Yesterday Shira was paying an electronic invoice when she noticed a neat feature. The invoice contained a link that took her right to PayPal and had her all queued up and ready to pay. We didn't need to ask the person what their PayPal e-mail was, payment was just a click away.
I was so impressed that of course I dropped all my real work to make a little tool that Shira could use to send these kind of links to our customers. And here's the result.
Fill in the details below and click Make PayPal Link. The text area below will fill in with a link. You can then paste this link in an e-mail, on your blog, in your twitter feed, even on the side of a building. Just get creative.
Note: This form is JavaScript based, which means you aren't submitting this information to me or anyone else. Your paypal e-mail and other details won't be visible to anyone, I promise.
This is so cool! Can you please include a couple of most common currencies like EUR, CAD, GBP?
ReplyDeleteOh, never mind! I can easily replace it in the generated URL!
ReplyDeleteThank you!
Anonymous - glad you figured it out!
ReplyDelete-Ben
THANKS! But how do you simplify it into a button?
ReplyDeleteIf you copy the code that's generated into your website/blog/etc. it should appear as a link automatically.
ReplyDeleteThanks. Still working two years on.
ReplyDeleteSuper - glad you found it useful.
ReplyDeleteWe actually still use this blog entry almost on a monthly basis when we send invoices to clients.
Paypal charges a fee to Send money (for businesses), but no fee to Give money (to Friends).
ReplyDeleteSo how do I create, or modify, the code to Give money to a friend?
this wont show up as a link it shows the whole code, how do I fix this?
ReplyDeleteVery useful thx.
ReplyDeleteThanks! Will be using this to add a few products to my site.
ReplyDeleteGreat tool!!! Whats your paypal address, so you can get some donations?
ReplyDeleteLove it. I use this often. Thank You!!
ReplyDeleteAwesome. Got me started.. then I found PayPal's manual on how to do this type of stuff.. Note that I got this original link from the PayPal website which links to this x.com.. which I guess belongs to PayPal? Anycase it has the instructions about to do this.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.x.com/sites/default/files/pp_websitepaymentsstandard_integrationguide.pdf
Yes, x.com is owned by PayPal. I suppose it's their developer site. Kind of a odd domain name choice, but if you own a single letter domain, and a cool one at that, why not put it to good use, right?
ReplyDeleteIf you want to separate shipping costs ($10 for example), at the end of the code add
ReplyDelete&shipping=10
Thank you! Used it on a client's site, I've been looking for something like this for ages!
ReplyDeleteYeah, this only sends me to paypal without a purchase link. It doesn't work.
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