Office Live Small Business - PayPal
Short webcast showing how to add PayPal 'buy now' buttons to a Microsoft Office Live Small Business website.
Step 1: Installing The PayPal Button
In this session, we're going to look at creating a PayPal button for your website. You might want to use this to allow customers to purchase off your website using very basic "Buy Now" buttons that really facilitate eCommerce to allow ordering with credit cards or debit cards.
Step 2: Creating A New Page
First of all, I'm going to click 'Manage Pages' and 'Create a New Page.' I'll choose the general template, and we'll call the page 'Shop'. I'll also call the web address 'Shop'. Click on Finish. The new page is now being created. I will just get rid of the dummy data there, click 'Delete'.
Step 3: Setting Up A PayPal Account
Now, we need to go over to our PayPal account. If you don't have one already, you can sign up with PayPal just by going to paypal.com, entering all your details. And when you first go in there, it will drop you at the 'My Account' section and you need to come over to the tab called 'Merchant Services', go right down to the bottom of that page, and click on the Buy Now buttons.
Step 4: Navigating The Online Demo
Now, this one will take you into a section where you can actually see an online demo, read a technical overview, even have a look at a manual, techniques and examples, but all we're going to do now is just click on the 'Get Started' button to start using it straight away.
Step 5: Creating The Button
So what this does now, is it goes off and starts creating a button as you need for your website. I'm just going to call this 'Test', I can put in a price of a penny. I think I'll choose a different button - there are several we can choose from, I'd like a little bit of a bigger button than the one that's shown there. So let's choose this one here, which we'll see will be dropped into the site now. And we can accept all the other defaults, the button encryption is fine, the postage methods are fine, VAT options - Don't need to change anything there, I'll just click 'Create Button Now'.
Step 6: Creating The HTML Code
What it's doing now is generating, based on my PayPal account, the HTML code we need to drop into the website. Now this all looks very complicated, you don't need to worry about this because all you're going to do is click 'Select All' which highlights the code, and then click either 'Page' and 'Copy', or just hold down the Ctrl button and press "C" at the same time, which does the same thing, copies that highlighted code up into your clipboard.
Step 7: Applying The HTML Code
So when I have that copied into the clipboard, we can go back to our website and go 'Module', 'HTML', which brings up a little HTML module, we hold down the Ctrl key and press "V" at the same time, which actually pastes it back it from the clipboard. Click 'OK', and there is the PayPal button. Now we can highlight that, resize it a little bit, click 'Save' and then 'View'. That PayPal button appears on my website!
Step 8: The Finished Product
Now, in this area where a customer is going to buy something from you, they will click 'PayPal, Click here to pay'. That will take them into your PayPal account, where they can either log in to their PayPal account to pay you directly from PayPal, or they can just go to the section 'Don't have a PayPal account?', click on 'Continue', and they can just fill in a very simple online form to actually pay you directly by credit card or debit card. So this really is facilitating online payment from your customers, by credit card or debit card. It's as simple as that.
