@@websitewiz Since they moved things around I've been lost and you have been a life saver, once again thank you, greetings from Ireland and may your God go with you :)
This video is now out of date with Paypal changing their design and options. They literally are trying to confuse you now with changing the names of everything. Can you update this video or do you have an updated video?
Hi Brian, thank you for your feedback! We understand that PayPal has recently updated their design and options, which can be quite confusing. In the meantime, here are a few key updates to help you navigate the new PayPal interface: *Updated Navigation:* PayPal has reorganized some of their menu options. You can find the button creation options under "Tools" > "All Tools" > "PayPal Buttons". *Shipping Calculator:* The shipping settings can be accessed via "Account Settings" > "Shipping" under "Products and Services". *Button Customization:* When creating or editing buttons, make sure to use the updated form fields, including the weight parameter for shipping calculations. This is our only video on this subject of 'Add to Cart' buttons, and unfortunately we are not planning on creating an update in the near future. For more detailed instructions in the meantime, you can check PayPal's official help page and their community forums: www.paypal-community.com/t5/PayPal-Community/ct-p/en. Hope this helps!
Hi, unfortunately PayPal is no longer offering standalone payment solutions, such as their Smart Button, which could have been used previously with a Wix free plan. If you want to accept payments via your Wix site, you would now need to either code it in directly, or upgrade to one of the Wix premium business plans. If you want to take the coding path, please check out this page on PayPal's website to get started: developer.paypal.com/docs/checkout/standard/ Otherwise, the only other way to connect PayPal buttons to your website is to sign up for a paid solution as mentioned above. Hope this helps!
Unfortunately, it seems, if you have a business PayPal account you would have to switch to a personal to access it unless you've saved the add to cart button on your business one. The business one seems to say at the bottom now "Please use our trusted partners to add a Add to Cart button to your page."
Hi Mr Entity, thanks for your comment. Unfortunately, we can't check this as we have a business account with pre-existing buttons, so they are still where we left them. But it would seem that PayPal is leaning more towards using their partner solutions, rather than their in-house standalone buttons going forward. And that means that all new users are not getting access to what previous business accounts have had access to. Thanks for sharing this info - it helps the community to keep up to date! 💜
I thought you can add only 15 or something buttons with PayPal. Or with shopping cart button they don't count as buttons but as varieties? If I have more than 15 products?
Hi, according to our research you can have up to 1,000 buttons with PayPal. As per the following PayPal article: "A merchant's PayPal account can have a maximum of 1,000 saved payment buttons." developer.paypal.com/api/nvp-soap/paypal-payments-standard/integration-guide/Appx-websitestandard-htmlvariables/ Hope this helps!
Hi Juan, you should be able to enable this option but unfortunately this is controlled by the PayPal Shipping Calculator, which is not working properly. So it's not possible to offer one shipping fee with this button. The only thing we can recommend for you is to use a fully integrated ecommerce solution such as Wix, Shopify or WooCommerce (with Wordpress), as they make this simple and easy to do. Hope this helps!
Thanks for the video, I was wondering if you thought if some of the shipping issues, and or other smaller issues could be fixed with coding with Python, which I am learning, and or visual basic modules, if they could be added to this at all.
Hi Bill, Well done on learning Python. I'm not a coder, but from the research I've done, my noob opinion is yes, you can code the fixes required. But if it was easy, I have to ask myself why PayPal hasn't done it yet, as this is how they make money - by providing a service that means we don't have to do the coding for ourselves. The following article might be helpful though: mariuschiriac.github.io/posts/client-server/paypal_button/ I hope it is.
@@websitewiz very true, you would think they would want it to work, and cannot understand why it has not been fixed, because it does not seem like it would be impossible to do
Hi, it could be that you closed your website window and PayPal is having trouble to redirect back to your site. Did you close the original window where your button was, after going to the PayPal checkout? Please let us know 😃
Thank you very much for this great tutorial! I have a question: If is sell several digital products using the "add to cart" button, the costumer will receive the dowload links via email? if not, is there any way to do this? Thank you once again!
You're very welcome Sidney! 😃 Unfortunately, these simple, stand-alone PayPal buttons can't do as much as you need them to, unless you are able to code them to do more. If coding isn't an option for you, there are 3 other options we would suggest: 1. Integrate PayPal as part of a full e-commerce solution which automatically sends digital products upon payment, or 2. Use automation software which triggers your Email account to send an automated email every time you receive a payment to your PayPal account, or 3. Manually send a download link email to your clients, each time you get an order. This last one is the worst option of course, and we only mention it as at least you can use it until you set up one of the other 2. The 3 e-commerce solutions we think are the best are: 1. WooCommerce - the cheapest (free), but it has the greatest learning curve of the 3 solutions. 2. BigCommerce - cheaper overall than Shopify but with a greater the learning curve than Shopify. 3. Shopify - the easiest to implement, but the most expensive solution, in our opinion, over the long term. The 3 automation platforms that we think would work well for what you want to do are: 1. www.zapier.com 2. www.automate.io 3. www.make.com (Also known as Integromat) PayPal is considered a 'premium app' with Zapier and Automate, so you would need a paid plan with these platforms, to make it work. But Make.com has a free plan that will work with PayPal. Zapier appears to be the easiest to use, but is the most expensive. Automate is affordable with plans starting at $9 / month. And Make, as I mentioned, has a limited free plan, which you could use to make this work. But we did find it to have more of a learning curve than the other two. If you are going to use Make.com, we recommend you watch these two videos first: 1. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AmILvt7zRJs.html 2. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-V99tPHcqHzE.html Hope this helps!
