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Creating PayPals Shopping Cart Buttons Introduction How it Works PayPal Shopping Cart Button Factory How You Get Your Money Adding PayPal Checkout to Your Third-Party Shopping Cart Introduction When you use PayPal’s free Shopping Cart, your customers can purchase multiple items with a single payment, browse your entire selection, and view a consolidated list of all their items before purchasing. The PayPal Shopping Cart is a low-cost way for you to accept credit card and bank account payments, and can be fully integrated with your website in a few easy steps. Save time and money with PayPal’s hassle-free Shopping Cart:
How It Works Bob, who is new to PayPal, is going to purchase several books from Alice’s website. The following example depicts the flow that occurs when PayPal Account Optional is turned off, and the user must create a PayPal account to complete the transaction. For more information about the PayPal Account Optional setting, please refer to the PayPal Account Optional section of this manual. What Your Customer Sees Step 1: Bob goes to Alice’s website and clicks Add to Cart. When he has chosen all of the books he wants, he clicks View Cart. Step 2: Bob looks at the contents of his cart and clicks Checkout. Step 3: Bob is taken to a PayPal Payment Details page which shows the items he has added to his Cart. Step 4: Bob is prompted to login to his PayPal account, but he is not already a PayPal member, so he follows the instructions at the top of the screen. Note: PayPal users will log in to their account and skip Step 5. Step 5: Bob is then prompted to enter his credit card information, email address, and password, creating his new PayPal account. Step 6: Bob is taken to a Confirmation page containing the details of his payment. Because Alice has activated her Shipping Preferences, the shipping costs are automatically added to Bob’s order. He clicks Pay to complete the payment. Step 7: Bob is taken to a Confirmation page where he sees the details of his successful payment. He is also given Alice’s customer service email. With Auto Return for Website Payments, Bob would be redirected back to your site immediately after clicking the Pay button on the Payment Confirmation page. To learn more about Auto Return, please refer to the Auto Return section of this manual. Step 8: Bob receives an email receipt for this transaction, confirming payment and including a copy of the Payment details. Step 9: Alice receives an email notification of Bob’s payment. Step 10: Alice logs into her PayPal account to check the payment Bob has sent. Step 11: The funds from Bob’s payment are now reflected in Alice’s PayPal account balance. She ships the books to her satisfied customer. PayPal Shopping Cart Button Factory With the PayPal Shopping Cart, your buyers can make a single payment when they purchase multiple items. And it’s easy to set up and use: just create a separate Add to Cart button for each item you sell, and place the automatically generated HTML code for that button on your website next to the item. Use the following steps to create your Shopping Cart buttons. Or, if you are comfortable using HTML, you can use the variables that are available in Appendix A to code your own buttons. Note: You also have the option of prepopulating your customer's signup information during the checkout flow. For more information and a list of variables, please refer to the Prepopulating Your Customer's PayPal Signup section of Appendix A in this manual. Getting Started
Use the following steps to create your Shopping Cart buttons. Or, if you are comfortable using HTML, you can use the variables that are available in Appendix A to code your own buttons. Creating Your Shopping Cart Button Step 1: Enter the details for your item you wish to sell.
Note: All items added to a PayPal Shopping Cart must be denominated in a single currency, which is determined by the currency specified for the first item added to the Cart. Once one item is added to a Cart, buyers will not be allowed to add any items listed in other currencies to that Cart. To change the currency, buyers must either Checkout and purchase the items in the first currency, or remove all existing items from the Cart and add the items of the second currency. The best option is to list all of your items in the same currency. Step 2: Choose an image for your button. If you are going to be receiving payments from your website, choose the image for the button you would like your customers to click to make their purchase. To display your own image, enter the URL of the image’s location in the URL field. Note: PayPal recommends that you enter an image URL only if the image is stored on a secure (https) server. Otherwise, your customer's Web browser will display a message that the payment page contains insecure items. If you do not have additional details to add to your button (such as sales tax, shipping, or your logo), click Create Button Now and go to Step 12. Otherwise, click Add More Options to see the fields listed in Step 3 -12. Step 3: Calculate shipping and tax. If you have already specified shipping rates in your Profile, they will be listed under Shipping Cost Calculation. For more information about calculating shipping, please refer to the Calculating Shipping, Handling, and Tax section of this manual. If you have already specified your tax rate from your Profile, it will be listed under Sales Tax Calculation. For more information about calculating tax, please refer to the Calculating Shipping, Handling, and Tax section of this manual. Step 4: 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 information such as color, size, or gift wrapping. Options must not change the price of an item, but will let you collect additional information from your customer without extra email communication. Each Shopping Cart Button may have up to two option fields, and you may use a drop-down menu or a text box to collect the information.
