Contribute CS4 Resources

About PayPal buttons

PayPal buttons, created by WebAssist.com, make it easy for you to add e-commerce functionality to a Contribute page. After you create a payment button, you can instantly accept credit card payments from your customers. PayPal provides a secure, hosted check-out service to process and record all your transactions. If you don’t have a PayPal account, you can open one for free in a few minutes. There are no setup or monthly fees and PayPal charges you only when a customer payment occurs.

Note: Your Contribute administrator must enable the PayPal feature for your role before you can use it. For more information, talk to your Contribute administrator or see Set page-editing and paragraph settings.

You can add five kinds of PayPal buttons to a web page:

Buy Now button

Defines an item offered for immediate purchase and includes a product name, price, item number, and other shipping and handling costs.

Add to Cart button

Defines an item that a customer can use to add the item to a shopping cart for purchase.

View Cart button

Is used with the Add to Cart button and lets customers view the items in their shopping cart and check out whenever they want to complete their purchases.

Subscription button

Defines a service that the customer can pay for on a recurring basis and also provides an option to setup a free trial period. You can define the amount, the subscription period, and how many times to repeat billing.

Donation button

Lets you collect donations from a button on your website, or even using a link in an e-mail.

All payment button wizards let you price items in multiple currencies, such as Canadian dollars, British pounds sterling, euros, or Japanese yen. They also provide options that let you display your business name and logo on the checkout page. Finally, you can specify a web address (URL) for a web page you want shown when a customer completes a purchase, such as a “Thank you for your order” page.

You insert the PayPal button and its associated functionality in a page by completing the screens of the PayPal wizard. Through the wizard, you select button images to insert in the page and define multiple options (such as an item number, price, and so on) for each item you are selling. If you need help completing the screens in the PayPal wizard, click the Help button to view additional online help.

You can insert multiple PayPal buttons in the same page. Just be sure not to insert more than one button in the same paragraph or table cell.

If your page contains other HTML forms, make sure you do not insert a PayPal button in an existing HTML form. If you use JavaScript code to reference a form in your page, verify that the JavaScript functionality is still working after you add the PayPal button(s) to your page.