As a small business consultant and webmaster for several start-up organizations, including Another Way Driving School, Career Essentials, LLC and DaySong Studio, I am often asked to create donation buttons for an event or new service offering. This step by steps guide will take you through the basic steps of creating a button that you can insert into your website or email message.

1. Log into your personal or business PayPal account
2. Click on the “Merchant Services” tab at the top of the page
3. In the “Features you can use right now” area, click on the “Create payment buttons for your website” area.
4. On the “Create PayPal payment button” page and complete the first of three steps outlined to create the button:
   1. Step 1:
      1. Choose a button type and enter your payment details
      2. Buy Now Button Process:
         
      3. Give the item a name
      4. Select a price
      5. Customize the button if needed
         1. Drop-down menu with price options
         2. Drop-down menu (without price)
         3. Add text field
            
      6. Add shipping or tax if needed
5. Two additional steps are optional and include the ability to track inventory and customize the check out page.
6. Click the “Create Button” icon
   
7. Follow the final three steps to copy the code for insertion in an email or web page
   1. Click Select Code to select all the button code.
   2. Copy the code (CTRL+C for Windows, CMD+C for Mac — or right-click and choose Copy).
   3. Paste the code into your own website or email (CTRL+V for Windows, CMD+V for Mac — or right-click and choose Paste).
8. To paste the code into a web page open your website editor…
9. Log into the admin section of your website
10. Navigate to the page you want to edit
11. View the “source” code of the page
12. Scroll down to the section you want the button to appear and paste the code
13. View the page to see if it displays appropriately and save!

If you would like a brief personalized training session on creating a donation button for you own website contact me!