Step 5: Select a View Cart button. If you are going to be receiving payments from your website, choose the image for the button you would like your customers to click when they check out and complete their purchases. To display your own image, enter the URL of the image’s location in the URL field. 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 Shopping Cart button. For more information about adding, selecting, or changing custom page styles, please refer to the Custom Payment Pages section of this manual. Step 7: Customize your buyer’s 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. Step 8: Select other options. Shipping Address: If you would like your customers to be prompted to provide a shipping address, choose Yes. If you choose No, your customers will not be asked to provide a shipping address. Step 9: Collect additional information from your customers Note: Select Yes if you would like your customers to be able to include a note to you with their payment. If you select No, your customers will not be given the opportunity to include a note. Note Title: If you are allowing your customers to include a note with their payments, you may choose a title for the note field. By including a title, you can prompt your buyers to enter specific information (like a User ID) or special instructions. There is a 40-character limit on your note field title. If you do not enter a title, your customers will see Special Instructions (optional) as the note field title. Step 10: Choose an email address to receive payment If you have more than one confirmed email address added to your PayPal account, you can specify the address at which you would like to receive your email payment notifications when your customers pay you. Step 11: Copy and paste the PayPal Shopping Cart code
HTML Tip: Please ensure that the HTML code on your Web page exactly matches the code you copied from PayPal. Some HTML editors may add, delete, or change some characters in your code. If this is the case, change the code on your Web page to exactly match the code you copied. Be sure that when you paste the HTML code for your button, you are pasting this information into a field that accepts HTML code. If you paste this code into a standard text field, the code will be posted on your Web page as text. Step 12: Create Add to Cart buttons for all of your items. Click Create Another Button to create more Add to Cart buttons following the previous Steps 1-5. Once you have created Add to Cart buttons for all of the items you are selling, proceed to Step 13. Step 13: Copy the View Cart button HTML code. Now that you have placed your Add to Cart buttons on your website, you will need to include the “View Cart” buttons so your customers may quickly proceed to Checkout when they are ready.
Note: You also have the option of prepopulating your customer's information. For more information and a list of variables, please refer to the Prepopulating Your Customer's PayPal Signup section of Appendix A in this manual. How You Get Your Money After your customer has made his payment:
Notifications You Will Receive You can be notified of payments in these four ways: email, history transaction log, downloadable history transaction log, and, if you have activated it, Instant Payment Notification (IPN). You will receive an email notification in the following cases:
History Your transaction history log (“History”) contains information about your payments. Each payment will have one of these options as its status:
Downloadable Logs Log in to your PayPal account, go to the History subtab of the My Account tab and choose the Download My History link in the “Quick Links” menu. Choose the All Activity radio button or enter the dates of the entries you want to download, choose the type of file you would like to download (Comma delimited, Tab delimited, Quicken, or QuickBooks), and click Download History. The downloaded file will contain a record of all of your payments. Instant Payment Notification (IPN) If you have Instant Payment Notification activated, you will receive an IPN when a payment is first sent, which will state the status of the payment (Completed or Pending). If the payment was “Pending,” you will receive another IPN when the payment clears, fails, or is denied. To learn more about IPN, please refer to the Instant Payment Notification section of this manual. Adding PayPal Checkout to Your Third-Party Shopping Cart Some Web developers may wish to integrate PayPal payment processing with their own third-party shopping cart instead of the standard PayPal Shopping Cart. Please use the following instructions and variables to allow your buyers to pay with PayPal when they are ready to check out after adding all of their items to your third-party shopping cart. There are now two ways to integrate your third-party shopping cart with the PayPal payment flow. The first is to pass in the aggregate amount of the Cart payment, rather than of the individual items. The second is to pass details of the items that have been selected to PayPal, instead of an aggregated amount for the entire Cart. For a complete list of variables, please refer to the Adding PayPal Checkout To Your Third-Party Shopping section of Appendix A in this manual. Note: Posting the necessary variables to PayPal as described in the following instructions will probably require you to implement some scripting on your website. Passing the Aggregate Shopping Cart Amount to PayPal If you wish, you may aggregate your entire shopping cart and pass the total amount into PayPal’s Buy Now code. In other words, you will need to post a single name for the entire cart and the total price of the cart’s contents as though it were a purchase of a single item. One drawback of this method is that your buyers will not be able to see the individual items appearing in their carts. In addition, you cannot change our variable names, nor can you add your own variable names. Passing Individual Items to PayPal If your third-party shopping cart can be configured to pass individual items to PayPal, information about the items will be included in the buyer’s and seller’s History logs and notifications. To include information about the items, you will post HTML form elements to a new version of PayPal’s Shopping Cart flow. This process is much like the one described in Passing Aggregate Shopping Cart Amount to PayPal, with the following exceptions:
To specify currency: All monetary variables (amount_x, shipping_x, shipping2_x, handling_x, tax_x) will be interpreted in the currency designated by the currency_ code variable that is posted with the payment. Since it is not item-specific, there is no need to append a “_x” to the variable name. If no currency_code variable is posted, we will assume that all monetary values are in U.S. Dollars. For a complete list of variables, please refer to the Passing Individual Items to PayPal section of Appendix A in this manual. References: Paypal's Developer Reference Guide (pdf) |
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