I am trying to insert a PayPal button into my web site and as of now have not got it to work.  I can creat the button through PayPal and that is as far as I get.  What must I do to get it into the web site.  How do I insert it into the page where I want it. Where do I copy the HTML code  to.

Thank you for your help in advance:

Here's how you do it:

1. Login to paypal under the “merchant account“ you set up to accept payments.  I'm not sure if this can be done without one...

2. Go to the “Merchant Tools“ tab.

3. Click “Buy Now Buttons,“ tucked away in the first paragraph that has the title “Use PayPal on your website!“

4. Enter the details in the form.  For item name/service, use something like “Site Donation,“ and give any number for the item id/number.  Have whatever price you like, select the currency...

5. Select the “Buy Now“ button or provide one of your own.

6. Under Security Settings, click “No“ to encrypt the payment button.  Normally, it'd be a very bad idea to do this, but since you're accepting donations from your members and not actually charging for a service, it shouldn't be a big deal.

7. Click “Create Button Now“ to complete the form.

8. Two text boxes with code in them will appear.  The code you want to grab is the code in the “Link for Emails“ text box.  It contains everything necessary to send the user to PayPal to donate to ya.  Here's a sample of what these links look like (please don't donate, lol -- this is just a sample!):

https://www.paypal.com/xclick/business=Support%40guildportal.com&item_name=Site+Donation&item_number=1111&amount=1.00&no_note=1&currency_code=USD


Aaron Lewis
GuildPortal.com Development

Well, I haven't been able to get it to work in a Freeform / HTML box.  It only shows up as the code instead of the actual button.  I wanted to do the button version instead of the email, beacuase the email is just a link.  When I try to add the website version of the code (or the email one for that matter) or the "verified PayPal" button to the box, it just shows up as code, never as the picture it's supposed to be.

Such as :  The following is pasted as HTML:

<Deleted>

The Following is Pasted with Ctrl+V:

<Deleted>

Well, correction, I found another post that ended up working.  You can just use the free form / html box.  Put a picture (the donation button) make it a hyperlink to your donation URL from the email link, then add whatever text you want.  This is a lot easier than trying to figure out how to make the code work.


City of Heroes RavensClaw SuperGroup

Thank you!

COHCorvis said: