The following provides a guideline how to create the PayPal payment
(i.e. Buy Now) button that allows customers to purchase the product on your
website. PayPal provides a virtual testing environment called Sandbox that you
can easily test the entire payment process. Once the testing is successful, you
can then make a switch to the live PayPal environment.
To get started, you need to create test accounts under the Sandbox
environment for testing PayPal payment transaction. You basically need to
create two test accounts. One is the Personal type that represents the buyer in
a transaction. The other is the Business type that represents the merchant in a
transaction. To create Personal and Business test accounts, follow the
instructions provided in the PayPal developer site, under the link below.
https://developer.paypal.com/docs/classic/lifecycle/sb_create-accounts/
When creating a PayPal payment button, you can customize your button
and specify your product and price. Importantly, you must specify the Item ID
that matches the EcommerceProdID2 field of your product defined in the Products
table of the Activation Server. The PayPal payment button is provided as a
short HTML snippet that you can use it to create a purchase page.
1. Go to the PayPal Sandbox
site at https://www.sandbox.paypal.com.
2. Login with your Business
test account.
3. Go directly to the button
creation page by entering the following URL to your web browser: https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_button-designer.
4. Under the Choose a button
type drop-down list, select Buy Now.
5. Under the Item name
field, enter your product name.
6. Under the Item ID
field, enter the value from the EcommerceProdID2 field of your product defined
in the Products table of the Activation Server.
7. Under the Price
field, enter your product price.
8. Click the Create Button
button. The Add your button code to your webpage
page appears.
9. Under the Website
tab, you can copy the HTML snippet for the payment button.
To add a PayPal payment button for your product, just copy and paste
the HTML snippet to your webpage. In addition, you need to add a hidden field
named notify_url to the HTML form in order to
interface with the PayPal KeyGen. Below is the sample
HTML code for the PayPal payment button.
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<form action="https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" target="_blank"> |
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<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_s-xclick"> |
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<input type="hidden" name="hosted_button_id" value="QTGP38G3UR43J"> |
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<input type="hidden" name="notify_url" value="https://demo.eleckey.net/paypal_keygen.aspx"> |
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<input type="image" src="https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!"> |
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<img alt="" border="0" src="https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1"> |
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</form> |
You can learn more from the demo and try it out at the following URL.
https://developer.paypal.com/docs/classic/lifecycle/sb_create-accounts/
Once you have finished testing the PayPal payment button, you can make
a switch from the Sandbox to the live PayPal environment. The steps include:
·
Create a live Business account. Follow the
instructions at https://www.paypal.com/signup/account
·
Create a live PayPal payment button. Then,
replace it to your Sandbox test payment button. Follow the instructions at https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/get-started
See Also
·
Configuring
Activation Server for PayPal KeyGen
·
Order Confirmation Email
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