Create a PayPal Donate Button

Posted on timeMarch 23rd, 2009 by userneil


The steps-by-step sequence to creating the HTML code for a PayPal Donate Button.

01. Login to PayPal and click on the Merchant Services tab

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02. Click the ‘Useful Links’ ‘Buy Now Buttons’ link

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03. Click the ‘Buttons’ ‘Donate’ link

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Donors don’t need a PayPal account to make their donations

04. Click the ‘Create your button now’ link

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05. There are three steps. You need to fill in the ‘Step 1:’ details

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Steps 2 and 3 are optional for more advanced settings.

06. Step 1 - Choose what you want to ‘Accept payment for’

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07. Step 1 - Give an Organisation name

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The Organisation name is what appears on the PayPal payment screen as the ‘Purpose’ for the payment.
Use a Donation ID is if you want to identify which button the donation was made with.

08a. Step 1 - Click the little arrowhead to reveal the Customise options

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08b. Step 1 - You can use your own graphics for the button

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Provide a URL to the button image. Note the image is not updated to show on screen but will show (if the URL is corrrect) when the code is published.

09. Step 1 - Choose the Currency, Donation amount and email encoding

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A plain text email has your email address in the code for the button. Potentially this could be gathered by Spam-bots.

10. Click ‘Create Button’

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11. Select and copy the code created by PayPal

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The ID No. is the Secure merchant ID selected instead of Plain text email address in Step # 09

12. You now have the option to use My saved buttons

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13. Going to My Saved Buttons allows you to re-edit the button

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14. The Actions available for a saved button

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15. My Account > Profile > Selling Preferences > My Saved Buttons

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The ‘My Saved Button’ link is in the My Account > Profile section

16. The PayPal button with a Customised Image pasted into my website page

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17. Clicking the button takes you to PayPal

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The ‘Purpose’ text is determined by what was entered in Step # 07

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