Creating Buy Now and Donation Buttons

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Notifications You Receive

2. Open the email you wish to send.

3. Paste the code you just copied into your email by either pressing Ctrl+V, or right clicking 

on your mouse and selecting Paste.

When your donors receive the email, the code will appear as a link. Clicking the link will take 

them to your PayPal payments page.

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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.

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).

For more information about payment related notifications, see 

 Notifications You Receive  

on page 54

 and the Order Management Integration Guide.

Notifications You Receive

You can be notified of payments in these three ways: email, history transaction log, and 

downloadable history transaction log.

Email

You receive an email notification in the following cases:

Successful Payment

Pending Payment

Cancelled Payment

If you do not want to receive payment notifications via email:

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