Integration Guide

Contribution Payments – Donate Buttons
Creating Advanced Donate Buttons on the PayPal Website
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92 June 2012 PayPal Payments Standard Integration Guide
– 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 Accept payments for dropdown menu, select “Donations.”
5. Enter the details for your payment button.
– Organization name/service – (optional) Enter the purpose for the donation or the name
of your organization. If you do not enter anything in this field, your donors can complete
this field during checkout.
– Donation ID – (optional) Enter a value to help identify different kinds of contribution
payments. For example, you might enter the name of your current fund-raising
campaign. Donors see the value that you entered at the time of payment. The value
appears in the transaction details that contribution coordinators and donors can view on
the PayPal website.
6. Customize the appearance and the language of your button (optional).
Click the Customize appearance link and select one of the following.
– PayPal button – Select this radio button to use a button image that is hosted by PayPal.
You can configure the size of the button, specify whether the button displays payment
card logos, and specify the country and language for the button text.
– Use your own button – Select this radio button to specify the URL of your own button
image that is not hosted by PayPal. Use your own button image if the buttons hosted by
PayPal do not fit the look of your website.
If your image is hosted securely, change the text box to begin with https//.
7. From the Currency dropdown menu, select the currency in which contributions are made;
the dropdown menu automatically selects the currency of your primary balance.