I have created my own Buy Now button where the amount is entered in a text box on my web page by users. My Paypal id hard written in this form. Is it possible to save this button in my own Merchant account?
Use the Standard Integration Wizard to create your button. Step 3, I think it is, in the process asks if you want to manage inventory for the button. If you click into the details for that one you'll see it has a check box for "Save to my PayPal account" which should be checked by default.
When you create a button with this option it gets saved in your button manager and can be adjusted in the future if you want.
If you're familiar with web service API's you can also use the Button Manager API to generate buttons that are saved in your account. If you're working with PHP my class library for PayPal will make that very simple for you.
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The previous PayPal donation checkout form https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr appears to have stopped working after years suddenly yesterday and says, "Things don't appear to be working at the moment. Please try again later." When generating a donation form through their tool it now has an updated interface so assume they changed something quietly.
When using the new process I'm able to affectively get the same results (albeit different UI now except that the make monthly button is no longer checked automatically. The user has already selected monthly donation in a previous ui that that redirects them to this page so need the monthly donation checked by default. Can't seem how to to do that. When generating the button it says custom variables supported, and lists one called, _xclick-subscriptions that was used before but anytime that is entered it says not supported.
It sounds like you were previously using a "Subscribe" button, not a "Donate" button. These are separate types of buttons within PayPal.
You can go to https://www.paypal.com/buttons and see if you are allowed to create a "Subscribe" button there. If you do create such a button, the .png file of the image in the generated code can be changed later to point to any image you want on your website -- or PayPal's default "Donate" image, if you prefer.
If you are not allowed to create a "Subscribe" button, then you will just have to use the "Donate" type button. Its recurring checkbox cannot be enabled by default.
I have setup Paypal button on my website and my client want to block payment for some countries. Is there any option??
I recommend to not try this in code, just log into your PayPal account and do the following. This will set FOR SURE filters for your account.
Login to your Account.
Click on Profile
Click on My Selling Tools
Under Getting paid and managing my risk
Look for Managing risk and fraud
Click on Update
At the bottom, look for Risk Controls
Check the radio button for Country Monitor
Click on Edit
On the Choose your Countries page
Add the countries you don't want to sell to in the My Monitored Countries
Below check the radio button for Decline
Click on Save
Note, you can also control the dollar amount that you're willing to accept.
I have a PayPal account and have multiple buy now buttons on my site to allow users to purchase multiple tiers of my services. The issue is on the checkout page, the link at the bottom says "Cancel and return to me#foo.com" which is my email and I want to change it to my website's name.
I don't have a bussiness account and I managed to change it on the sandbox account, but I can't remember how I did it. The "cbt" tag isn't working for me either.
This is how it looks:
I know that if you're using the Express Checkout API you can set that value using the BRANDNAME parameter.
With Payments Standard, though, I'm not sure you can do it. You could check your PayPal profile under Custom Payment Pages. It may let you adjust that there, but then it would be the same for every site.
Express Checkout is the only way you could customize it per website/checkout.
YOU CAN DO IT IF YOU HAVE A BUSINESS ACCOUNT ON PAYPAL SITE.
Business accounts will display the business name on the account providing you have the Business Name field populated in your Account Profile.
Login to your Account.
Click on the Profile link.
Under Account Information.
Click on Business Information.
What do you have for the Business Name?
If you don't have a Business Name there, next to the Business Contact Name, click on Change Name.
Select the Radio Button for Business Name Change.
Click on Continue.
Make the changes and save.
Logout of your Account. (All done :)
Next delete your web browser's cookies, temp files, history, etc., then close your web browser, reopen it and retry one of your item buttons. Go throught the PayPal Screens to see if anything has changed.
I have a webapp, where users sell printing services, I want to allow my users to add a pay now buttons to their pages so customers can pay for their services.
My users specify their paypal email address etc in the settings and set up their services with a price etc.
What API should I use to create the pay now buttons on the fly ?
Thanks
You don't need an API for creating "pay now" buttons. You can either create the button from within your customer's Paypal accounts or dynamically generate with HTML (see HTML Variables for Paypal Payments standard).
One advantage of creating the buttons from your/their Paypal account is that you can get an additional layer of security (support for encrypting the form or using a hosted button id so user cannot change the amount submitted to Paypal).
However, if you deal with hundreds of different buttons then it makes more sense to dynamically generate the buttons and just perform additional validation when Paypal sends back the confirmation (either through PDT or IPN) before shipping your items.
You could use PayPal's JavaScriptButtons API and create your buttons dynamically with:
paypal.button.create(business, data, config, parentNode)
There is an button manager API that let's you create secure buttons - here is more info: https://www.x.com/developers/paypal/products/button-manager
PayPal offers different buttons based on your requirement.
Follow these steps to generate PayPal button:
Login to your PayPal Account
Click on Tools --> All Tools
Click on PayPal buttons
Now you are given few button options --> Buy Now is one if them.
Follow those three steps and then copy the code at the end of 3 steps and paste it in the page where you want this button to appear.
You are good to take Payments!
how do i create donate buttons using paypal premier account?. i couldn't find donation button creation link, how can i do that?.
Is there any special procedure to get donation button?
donate button option does not appears if user logged in, so create one without loggedin and change that code to match to registered users code like emailid and so on. But i dont know this is right or wrong. I used this method for one project and it works fine.
I got to it through this link and can see Donation as an option in the "Accept Payments For" dropdown.
If someone still needs this, then you'll find the buttons under the Merchant Services menu item in your profile. Click on the menu item and then you'll see "Create Payment Button for your website" in that page. Clicking that link, you'll be able to create your button (any type).