I’ve seen many people asking this question around, so I thought I’d answer it here. It’s really pretty simple once you get the hang of it…

Log into your Paypal account and go to:

Merchant services –> Buy Now Button

You will see 3 steps. Click on the first tab:

Step 1: Choose a button type and enter your payment details – enter the data about your product: name, price, currency
Step 2: Track inventory, profit & loss (optional) – you will not need this for online/digital products
Step 3: Customize advanced features (optional) – yes, you will need this step. The most important parts are:

• Take customers to this URL when they cancel their checkout:
  – You’ll probably want to enter your site URL;

The most important part is this:

• Take customers to this URL when they finish checkout:
  – You’ll need to enter the “Thank You” page, where they can download their purchase.

Click “save changes” and you will be taken to a page with HTML code. Click on “select code” which will copy it for you and then you can do to your site and paste it.
And that’s it, you’re done!

All your buttons are saved, so if you want to change something – for example change the currency from USD to CAD, or change the price, you can go to:
Merchant services ==> my saved buttons –> see list of your buttons –> edit button

You will see: item name, price and currency. You can change the currency by selecting the one you want from the drop down menu.

Every time you make changes to your button you need to re-generate the button code and replace the code that you have now with the new code on your page.

Please leave a comment below if you have any questions or comments.