Transaction through PayPal is very common for online shopping these days. PayPal can be used to sell both digital and non-digital products. If you do not use a WordPress Shopping Cart on your site, you might want to know how you can easily create a simple ‘Buy Now‘ button with PayPal and put on your product page or post to sell products.
In this tutorial I am going to show you how to create a simple ‘Buy Now’ button with PayPal. If you do not have a PayPal account, you can sign up for one here. If you already have a PayPal account, all you need to do is just log in to your account and follow the tutorial.
You can have either a PayPal ‘Personal’ or ‘Premier‘ or ‘Business‘ account to be able to create ‘Buy Now‘ buttons. If your account type is ‘Personal‘, you can always upgrade it to ‘Premier‘ or ‘Business‘ for free.
This is a very basic tutorial to create a simple ‘Buy Now‘ button. I did not customize the ‘Buy Now‘ button or the settings but you can play around with it on your own. Alternatively, if you are using WordPress then you can use a Free WordPress Shopping Cart plugin which will automatically create a simple PayPal button for you. The Free WordPress Shopping Cart can be found here.
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I want to sell mp3 from my website. After watching your nice tutorial I think now I’ll be able to create a “Buy Now” button for my mp3.
But I’ve a question, Is there any other way to send mp3 file to my customers without letting them know the location of my mp3 file?
Thanks
Michael
Hi Michael,
Using a plain Paypal “Buy Now” button is good when you have less customer. But when you have more customer I think It is very difficult to manage them by sending mp3 file manually.
That’s why It’s good to use a shopping cart plugin which will automatically handle your sales and send mp3 files to your customers. You might try WP eStore plugin. After any customer makes a payment, this plugin creates an encrypted link of the product (e.g- mp3) and send that download link to your customer. So your customer can’t know the true location of the file.
I have a post on how to sell mp3 from a wordpress blog using WP eStore plugin. You can find it here-
http://www.wordpress-ecommerce.com/how-to-sell-mp3-from-a-wordpress-site-619
Cheers
Thanks. I’m going to check it out now.
good post and tut, but you dont need to have a premier or business account in order to use a buy now button. i have a personal account myself and i have buy now buttons on my page. just log in, go to merchant services, and click on standard website payments.
When I made this tutorial Paypal wouldn’t allow configuring Payment button in personal account. May be now Paypal allows it. Anyway, Thanks for your information.
It Wordpress does not allow to add the code anymore.
I tried it but Wordpress stripped all the code when I hit publish/Update.
Do you know how to get around it?
how to customize buynow button.
pls give me quick solutions for that