Creating Buy Now and Donation Buttons

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Buy Now  and Donations Button Factory

Step 4: Shipping and Sales Tax

  Shipping Cost Calculation: If you have already specified shipping rates in your Profile, 

they will be listed here. To learn more about charging for shipping, see 

Chapter 10, 

 Calculating Shipping, Handling, and Tax

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  Sales or Value Added Tax Calculation: If you have already specified your tax rate 

from your Profile, it will be listed here. For more information about charging for tax, see 

Chapter 10,  Calculating Shipping, Handling, and Tax

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Step 5: Add Option fields to your button

Let your customers specify information about their purchases by creating an option field. You 

can use Option fields to specify things like color, size, or gift wrapping. These options you 

allow customers to choose options must not change the price of an item, but let you collect 

additional information from your customer without extra email communication. Each Buy 

Now Button can have up to two option fields, and you canuse a drop down menu or text box to 

collect the information.

Unfortunately, Option fields and button encryption cannot be used if you are creating an email 

hyperlink. If you would still like to send out Buy Now links in emails, you may try either 

sending an HTML email, providing a link to the Buy Now Button (with Option fields) on your 

website, or asking your user to include the optional information in the Note field. 

  Option Field Type: Choose the type of option field: drop down menu or text box. If you 

choose drop down menu, you must enter the different choices. If you choose text box, 

your customers enter their choice.

  Option Name: Enter the name of your option. There is a 60 character limit for the 

Option Name field.

  Drop Down Menu Choices: If you are using a drop down menu, enter your menu 

choices. There is a 30 character limit per choice, with a maximum of 10 choices. Use a 

carriage return (press ENTER) to separate each choice.

Step 6: Customize your payment pages

  Custom Payment Page Style: Give your customers a seamless payment experience by 

customizing PayPal s payment pages to match the style of your website. If you have 

already added Custom Payment Page Styles in your Profile, they will be listed here. 

Choose the page style you would like to appear when your customer clicks your Buy 

Now button. To learn more about creating page styles, see 

Chapter 9,  Custom Payment 

Pages

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Step 7: Customize Your Buyer Experience

  Successful Payment URL: Enter the URL for the page to which you want your 

customer redirected after he has completed his payment. Unless you have enabled Auto 

Return, after customers complete their payments they see a payment completion page. 

From this page, they click Continue and return to the Successful Payment URL you have 

specified. If you do not enter a Successful Payment URL, customers who click this link 

are taken to a PayPal web page. 

  Cancel Payment URL: Enter the URL where you would like to send your customers if 

they cancel their payments at any point in the Buy Now payment flow. If you do not enter 

a Cancel Payment URL, customers who click this link are taken to a PayPal web page.

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