One of our visitors was wondering how we created this “add to cart” button that appears in our web-pages.  I will try in this blog entry to explain how to create a Paypal button.

Introduction:

First you must create a Paypal account.  As a business you should create a “Premier” account to be able to create and use Paypal buttons.

The “Premier” account is free to join but you will be charged fees every time one of your customers make a purchase.

Chapter 1:

When you have created your account go to “profile” and select “My Saved Buttons” under the “Selling Preferences” column (as a new business this feature may be called “create buttons”, I’m not sure); or go here directly.

Chapter 2:

Follow the instructions on the picture below to change the design of your button.

If you have one article that has many sizes use the “Add drop-down menu” to add the choices (see picture below).  Here are my choices for the Tiger button.

Chapter 3:

There are other options you can use (or not), we use in this site “shipping options” as well as customize landing page for successful orders or cancel orders.  You will find them here:

Shipping Options:

Landing page Options:

Also do not forget to create special pages in your website for these landing pages; if you want to see an example of our landing page feel free to make an order ☺.

Chapter 4:

When you are happy with the results click on the “create button” on the bottom of the page to create the html code (see below) and copy the code to insert it in your website using and html snippet (in IWeb 08) for example.

Use the save button function to create similar buttons for your site.

This code will give you a button with a black writing above the button (perfect for website with white or light color background).  But what about webmaster like me who created website with dark background?  You must incorporate a small string of code to solve your problem.  This code must replace the  <td> just before the <input type...> section of your code.  Here is the code “<td align=center><font color="#FFFFFF">” without the hyphens.

Conclusion:

Paypal is very friendly to create buttons, I really like it and I recommend that you check their website for a more detailed explanation on how to use shipping options.

I hope you find this explanation easy to follow and do not hesitate to contact me if you have more questions regarding this blog entry.

Enjoy

Thierry

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