Using PayPal Buttons in Emails

WebAssist has partnered with PayPal to bring you the PayPal eCommerce Toolkit, a FREE extension allowing you to add PayPal payment buttons directly within your web pages and HTML emails. Using this Toolkit, you can add the following PayPal button sdirectly to any html page, including HTML based email:
  • Single Item Purchase buttons - create a payment button for your product or service and let customers immediately pay you with any major credit card.
  • Add to Cart buttons - add items to your PayPal shopping cart utilized by your web store
  • Subscriptions buttons - offer recurring payments through email. Set up an ongoing charge or payment plan for customers, set up a free or paid trial period, and also charge a setup fee to initiate the subscription.
  • Donations buttons - provide people the opportunity to donate money to your organization directly

To create emails that contain PayPal buttons:

  1. Create a web page in Dreamweaver, either in HTML, ASP of CFML.
  2. Specify the Body content for your email in the page you've created.
  3. Use the PayPal eCommerce Toolkit to create your PayPal payment buttons within the file.
  4. Save the file.

    You have created a source file for the body content of your email.
  5. Open the Universal Email dialog box (see Using Universal Email)
  6. Click on the Body tab.
  7. Click the Get from File button (see the Body tab section for more information).
  8. In the Select a File dialog box, locate the file created in steps 1 through 4.
  9. Click OK.

    The source code for the page will be imported into the Body specification box, including the Payment button functionality. Your email now has PayPal payment buttons incorporated into its content.

    Note: This feature requires that the email format be either HTML or multipart. See the Subject, importance, and format section for more information.