PayPal now allows you to save your Buy Now buttons
Man this has been a long time coming. PayPal’s encrypted Buy Now buttons were always a pain in the ass because if you needed to change anything about the product (like the price), you needed to recreate the button from scratch. What made it even worse is that if you weren’t the person that set it up in the first place, you had to guess all the variables when you recreated it.
Because of this, it really wasn’t worth encrypting the buttons most of the time, and therefore leaving all the variables open for the world to see. If you were smart, you would use the Payment Data Transfer (PDT) feature of PayPal to verify the purchase to make sure someone didn’t change the price or just type in the Return URL directly and get access to the product, but I’m sure many people we’re caught out by this.
But thankfully PayPal now allows you to save your Buy Now buttons and just reference them with a button ID in your button form, EG:
<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_s-xclick">
<input type="hidden" name="hosted_button_id" value="382714">
<table>
<tr>
<td>
<input type="hidden" name="on0" value="Domain">
Domain
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><input type="text" name="os0" maxlength="60">
</table>
<input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_AU/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="">
<img alt="" border="0" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_AU/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1">
</form>
<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_s-xclick">
<input type="hidden" name="hosted_button_id" value="382714">
<table>
<tr>
<td>
<input type="hidden" name="on0" value="Domain">
Domain
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><input type="text" name="os0" maxlength="60">
</table>
<input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_AU/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="">
<img alt="" border="0" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_AU/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1">
</form>
Note: The unbalanced <td> tag around the button was generated by PayPal - whoops!
The process of creating the buttons has also been streamlined a bit.
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Comments
I am extremely glad to learn
Submitted by engineering design (not verified) on Sunday, April 17, 2011 at 3:34pm.
I am extremely glad to learn about this useful feature of paypal which now allows one to save buy now buttons. I've enjoyed reading the interesting lessons. keep posting.
If you are an account holder
Submitted by Evicting a Tenant (not verified) on Monday, April 25, 2011 at 1:54pm.
If you are an account holder and facing the same problem in changing the option in paypal, here ends your ordeal since now paypal allows you to save your buy now buttons. Thanks for the profitable post.
It is quite interesting to
Submitted by business valuation (not verified) on Friday, April 29, 2011 at 12:19pm.
It is quite interesting to fix the trouble with now buy buttons which are always a pain as you need to recreate the button from scratch. thanks for the nice lesson. keep posting.
It is always a time taking
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It is very profitable and
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If you are a website
Submitted by dr krauss (not verified) on Tuesday, May 31, 2011 at 3:30pm.
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