Hi Bharat, Unfortunately, PayPal doesn’t offer this functionality natively in their buttons. As they say in the following article www.paypal.com/nu/smarthelp/article/how-do-i-create-a-discount-code-or-coupon-code-for-my-paypal-buttons-ts1512 “PayPal doesn't support discount codes or coupons, but you can offer customers discounts by using a third-party shopping cart that supports a discount feature and works with PayPal.” In the same article though, they give you the steps to insert code into their button that would allow you to do it yourself. That said, the easiest way to add discount coupon codes in your checkout is as they suggest, via third-party shopping cart software such as that found in BigCommerce, WooCommerce or Shopify. Hope this helps.
Very useful info = Shipping Calculator broken for years. And Add To Cart buttons useless for calculating shipping. Shockingly poor service. Esp when you consider how much money they make.
It does Dave. This video though, is more for Web Site Builders that have a free plan, such as Wix. As Shopify only has a 14-day trial, you could use this method for the 14-day trial, but would then have to upgrade to a Shopify premium plan. And when you've done that, the integrated e-commerce solutions available to you then, would integrate far better with PayPal than the simple, stand-alone PayPal buttons we are talking about in this video.
hello,excuse me,could you please tell me if is possible to include a text on a confirmation payment? I would like to send instrucctions on how to download the product.Thank you
Hi Octavio, a free way to do this would be to create a page on your website listing the download instructions and then redirect your customer to that page after payment. To set this up when when creating your button, check out this section of the video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-C-thWrCUYFs.html Please bear in mind though that this would not be a "secure", nor "dynamic" page which only loads for paying customers. Instead it could be potentially accessed by anyone who knows the page URL/web address. In this case, anybody who knows the link could potentially access your product for free. There are more secure ways to do this but they are usually paid solutions. Hope this helps!
Hi, that's a good point. Newer users of PayPal are no longer offered the PayPal buttons as shown in this video. But it is still valid for users who previously created buttons, as PayPal still provides this option to those users. Hope this helps!
the need for something so simple as dynamically calculated shipping just complicates everything... I really don't wanna use something like wix, I want something simple I can integrate with my site I made by hand. Every solution is just so complicated :( Stripe has shippo integration but being able to pay with paypal is an absolute necessity
Hi Vixie, we understand your frustration and absolutely agree with you. Wish there were more workable solutions out there. And as we said in the video, if PayPal would just fix this it would be handled for everyone.
Hello, I am making a ecommerce website for a client it is made completely from scratch. She doesnt sell a ton of products at all. But I implemented a user authentication system. Is there any way to make this so that a user can see their cart when logging in to the ecommerce website? Or does this only work for websites that don't have user accounts implemented? Any other payment solutions that you would suggest without using shopify and wix, but for one from scratch?
Hi RiV, Great question! If the user has items in the shopping cart, they should be able to see their cart whether the website has user accounts implemented or not. If user accounts are not implemented, a payment gateway such as PayPal would handle the shopping cart as well as the final payment transaction as a guest. I can only give general educational advice of course, so you’ll have to verify these choices for yourself and your client, but if I was building an e-commerce site, that doesn’t include Shopify in the mix, and even if it doesn’t have many products, the two e-commerce solutions I’d recommend are: 1. *WooCommerce* - the cheapest (free), but it has the greatest learning curve of these two solutions. 2. *BigCommerce* - cheaper overall than Shopify but with a greater learning curve than Shopify, but less than WooCommerce. Hope this helps RiV.
Hi Tibor, yes, PayPal buttons in sandbox mode work the same way as they do in live mode, but without real deposits and withdrawals. The PayPal Sandbox is a testing environment that is similar to the live PayPal production environment. If you create a "Add to Cart" button in sandbox mode, users can click the button, go through the PayPal login and payment process, and see a confirmation of the payment. However, since it’s in sandbox mode, no actual funds are transferred between accounts. Once you have thoroughly tested your PayPal integration in sandbox mode and are confident that it works correctly, you can switch to live mode. Simply replace the sandbox API credentials with live API credentials, and your same PayPal button will start processing real transactions. Hope this helps!
