Integration Guide

Contribution Payments – Donate Buttons
Creating Advanced Donate Buttons on the PayPal Website
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90 June 2012 PayPal Payments Standard Integration Guide
You can switch between the sections as often as you like, until you click the Create Button
button at the bottom of the page. Then, PayPal generates the code for your button and displays
it on the You are viewing your button code page. Copy the code and paste it onto your
webpage, and your payment button is complete.
Saving Donate Buttons in Your PayPal Account
By default, the button creation tool saves payment buttons in your PayPal account. The tool
saves your button and generates the code when you click the Create Button. You must copy
and paste the generated code onto your webpages, whether or not you save your button at
PayPal. The generated code is shorter for saved buttons, because PayPal keeps most of the
information about your button in your account, instead of placing it in the code that you add to
your website.
Saving your payment buttons in your PayPal account has these benefits:
 Your payment buttons are more secure, because the generated code that you add to your
website contains no information that can be tampered with to produce fraudulent payments.
 You can edit the details and options for your payment buttons in your PayPal account,
without changing the button code that you added to your website.
Use the Step 2 section of the button creation tool to control whether your button is saved in
your PayPal account. You can have a maximum of 1,000 saved buttons in your PayPal
account.
Adding Advanced Features to Donate Buttons With HTML Variables
Some advanced features of payment buttons can be specified only with HTML variables. If
you are familiar with HTML programming and the advanced HTML variables supported by
PayPal Payments Standard payment buttons, you can enter them in the button creation tool
before generating the button code.