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Creating Shopping Cart Buttons

When you use PayPal's free Shopping Cart, your customers can purchase multiple items with 

a single payment, browse your entire selection, and view a consolidated list of all their items 

before purchasing. The PayPal Shopping Cart is a low cost way for you to accept credit card 

and bank account payments and can be fully integrated with your website in a few easy steps. 

Save time and money with PayPal's hassle free Shopping Cart: 

Easy to implement   no CGI scripting necessary

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

PayPal payments

Sell with ease   PayPal maintains detailed transaction records on our website

The PayPal Shopping Cart also offers customizable buttons and secure payments to help you 

improve your buyer experience, so happy customers become repeat customers. 

Get the most out of your website today: start using the PayPal Shopping Cart!

How It Works

Bob, who is new to PayPal, is going to purchase several books from Alice's website. 

The following example depicts the flow that occurs when PayPal Account Optional is turned 

off, and the user must create a PayPal account to complete the transaction. For more 

information about the PayPal Account Optional setting, see 

Chapter 12,  Auto Return

. 

What Your Customer Sees

Step 1: Bob goes to Alice's website and clicks 

Add to Cart

. When he has chosen all of the 

books he wants, he clicks View Cart.

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