How can i add fixed value donation paypal if no business account, all i have is a button id, i'd like to add fixed amount when a user clicks on an image. Any ideeas how to do it?
You can create a URL like this
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=YOUR_EMAIL_ACCOUNT¤cy_code=USD&amount=YOUR_FIXED_AMOUNT
This will take user to the Donation page with amount filled in.
Also, you can do the same here - paypal.com/donate/buttons
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I would like to include PayPal recurring donation buttons on my website so that users can donate to other nonprofits/charities of my choosing. My website would include many of these buttons, and all money would be sent directly to these charities. How would I go about this? As far as I know, one can only create donate/subscription buttons where the money goes to the creator of the button. Thanks!
When you create the button make sure to uncheck the option to save the button at PayPal, which would bind it to that account.
When you do that the HTML code provided will include a "business" parameter that would be the email address of the account the profile should be created with and the money should drop in to.
Another option would be using the Express Checkout API, with which you can specify the account the money should go to with the SELLERPAYPALACCOUNTID parameter.
I want my users to be able to choose the amount before clicking on the "pay now" PayPal button. On the page to build such button on PayPal website, one can add custom fields and call it "amount", but the value entered in this field will not be taken into account when users click the button: they are directed to PayPal website to validate payment, however the amount is zero.
How to create an amount field so that when the user enters a value X and clicks the button, this value X appears as the amount on PayPal payment page?
If you post a sample of the button code you're working with I could adjust it for you accordingly. It sounds like you just need to set something like the following in your code.
<input type="text" name="amount" value="" />
That would make a text field display so the person could enter the amount they want, and since the name is amount, when posted to PayPal it would see it the same as if it were a hidden field.
The easiest way to allow your customers to choose the payment amount is to simply leave the amount field blank when creating the button in the button factory. No custom fields are necessary. The customer will be prompted to enter an "item Price on the hosted checkout page and that is what the customer will pay unless you have profile tax or shipping enabled.
I see how to add a select box for pre-determined recurring donation/subscription amounts but can there also be an option for the user to decide how much they wish to donate (and perhaps how frequently)?
Thanks
With Donate and Buy Now payment buttons your buyers can enter their own price to pay on the PayPal checkout page. You can accomplish that by just leaving the amount value empty.
Subscription buttons require that an amount (the a3 variable for Subscriptions) value be provided during the redirect to PayPal so if you leave the field blank you would get an error. However, if you change the a3 input type to be text instead of hidden in your HTML form buyers can enter the amount on a text field on your website before being redirected to PayPal.
Paypal makes it really easy to create a donate URL. A donor can enter a custom $ amount or use a fixed one. We'll use the custom amount, since it's more flexible. Is there anyway to allow the donor to enter a custom amount, and have PayPal display a checkbox for example to allow this amount to be a recurring monthly donation via a URL?
We checked out the "subscribe" button, but it only returns a form, not a URL, and didn't see anywhere to let the donor choose the amount.
Basically, this should be an optional field in the donate URL. Any ideas on how to accomplish this?
You'll need to use standard subscription buttons or the Recurring Payments API. Either way you could setup your page so the user chooses those options on your site prior to being sent over to PayPal.
use cmd=_donations. Paypal will prompt for an amount and whether it is recurring.
PayPal now has recurring donations, for mobile checkout, by default. See this blog post.
Sorry for the confusing title. Here's my problem -- I am using contact form 7 and I have added paypal in my checkout option but how will it able to record the total amount of the service ordered and be asked for payment? Because it just redirects to paypal with a fixed rate that I put upon creating the button. Can anyone help? Thanks.
PS: This is an example.
If someone wants to avail the service on my site and they want an additional service, they select that service and it will add to the total charge and upon clicking the pay now button, it will charge the total amount on paypal then they pay.
You could have your page dynamically populate the amount prior to redirecting the buyer over to PayPal. To be able to do this, you would need to create a non hosted clear text button. Another option would be to create a buy now button and enter in the amount as 0.00, this would prompt the buyer to update the amount before they proceed to make the payment on the payPal page.