The first thing you need to do is login to your Paypal account. You do need to be logged in for this to work.

1) Once you are logged into Paypal you will need to click on the tab at the top that says ‘Merchant Services’.

2) Once on this screen you can either click on the ‘Buy Now Button’ (2) near the top of the page or you can scroll down a little bit and click on the ‘Buy Now Button’ (3) under the ‘Create Button’ menu.

After you click on the ‘Buy Now Button’ from the front page of ‘Merchant Services’ you will see the screen below.

1) You will want to leave this selected as ‘Accept payments for’: Products

2) Make sure you select ‘No; create a ‘Buy Now’ button.

3) Enter the name of your product. (This is what your customer will see on the Paypal page when they go to pay for your item, so make it intuitive.

4) This is an optional field and you do not need to put anything here. If you are using an accounting program and have product id’s setup for all of your products then you might want to put that here.

5) This is where you will put the price that you are charging for your product. Since Paypal will now save your button you can go back and change this at a later time if your like.

6) Make sure you select ‘Secure merchant account ID’. This will create button code that will not have any personally identifiable information in it.

At the bottom of Step 1 you will see 2 blue bars. You will need to click on each of them to expand these bars and follow each of the next two steps.

1) Make sure this is checked so that your button is saved for later use if needed.

2) Select this if you are having a limited quantity sale or if you wish to track inventory (useful for a physical product like CD’s or DVD’s. You can then set your starting quantity and alert level.

This is where you will setup the links back to your download page.

1) Make sure this is set to ‘No’. You don’t want people being able to change the order quantity.

2) Set this to ‘No’ unless you want people to be able to add notes to the purchase.

3) Since we are setting this up for a digital download you would want this set to ‘No’, however if you are selling physical products you will need the physical address and would want to set this to yes.

4) This is where you want the customer to return to if they cancel the payment process before they complete it. I normally set this to the websites home page/sales page, but if you are selling multiple products from the same site you might want to direct them back to the product they came from.

5) This is going to be the actual download page that you want to send your buyer to after they have completed the purchase through Paypal. I normally add some random characters onto the end of this so that it is more difficult for someone to guess and just be able to get to the download page without paying. (NOTE: This has to match exactly with what you have it named on your site).

6) You should never have to worry about this field unless you are trying to integrate with a third party script and then the scripts instructions will tell you EXACTLY what to put in this field.

Now you have to copy the button code to your webpage.

1) When you click in this field the entire set of text should highlight. You will just need to take this text and copy it to your webpage using your HTML editor of choice. Make sure you are copying it into the HTML view and not the WYSIWYG view. (I will expand on this in another lesson if needed)

2) This is where the code will be that distinguishes your button code from all the rest. DO NOT change this code!

Finally, once you have your button code setup on your webpage, you might want to change to one of the payment graphics that comes with your niche website.

To do this you will need to change the part of the code below that is highlighted with the path to the graphic you are wanting to use.

I.E. – http://www.mysite.com/image/paymentbutton.gif (or .JPG)

Hopefully this has helped you somewhat in learning how to setup your Paypal payment button.

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