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Adding payment buttons to your site with PayPal

Darren
posted this on February 03, 2010 12:25

  1. Log onto PayPal with your account
  2. Click on 'Merchant Services'
  3. Select 'Website Payments Standard'
  4. Click on ' Buy Now Buttons'
  5. Complete the details in 'Step 1' of the form you are provided with
  6. Click on create button
  7. You will then be given two options - website and email, we're going to use the email option

 

Adding the link to your website

 

  1. Log onto the CMS, and edit the page you would like to change in the CMS - go into HTML view
  2. In PayPal, right-click on the 'Buyers View' button that is previewed for you and select properties
  3. Copy the location/url of the image (usually https://www.paypal.com/en_US/GB/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG.gif)
  4. Go into the CMS and click on the insert image icon, pasting in the URL you have copied for the image
  5. [ You will now see the button on your page ]
  6. Click once on the image, and select the hyperlink icon from the toolbar
  7. Go back into paypal, and copy the link that is in the box under the word 'email'
  8. Paste this into the URL box in Energy and click on okay