The following are brief instructions on how to successfully add a PayPal button to your Blogger or Typepad blog.
- Login to your account and create/compose a new post.
- Complete the rest of the post until the last thing you will do is place the PayPal button.
- Click the Edit HTML tab.
- Go to your PayPal Account in another window. Login and go to Merchant Services and choose the Buy Now button. Complete the details (such as which button to use, what price, Item Name/Description, and more). Then click Create Button Now. At that point you can Copy the HTML code.
- Come back to your blog post, in the HTML view, and Paste the code where you want it located on your blog. Do NOT go back into Compose Post view! This may alter the code and then the PayPal button looks incorrect. So, the key is to Save/Post your post immediately after pasting the code into the HTML code.
To sign up for PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/us/mrb/pal=82JKFN6BLETJ2
To see a sample: http://heatherporto.blogspot.com/2008/07/upcoming-workshops-august-2008.html
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Thanks so very much for this helpful information. I’m going right to my blog to try to add paypal. Judy
Thank you sooo much! I have been trying to get the button to look right all night but I kept going back to the compose screen…looks great now! 🙂
Thank you for creating this post. We are looking at different methods that we can offer our products to our customer base. Your information will be useful as we see this project to fruition.
Thank you thank you! I have spent the past two days trying to get the buttons to work on my blog and now they do!
Is the same process with the “Add To Cart” button as well?
Hi Laura,
Yes..instead of choosing a Buy Now button, you would choose the Add to Cart button and use the same instructions.
Best wishes,
Heather 😀
Hi Heather,
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Thanks!
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I think its a wonderful information. Can you give me a suggestion how to put donate now button in my website…
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Go to your PayPal Account in another window. Login and go to Merchant Services and choose the Buy Now button. Complete the details (such as which button to use, what price, Item Name/Description, and more). Then click Create Button Now. At that point you can Copy the HTML code.This is very right,i think so.
Thanks so very much for this helpful information. I’m going right to my blog to try to add paypal. Judy
This was a HUGE help. Saved me so much time and tears trying to figure it out on my own! Thank you!!!
Thank you for this information! It worked like a charm! have a wonderful day!
Very helpful can you also do a blog about how to add a buy now button in a merchant account.
Thank you for posting this! It is super helpful and encouraging. I retreated it and e-mailed it to a few of my friends b/c I find it THAT useful. Thank you!
I think its a wonderful information. Can you give me a suggestion how to put donate now button in my website…
An informative blog! Come back to your blog post, in the HTML view, and Paste the code where you want it located on your blog. Do NOT go back into Compose Post view! This may alter the code and then the PayPal button looks incorrect. So, the key is to Save/Post your post immediately after pasting the code into the HTML code.
Hi Jeremy!
Blogger does NOT handle formatting well for the PayPal buttons. Even if you Publish without Previewing, Blogger will now still throw in extra padding…so you have to modify the HTML code to remove line breaks and basically consolidate the lines of HTML code from PayPal (for the button).
Hi Jeremy!
To do a Donate button you basically follow the same except that under Merchant Services; instead of choosing you will choose Donate and go from there. But copying and pasting in the code into your blog is the same.
Heather 😀
Hi, Heather…this post was very helpful, but I’m finding that about 10% of the time, the PayPal Button has a glitch…it’ll be working fine, adding things to my shopping cart, and then when I go to add another item, my shopping cart is empty and I’m left with that one item.
I contacted PayPal by phone and they said that’s because PayPal is not meant to work on blogs. It only works on websites. HUH?
Isn’t html html? I thought blogs were websites.
Any feedback would be appreciated.
An informative blog! Come back to your blog post, in the HTML view, and Paste the code where you want it located on your blog. Do NOT go back into Compose Post view! This may alter the code and then the PayPal button looks incorrect. So, the key is to Save/Post your post immediately after pasting the code into the HTML code.
+1
Hi Amanda!
Hmmm…honestly I haven’t had any problems with PayPal buttons or my customers. You may want to check out Google Checkout instead. They have payment buttons as well. Sorry you had problems with PayPal, Heather 😀
Yes, you are right. Now you don’t have to worry about switching between views. But in the beginning it was quirky. Thanks, Heather 😀
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