5

Creating Buy Now and Donation 

Buttons

PayPal makes it easy to accept payments for single items through your website. Buy Now and 

Donations buttons scan be implemented in minutes, giving you easy access to business and 

donors from PayPal's millions of members, and any other buyer on the web. 

Because using Buy Now and Donations Buttons to send and receive payments is secure, both 

you and your customers remain protected. PayPal automatically encrypts your confidential 

information using the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol with an encryption key length of 

128 bits (the highest level commercially available). Your customers will not need to share 

their private financial information (e.g. credit card or bank account numbers) during the 

transaction, so they can complete payment while retaining security. 

The flexibility of our Buy Now and Donations Buttons keep your website working for you. 

You can accept payments from current PayPal members as well as people who have just 

signed up for our service, and you won't lose your customers after they make a purchase  or 

donation the payment process lets you return buyers to your website, not lose them to ours.

Other benefits of Buy Now and Donations Buttons include:

Easy to implement no CGI scripting necessary.

No up front costs you'll have the same low fee schedule used as when you receive other 

PayPal payments.

Sell with ease PayPal maintains detailed transaction records on our website.

Improve buyer experience  customizable buttons and secure payments make happy, 

repeat customers.

Website Payments Standard Checkout Integration Guide

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