This widget allows you to create/manage a PayPal button on your site’s page. It can be used for selling goods on a website or collecting donations via PayPal.
PayPal button widget is separated into two main tabs: "Settings" and "Design".
Settings - this tab contains the following functions and blocks: "Type", "PayPal Email", "Open in", "Payment Details", "Additional Expenses", "Display".
"Type" - this feature allows you to change button payment type. You can use "Buy Now" and "Donate" types for selling and charity purposes.
You can connect your "PayPal button" widget to your PayPal ID or an email address associated with your PayPal account.
"Open in" feature allows you to choose whether the PayPal payment system should be opened in a new window or on the current page.
"Payment Details" block contains the following features - "Item Name", "Item ID", "Currency", "Contribution Amount", "Price".
"Item Name" feature allows you to specify the name of the item.
"Item ID" feature allows you to specify the ID of the item.
The following currencies are present in the "Currency" dropdown: "AUD", "BRL", "CAD", "CZK", "DKK", "EUR", "HKD", "HUF", "ILS", "JPY", "MYR", "MXN", "NOK", "NZD", "PHP", "PLN", "GBP", "RUB", "SGD", "SEK", "CHF", "TWD", "THB", "USD".
There are two "Contribution Amount" types available - "Any amount" and "Fixed amount" for a specific price.
If "Fixed amount" feature is selected, the price can be specified in the "Donation Amount" field.
"Price" field is available only if "Buy Now" payment type was selected. This field is similar to "Fixed Amount" field.
"Additional expenses" block is available only for "Buy Now" payment type and contains the following features - "Shipping Rate", "Tax Amount (%)".
"Shipping Rate" feature is for adding the price for delivery of the purchase.
"Tax Amount (%)" feature is for adding the taxed price.
"Display" block allows you to edit the following settings: "Spacing", "Alignment", "Visible On".
"Design" tab contains a number of presets, which change the visual appearance of the PayPal button widget based on the selected "Button Types" feature -"PayPal Button", "Theme Button", "Custom image".
"PayPal Button" is for a usual PayPal button, and it has the following features - "Button Style", "Country and Language", "Button Text".
"Button Style" feature allows you to modify the usual PayPal button.
There are three styles available - "Default", "Hide credit cards logos", "Use smaller button".
"Default" style is for a default PayPal button.
"Hide credit cards logos" style is for hiding the cards brands on a PayPal button.
"Use smaller button" style is for making the PayPal button thinner.
"Country and Language" feature allows you to change a language for your default PayPal button.
The following countries and languages are present: "United States", "Australia", "United Kingdom", "French (Canadian)", "Spanish", "Italian", "French", "German", "Portuguese (Brazilian)", "Chinese (Simplified)", "Danish", "Chinese (Hong Kong)", "Indonesian", "Hebrew", "Japanese", "Dutch", "Norway", "Polish", "Portuguese", "Russian", "Swedish", "Thai", "Chinese (Taiwan)".
If "Buy Now" type was selected, you will see an additional "Button Text" feature in the "Design" tab for the "PayPal button" type.
This "Button Text" feature allows selecting a premade text "Buy Now", "Pay Now" for the button.
"Theme Button" type is for a template theme-based button, and it has the following features - "Button Text", "Button Preset", "Size".
"Button Text" feature allows typing another text for the button.
"Button Preset" feature allows you to change the "Theme Button" appearance by selecting one of the premade presets.
"Size" feature allows you to choose the "Theme button" size -"Small", "Medium" and "Large".
"Custom Image" type is for a button with your own custom image. It has the following features -"Image", "Title", "Alt Text".
"Image" feature is for adding a custom picture for your button. It has Add/Delete options.
"Add" option redirects you to "Media Library" where you can choose an existing image or upload and use a new one for your button.
"Delete" option removes the image for your button.
"Title" - your image’s title (it can be changed within the same field for a mentioned image within the Media Library). Also, it improves SEO (when you overlay an image with cursor - you will see the image’s title). Search engines can also index such a title.
"Alt Text" - this text will appear instead of your image if your browser’s settings block the possibility to preview images.
This widget belongs to the More widget category. Check out the other widgets in this category at the following link: Google Map, Google Map Pro, Google Calendar, MailChimp, Disqus, Countdown Timer, Counter, Accordion, Tabs, Popup, Progress Bar, Circular Progress Bar, Scroll To, Slideshare, Breadcrumbs, iFrame, Embed, Google Search and Google Search Results.
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