Creating Shopping Cart Buttons

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How You Get Your Money

Step 12: Create Add to Cart buttons for all of your items.

Click Create Another Button to create more Add to Cart buttons following the previous 

Steps 1 5. Once you have created Add to Cart buttons for all of the items you are selling, 

proceed to Step 13.

Step 13: Copy the View Cart button HTML code.

Now that you have placed your Add to Cart buttons on your website, you need to include the 

 View Cart  buttons so your customers can quickly proceed to checkout when they are ready.

1. Copy the code from the Copy `View Cart' button HTML box by highlighting all of the 

text and pressing Ctrl+C, or by highlighting all of the text, right clicking on your mouse, 

and choosing Copy.

2. Open each web page from which you would like your customers to be able to get to their 

PayPal Shopping Carts. 

3. Paste the code you just copied into your web page file where you would like your  View 

Cart  button to appear, by either pressing Ctrl+V or by right clicking on your mouse and 

choosing Paste.

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You also have the option of prepopulating your customer's information. For more 

information, and a list of variables, see 

 Prepopulating Your Customer's PayPal Sign 

Up   on page 136

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How You Get Your Money

After your customer makes a payment:

1. You will receive an email notification of the payment.

2. Your customer will receive an email receipt for the payment.

3. Your PayPal account will reflect the payment. You can view this information from your 

Account History or download it as part of your History transaction log.

Notifications You Receive

You can be notified of payments in four ways: email, history transaction log, downloadable 

history transaction log, and, if you have activated it, Instant Payment Notification (IPN).

Email

You receive an email notification in the following cases:

Successful Payment

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