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Creating Buy Now and Donation Buttons
Buy Now and Donations Button Factory
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Step 4: Shipping and Sales Tax
– Shipping Cost Calculation: If you have already specified shipping rates in your Profile,
they will be listed here. To learn more about charging for shipping, see Chapter 9,
“Calculating Shipping, Handling, and Tax.”
– Sales or Value Added Tax Calculation: If you have already specified your tax rate
from your Profile, it will be listed here. For more information about charging for tax, see
Chapter 9, “Calculating Shipping, Handling, and Tax.”
Step 5: Add Option fields to your button
Let your customers specify information about their purchases by creating an option field. You
can use Option fields to specify things like color, size, or gift-wrapping. Options must not
change the price of an item, but let you collect additional information from your customer
without extra email communication. Each Buy Now Button may have up to two option fields,
and may you use a drop-down menu or text box to collect the information.
Unfortunately, Option fields and button encryption cannot currently be used if you are creating
an email hyperlink. If you would still like to send out Buy Now links in emails, you may try
either sending an HTML email, providing a link to the Buy Now Button (with Option fields)
on your website, or asking your user to include the optional information in the Note field.
– Option Field Type: Choose the type of option field: drop-down menu or text box. If you
choose drop-down menu, you will enter the different choices. If you choose text box,
your customer will enter his choice.
– Option Name: Enter the name of your option. There is a 60-character limit for the
Option Name field.
– Drop-Down Menu Choices: If you are using a drop-down menu, enter your menu
choices. There is a 30-character limit per choice, with a maximum of 10 choices. Use a
carriage return (press ENTER) to separate each choice.
– Step 6: Customize your payment pages
– Custom Payment Page Style: Give your customers a seamless payment experience by
customizing PayPal's payment pages to match the style of your website. If you have
already added Custom Payment Page Styles in your Profile, they will be listed here.
Choose the page style you would like to appear when your customer clicks your Buy
Now button. To learn more about creating page styles, see Chapter 8, “Custom Payment
Pages.”
Step 7: Customize Your Buyer Experience
– Successful Payment URL: Enter the URL for the page to which you want your
customer redirected after he has completed his payment. Unless you have enabled Auto
Return, once your customer has completed his payment he will see a payment
completion page. From this page, he will click Continue and return to the Successful
Payment URL you have specified. If you do not enter a Successful Payment URL,
customers who click this link will be taken to a PayPal Web page.
– Cancel Payment URL: Enter the URL where you would like to send your customers if
they cancel their payments at any point in the Buy Now payment flow. If you do not enter
a Cancel Payment URL, customers who click this link will be taken to a PayPal Web
page.
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