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Buy Now  and Donations Button Factory

Step 8: Miscellaneous Options

  Quantity: If you would like to let your customers purchase more than one item or 

service, choose Yes. They will be prompted to enter the quantity of the item they want 

to buy. If you choose No, the quantity will be set to 1 and your customers will be able to 

purchase only one item per payment. 

  Shipping Address: If you would like your customers to be prompted to provide a 

shipping address, choose Yes. If you choose No, for items such as digital goods, your 

customers will not be asked to provide a shipping address.

Step 9: Collect additional information from your customers

  Note: Select Yes if you would like your customers to be able to include a note to you 

with their payment. If you select No, your customers cannot include a note.

  Note Title: If you are allowing your customers to include a note with their payments, 

you may choose a title for the note field. By including a title, you can prompt your buyers 

to enter specific information, such as User ID or special instructions. There is a 40 

character limit on your note field title. If you do not enter a title, your customers will see 

Special Instructions (optional) as the note field title.

Step 10: Choose an email address to receive payment

If you have added more than one confirmed email address to your PayPal account, you can 

specify the address at which you would like to receive your email payment notifications when 

your customers pay you.

Step 11: Copy and paste the HTML code

When you have finished filling out the Buy Now Button Factory form, click Create Button 

Now. 

If your customers will be making purchases through your website: Copy the code from the 

HTML for Websites text box by highlighting all of the text and pressing Ctrl+C, or by 

highlighting all of the text, right clicking your mouse, and selecting Copy. 

In your website files, open the code for the web page from which you wish to collect payment. 

Paste the code you just copied into your web page file wherever you would like the image to 

appear, typically next to the description of the item or service, by either pressing Ctrl+V or by 

right clicking on your mouse and selecting the Paste option. 

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HTML Tips: Please ensure that the HTML code on your web page exactly matches 

the code you copied from PayPal. Some HTML editors may add, delete, or change 

some characters in your code. If this is the case, please change the code on your web 

page to exactly match the code you copied You can copy the code into a new Notepad 

document, reselect all of the code, copy, then paste it into your web editor.

Please be sure that when you paste the HTML code for your button, you are pasting 

this information into a field that accepts HTML code. If you paste this code into a 

standard text field, the code will be posted to your web page as standard text.

For more tips on placing your payment on your web page, please refer to the Help 

section of your web page editor.

Website Payments Standard Checkout Integration Guide

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