How to receive donations and payments using Paypal Buttons
Thank you to anyone considering donating to me or already has. Thank you for just being on my site in general.
First go to https://developer.paypal.com/dashboard/
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The above should show when you click on live instead of sandbox. You want people to be able to pay you so I suggest putting it on live and then testing it yourself at the end whether the payments are going through.
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But you will be shown your account is limited if you don't have a business account.
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There's not much difference between a personal account and business account just that they ask for more information, so just click on upgrade account, give the info and you should be set.
After you name the "app", call it anything really, I called it "adding payments" you should be shown the above. I do not believe it is in some people's best interest to show Client Ids or paypal account email addresses so don't show the above information to others.
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Keep this information handy and open a new window/page to paypal.com
On Paypal go to pay and get paid then go to paypal buttons.
Here you will see all the buttons you can make, the smart buttons are the ones most websites use.
Click on copy code once you are happy with the settings and go to a place where you can embed code.
If you don't know what the above means ask your CMS service (Content Management Service) such as Wordpress for help.
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In the code the client id's equal sign is empty, set it to the client id you have (the information I wrote you should keep handy). It should look like the below.
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Only then will your paypal smart buttons work correctly otherwise it will keep saying payment cold not be processed or another error message.
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A good tip is to leave enough space so the buttons can expand when attempting to pay by credit card or debit card.
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Definitely test your paypal buttons yourself to make everything is working properly.
You can throw me a bone by using the Paypal smart buttons below if you wish, otherwise thanks for reading.