Creating Buy Now and Donation Buttons

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Buy Now  and Donations Button Factory

  Successful Payment URL: Enter the URL where you would like to send your donors 

after they have completed payment. Once donors complete their payments, they see a 

payment confirmation page. From this page, they click Click to Continue and return to 

the successful payment URL you have specified. If you do not enter a successful 

payment URL, donors who click this link are taken to a PayPal web page. 

  Cancel Payment URL:

Enter the URL where you would like to send your donors if they 

cancel a payment at any point in the Donations payment flow. If you do not enter a cancel 

payment URL, donors who click this link will be taken to a PayPal web page.

Step 5: Miscellaneous

  Shipping Address: If you would like to prompt customers to provide a shipping address, 

choose Yes. If you choose No, donors are not asked to provide a shipping address.

Step 6: Collect additional information from your customers

  Note Title: If you are allowing your donors to include a note with their payment, you 

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

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

character limit on your note field title. If you do not enter a title, donors see `Special 

Instructions (optional)' as the note field title.

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Select Yes if you would like your donors to be able to include a note to you with 

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

Step 7: 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 donors pay you.

Step 8: Copy and Paste the Donations code

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

Now.

If your donors will be donating through your website:

1. 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 clicking 

Copy. 

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

payment. 

3. 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 donation service) by pressing Ctrl+V, or 

right clicking on your mouse and selecting Paste. 

If you will be sending your donors the Donations link via email:

1. Copy the code from the Link for Emails text box by highlighting all of the text and 

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

selecting Copy.

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