How to Create a PayPal "Add to Cart" Button
| If you are new to PayPal, open a PayPal Premiere Account. You can upgrade to a Business Account later if the volume increases. http://www.paypal.com | ||
| 1. | Sign in to your account and click Merchant Services. | |
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| 2. | Click Add to Cart Button. | |
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| 3. | Select "Choose a button type" dropdown list. Select Shopping Cart. | |
| 4. | In the "Item Name" field, create a short version of the eBook title. In the "Item ID" field, enter a very short ID. | |
| 5. | In the "Price" field, enter the price of the eBook. Ensure "USD" is displayed (indicating US funds). | |
| Ignore "Shipping" and "Tax" fields. | ||
| 6. | In the "Merchant account IDs" select Use my primary email address. | |
| Ignore PayPal's STEP 2, Track Inventory, profit and loss. | ||
| Ignore PayPal's STEP 3, Customize advanced features | ||
| 7. | Click Create Button. | |
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The field displays with the HTML coding for this button. |
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| 8. | Click Select Code button. The Cart button is complete. Now you need to save it in a text file (see below). | |
| Saving the Code on Your Computer | ||
| 1. | On your computer, click CTRL C (or Edit => Copy) while the code is highlighted (turns blue). If you lose the blue highlighting while trying to copy it, just click Select Code again on the PayPal screen. | |
| 2. | On your computer, open a blank Notepad or Wordpad file. This must be a text only file and contain no formatting. Do Not use Microsoft Word. | |
| 3. | On your computer, place your cursor in the blank Notepad screen, click CTRL V (or Edit => Paste). | |
| 4. | On your computer, from the Notepad tool bar, click File => Save As. | |
| 5. | In the Save in: field at the top of the Notepad window, navigate to My Documents. | |
| 6. | Create a New Folder and name it PayPal. You can see the "Create New Folder" icon to the right. |
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| 7. | In the File name: field, enter a file name for the new Notepad file, for example, PayPal-Button. | |
| 8. | In the Save as type: field, select Text Document. This is very important as this file must be text only. | |
| 9. | Click Save. | |
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Email the PayPal Cart Button to Us
| Send the above TEXT document to us attached to an email. | ||
| 1. | Create a NEW email in your email software (Outlook, Thunderbird, Gmail, etc.). | |
| 2. | In the Subject field, enter PayPal Cart Button. | |
| 3. | In the Message Field, enter your name, telephone number, email address and a message indicating the name of the eBook title to be used with this button. | |
| 4. | In your email software, select INSERT or ATTACH => navigate to My Documents => PayPal Folder (or wherever you have the PayPal button saved), select "PayPal-Button." The filename now displays somewhere in the email header. | |
| 5. | Click SEND. | |