@@websitewiz Thank you so much for answering this, I even posted this question twice on the PayPal developer forum and nobody answered it after even a week. It was the only thing keeping our online store to be open. Thank you very much again!
How much is the charge of PayPal in every product the customer purchase, this should be added too to the regular price of the product so as not to affect the expected mark-up of the product.
Hi, thanks for your question! Please find PayPal's transaction fees here: www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/merchant-fees We also came across this video which shows you how to save almost 1% on your PayPal transaction fees, by using a different checkout system called: "PayPal Advanced Card Checkout". ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vzirrJUPDAo.html Please note that using the cheaper system, referred to in the above video, requires coding to integrate onto your website. But if you're planning on processing a lot of payments, it may be worth looking into this option. To be eligible for Advanced Card Checkout, you need to be living in one of the following countries, and then apply to PayPal to get upgraded: Australia Canada France Germany Italy Spain United States United Kingdom developer.paypal.com/docs/checkout/advanced/ Hope this helps!
Hi, thanks for your comment. Yes, they still have the 'Add to Cart' button available. However, you need to be logged in to see it. If you're not logged in, it doesn't show at the link: www.paypal.com/buttons/
Hi Salahuddin, thanks for your comment. It does appear that PayPal has made some changes to their button pages since we created this video and if you don't have any existing buttons already, the only way to use them is via a third party integration such as Wix, Squarespace, Shopify etc.
I pray to god that you notice my comment... what if I use an app on shopify (or even their native settings) that makes a discount when a customer adds 2 quantites, or even any pieces that are 2 or more... will the discount be applied using these smart buttons?
Hi, thank you for the great tutorial. My question is how to sell to customer in different provinces/countries which has different GST tax? I live in Canada, different province has different tax. How to do that with PayPal? Thank so much before :)
Hi, you're welcome! 😃 PayPal as a standalone solution is only really good for websites that have a few products going to a local market with no international shipping, or unusual tax requirements. To do what you're asking you would need to integrate PayPal into a complete e-commerce solution, such as BigCommerce or Shopify etc.
Hi Hamza, yes the 'Add to Cart' button allows customers to use credit card. But this option is *not* always available to all users, in all countries. And we believe this is also the case with the Smart button too, not just the 'Add to Cart' button. Basically, if you want your customers to be able to pay without a PayPal account, using credit card only, this is made possible through the PayPal Guest checkout. The guest checkout option is only allowed by PayPal as long as several risk factors are not present during checkout. These include, but are not limited to, 1. The buyer's PayPal purchase history. 2. Any negative cookies stored on the buyer's computer. 3. The buyer's location. 4. A credit assessment. If any of these factors raise a red flag for PayPal, they'll ask your buyer to log into their PayPal account, or create a new account, regardless of your option settings. You can watch this video on how to activate your guest checkout option here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-b1cFAZhAQ54.html
Hi Bill, You can have multiple items per page, each with their own button. In that case you would have each product in a separate frame on the one sales page instead of on a page of their own, as per the video. The item code is part of the code you copy from the PayPal website and imbed onto your product sales page (or frame) on your website. In that code is included all of the options you selected in the three parts of the button's setup, which is now part of the button's functionality. Hope this helps.
@@websitewiz I think I figured out a work around, as you can only have 15 buttons from what I understand per PayPal account. So in the button set up under the drop down Menu, I simply listed 10 different items, all same kind of item but all different, (all peppermills) which looks like it will function as a way to sell some of my things, and I have other pages with different items, but similar that I can do the same thing with. I'll see and let you know if it works.
hello i have been watching your videos for a while and i have created a online store , but I have a question . i use modalyst with wix , will the order be automatically fulfilled with the paypal button i integrate with this method. please help me out with this issue
Hi 😃 Thanks for your comment. Congrats on your online store! To better answer your question, we need a little more information. Are you on a paid plan with Wix, or are you using a free plan?
Hi, thanks for letting us know. From our research, we don't know of any way to connect Wix, Modalyst and PayPal, and make it work seamlessly for the customer, without paying for a Wix business Plan. The buttons in the video above are not designed to integrate with Modalyst in the way we think you're looking for. Reason being that Modalyst requires integration with the payment system to work. And the buttons in the video are standalone. So your best bet would be to pay for a Wix business plan. The minimum plan you can purchase that works with Modalyst is the Business Unlimited plan. From there, you can activate the PayPal payment solution within your Wix account. This is a far easier integration than the buttons in the video, as well as less effort to get everything working.
Hi Stephanie, It's still available when we checked in our PayPal business account. If it's still not there on yours, try contacting PayPal support: www.paypal.com/au/smarthelp/home Hope this helps.
Same here. PayPal has removed the add to cart option in our business account. Whole new interface. They appear to be trying to boost business for their partners. A big shame. Was an incredible feature...
Hi Adam, we're still able to create these buttons from our personal and business PayPal accounts. That's strange that you can't. Just curious, is the 'Add to Cart' buttons still not available to you?
