How To Add PayPal Buy Now On Your Blog Or Website

This article deals with how you can accomplish the task using a payment gateway called PayPal.  If you want to start a business website, then this is for you. since you will be selling things online you will need a  payment processing company for that purpose. In this article i will teach you step by step, how to Add PayPal a Buy Now button on your website. You need to sign up for PayPal, you will probably need to have PayPal's Business or Premier account. Either of these allows you to accept unlimited credit card payments, among other things. Signing up for PayPal is free but PayPal earns by taking small cut from each payments made through its services. The amount charged per transaction varies from country to country.

Why you need a PayPal order form?

Most people that use the internet for buying and selling trust PayPal. This is due to the fact that it is an easy, secure and trusted most people use for their transactions. So you can gain the trust of your potential buyer when they see that the payment processing company is PayPal. Nobody wants to give away their credit card information to any company, this is because of the high rate of fraudulent activities on the internet. Although they are some other genuine payment ;processing company, but PayPal standsout.
  

1. Log into your PayPal account.

2. Click "Merchant Services". It is one of the links near the top of the window that

looks like a blue tab.

3. On the page that appears, look for the link that says "Buy Now Buttons". It

is in the section PayPal Website Payments Standard.

4. A page "Create a PayPal payment button" will appear. This page allows you to customize your

payment button and the associated order form.

5. The drop down Accept payments for lets you choose between "Products", "Services" . For now, select either "Products" or "Services",

depending on what you're selling.

6. Create a "Buy Now" button'. This option is suitable for

situations where you have a single product or service. When your customers click the button, they will

be brought immediately to the page where they can enter their credit card information or log into their

PayPal account to pay.

7. You will have to enter the "Item name" in the field provided. This name will be displayed in your order form for your

customers, so you should not put something Inconspicuous that will confuse them and make them wonder

whether they have arrived at the wrong form.

8. Set the price in the "Price" field. The "Currency" field defaults to your local currency (Dollars).

9. If you need to charge for shipping and taxes, enter the required amounts in the fields given. PayPal

does not appear to provide automatic calculation of such things based on your location relative to that

of your buyer. But if you are selling a digital product, e.g. software, digital books etc you can leave the space blank unless you know what you are doing

10. In the section "Merchant ID for purchase transactions", leave the default of "Secure merchant account

ID" unless you Really know what you're doing.

11. Click on the line that says "Step 2: Track inventory, profit

and loss (which is optional)". But, if you're interested, you can click that header to expand the section to

see if there's anything you want to customize. Make sure you know what you are doing. But, If you don't understand what you're reading there, just leave

everything set at the defaults.

12. Click the line that says "Step 3 Customizes advanced features ( Which is optional). This expands a section that

lets you customize the checkout pages. Like "Step 2", you can actually leave everything set at the

defaults, and your order form will work just fine, using the PayPal default checkout pages.

For those who want to fine-tune their order form, You can read on and customize:

o If you want to allow your customers to order more than 1 unit of the product you're selling, set

the answer to "Do you want to let your customer change order quantities" to "Yes". Otherwise,

leave it at "No."

o If you want your customers to be able to add "special instructions" to their order, leave the

"Yes" radio button for that item selected, otherwise click "No". Since you're selling something,

you may want to provide that special instructions field for your customers in case they have

specific requirements that you did not anticipate in your planning.

o If you do not want your customer's postal address, click the "No" radio button for that field, otherwise leave it set to "Yes".

o The next two fields, "Take customer to a specific page (URL) after checkout cancellation" and

"Take customer to a specific page (URL) after successful checkout" are for people who want to

customize the landing pages for a successful order or a cancellation. You will of course have to

create those web pages on your site yourself, and put the web address for those pages here. If

you don't know how to do that, leave these fields alone.

13. When you're through customizing your "Buy Now" button and your Order Form, click the "Create

Button" button.

14. A new page giving you the generated HTML code appears. You will need to copy the code given in the

field to your web page. To copy the code, click somewhere in the box containing the generated code.

The text in the box should automatically be selected. Click your right mouse button in that field and

select "Copy" from the menu that appears.

15. You will need to paste that code into the correct spot on your web page.