adding Advanced Features to Your Donate Button” on page 95
 “Copying and Pasting the Donate Code” on page 97
The Basic Steps for Using the Tool With Donate Buttons
The button creation tool for Donate buttons is a single webpage with three sections:
 Step 1 – Choose button type and enter payment details – This section lets you specify
the details of your Donate button. You can specify whether donors enter their own
contribution amount or a fixed amount.
 Step 2 – Save your buttons (optional) – This section lets you control whether to save your
button in your PayPal account.
 Step 3 – Customize advanced features (optional) – This section lets you work with
advanced features of Donate buttons. If you are familiar with HTML programming and the
advanced HTML variables supported by PayPal Payments Standard buttons, you can enter
them here.
One section at a time is open for you to work with. To work with another section, click its step
bar to expand it.