PayPal Setup

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Overview

The PayPal payment link can be used in emails to give the buyer a link to pay via PayPal. This is very handy as the buyer only has to enter his PayPal password in order to make payment. The payment references the invoice number created by AS and when you receive payment notice from PayPal it will reference that invoice number. Buyer's like the payment link because it makes paying so easy.

Your PayPal email address is required for the payment link to work.

Your PayPal password is required so the PPP can login to PayPal to download payments. Your password is stored on your machine in encoded form and only sent to the paypal secure server when logging in.
PayPal Payment Link - To use the PayPal payment link you must enter your PayPal email address in File - Setup - PayPal Preferences

Formletter code - <PAYPALLINK>

Link for Buyer to pay via PayPal

The link is as follows

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_xclick&business=[EMAIL]&item_name=[INVOICE]&amount=[AMOUNT]

  • [EMAIL] is replaced by your paypal email address
  • [INVOICE] is replaced by the invoice number
  • [AMOUNT] is replaced by the amount due

The buyer clicks the link and goes to PayPal where all they have to do is enter their password and then click another button and they are done. I have reports that buyer's really like the ease with which they can pay using this link.

You receive payment notice from PayPal referencing the invoice number so you can then search by invoice number to find what was paid for.

By default the currency type is US Dollars. If you do business in different currency you can edit the paypay link in File - Setup - Paypal Preferences as follows

Currency Symbol Code to insert
Canadian Dollars C $ currency_code=CAD
Euros € currency_code=EUR
Pounds Sterling (£) GBP £ currency_code=GBP
Yen (¥) JPY ¥ currency_code=JPY

As an example, assuming you transact in Pounds Sterling, the paypal payment link should be edited to look like this:

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_xclick&currency_code=GBP&business=[EMAIL]&item_name=[INVOICE]&amount=[AMOUNT]

** For those who also accept web payments and have their paypal shipping preference set to automatically add shipping and sales tax to an item, you can override that option by adding the following to the end of the paypal link

&shipping=0.00&tax=0.00

With the above added to the end of your paypal payment link PayPal won't add any additional charge to the bill.

Dont forget the & symbol which separates parameters in the link.