Creating Shopping Cart Buttons

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PayPal Shopping Cart Button Factory

Successful Payment URL you have specified. If you do not enter a Successful Payment 

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

  Cancel Payment URL: Enter the URL where you would like to send your customers if 

they cancel their payment at any point in the PayPal Shopping Cart payment flow. If you 

do not enter a Cancel Payment URL, customers who click this link will be taken to a 

PayPal web page.

Step 8: Select other options.

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

shipping address, choose Yes. If you choose No, 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 payments. If you select No, your customers will not be given the opportunity 

to include a note.

  Note Title: If you are allowing your customers 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 (like a 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 the email address at which you want to receive payment.

If you have more than one confirmed email address attached 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 PayPal Shopping Cart code.

  When you have finished filling out the PayPal Shopping Cart Button Factory form, click 

Continue. 

  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 

choosing Copy. 

  Open the web page file into which you'd like to add your Shopping Cart Button. 

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

button 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 Paste. 

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HTML Tip: 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, 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 text.

Website Payments Standard Checkout Integration Guide

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