Speaking with a client of mine today, the topic of how to create a custom paypal button came up. So instead of leaving that bit of information in email space I thought I’d share with anyone else that stumbles upon this blog:

1) Log into paypal
2) Click on “Merchant Services” (dark blue tab in top middle of page)
3) Click on > Website Payments Standard (on left side navigation menu)
4) Now you can choose on what type of item you want to sell:

a) Sell Single Items (This is the case for most people)
b) Sell Mulitple Items
c) Accept Contributions
d) Accept Recurring Payments (great for hosting, & ongoing service contracts or consulting retainers)
e) Sell Gift Certificates

For our purposes we’ll now go into the Sell Single Items menu

5) Click on the > Get Buy Now Buttons link that you see under the orange example button

6) Enter the data you see on this page:

a) Item name/service: (Your customers will see this so make it make sense)
b) Item ID/number: optional
c) Price:
…etc, etc, etc…

The next part is choosing a button. They have a few nice ones you can choose from or you can create and use a custom button for your site.

They have about half a dozen you can choose directly from this page or you can click on “Other button sizes” or “Use your own button image”

Once you’re done choosing or creating your button then scroll to the bottom and click on the “Create Button Now” button…it will then give you some encrypted or html code that you should copy and paste into the source code of your html/form sales page.

The easy way to make sure you copied all of this is by putting your cursor in the box where the code is and then typing Cntrl A wich whill highlight all of the code.

Then type Cntrl C and it will copy it and be ready for you to Cntrl V (paste) it into your html editor.

I hope this helps those of you needing to know how to insert a paypal button on their website. If you have any other questions drop a comment here.

type-atcha-later,
Sean

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