How can I tell if my customers are seeing the PayPal button which I have tried t

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  johndtaylor · Member · Jul 1, 2014 at 1:41 pm

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  How can I tell if my customers are seeing the PayPal button which I have tried to paste into my web page so far without much success. Am I not creating the LINK correctly?

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  johndtaylor · Member · Jul 1, 2014 at 1:42 pm

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  How can I tell if my customers are seeing the PayPal button which I have tried to paste into my web page so far without much success. Am I not creating the LINK correctly?

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  spencerwberry · Member · Jul 1, 2014 at 10:49 pm

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  John,
  It looks like you have the right link, but you haven’t gotten the button’s image to work yet.

  You will want to grab the code for one of the buttons here.

  Copy that image code and paste it to the text tab of your post.

  Once you’ve pasted the image in to the text tab, click back in to the visual tab, then click on to the button. A pencil and an x should appear, meaning the image is highlighted.

  Now click the link button at the top of the editor (looks like a chain link), and link it back to your PayPal purchase page:
  https://www.paypal.com/uk/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_flow&SESSION=8FVJ1yI3DixfaqZ_tqEu6zo-SDfbEL2-oZ7SYgeIvFgurKZUBWEo71znU5y&dispatch=50a222a57771920b6a3d7b606239e4d529b525e0b7e69bf0224adecfb0124e9b61f737ba21b081988ee87121ca8032a43984da2b890102b1

  Once you’ve done that and have things working, feel free to copy the html code from the text tab and paste that in to your widget to get it working there as well.

  Let me know if you have trouble.

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  johndtaylor · Member · Jul 2, 2014 at 12:50 pm

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  Thanks spencerwberry, I can now get it to work when I click on the text bot not when I click on the PayPal button. Also the text is visible on the web page and is highlited in green? What should I do now?

  John (Pushchair to Ploughshare.com)

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  spencerwberry · Member · Jul 2, 2014 at 11:31 pm

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  John,
  Let’s start with the button in the post. We will need to fix the button and then we will want to do some cleanup, as there is some excess html in the post now.

  Let’s begin:

  1. Edit the Post in question, start in the Visual Tab
  2. Copy the Paypal Url https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=PU5X9W6DKNPYY
  3. Click the PayPal Button again (so it is highlighted, you’ll see a pencil icon)
  4. Click the “Insert/Edit Link” Button
  5. Paste the PayPal URL in to the URL Field
  6. Optional update the title if you’d like, and check the “Open link in a new window” box so that they can buy your product without leaving your site
  7. Delete the actual PayPal link text that comes before the button

  That should make the button work.

  Now for cleanup, I’d suggest:

  1. Edit the post, this time from the Text Editor
  2. Scroll to the bottom and remove all the code after “or Pay with PayPal”:
     

     `<div><br />
     <div id=”highlighter_832128″ class=”syntaxhighlighter nogutter xml ie”><br />
     <table border=”0″ cellspacing=”0″ cellpadding=”0″><br />
     <tbody><br />
     <tr><br />
     <td class=”code”><br />
     <div class=”container”><br />
     <div class=”line number1 index0 alt2″></p>
     <p><code class=”xml plain”><code class=”xml plain”>/`

  3. Now remove the code after the button:
     

     `<code class=”xml plain”>></code>
     </div>
     </div></td>
     </tr>
     </tbody>
     </table>
     </div>
     </div>
     `

  That should clean everything right up.

  Let me know if you have trouble!

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  johndtaylor · Member · Jul 3, 2014 at 9:50 am

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  Thank you Spencer W Berry. Eureka, now I have got it, it works perfectly. Have a great day. John D Taylor.