Usually we use our Facebook pages to send visitors to our web sites, but sometimes we might want to directly sell in the page and avoid the visit-the-web extra step. This is what I was trying to do yesterday. I wanted to use my Facebook page as a sales page and place a buy button that goes directly to the paypal checkout page.
The problem is that the button’s standard code PayPal gives you does not work inside iframes. The solution is to use the email code instead.
Let me show you how…
Create your button as you normally do. When you go to the page where PayPal gives you the button’s code, do not copy the standard code but the email-code.
This code is like a regular link, and this is how you use it.
Keep in mind that the email code is only the URL where the link points to. You need to build the link. To do it,go to the page where you want to add the button, insert the image you want to use as a button and add a link to it using the URL PayPal gives you.
This is how the final code will look.
Easy, right?
If you want to see a live sample, you can do it in our FB Bang Page.
Thanks for this – we used it to add paypal buttons to our FB page.
Nathan, how did you incorporate it? I tried but when I click on the buy now button it just shows a white area in the FB tab.
Paypal did not give me the email option, only the full html code
Thought this was going to save the day. Disappointed that Paypal did not have the email option you suggested. Sure wish this integration wasn’t so difficult. SHould be so simple and cannot locate my Paypal URL anywhere. I have the page ready to go in Facebook but just need this one simple little thing to enter in the html area so it works right.
You must be doing something wrong. Just create a button, and in the screen where Paypal give you the code you should paste in your website, you should see two tabs one that says website and one than says email(just as in the picture above). There is no secret.
for some reason Paypal only gives me the full code tab and no email. i think that’s the problem, i can’t get the URL because of that.
This must be something about your Paypal account.
You can NOT use drop-down menus, or text fields to get the link.If you do you will not see the email tab
I’ve found if its just a single item (no colour/drop down menus ) it will give you an email code, if you have options it will only give you website code.
However PayPal has just changed its website and I can’t even find where to make buttons anymore, frustrating !
@Melani
To create a new button go to My Account/Profile/More Options.
Under “Selling Online”, you will see the option “Paypal Buttons”. Click “Change”. This will show a new page with a list of all your buttons and a link to create new ones.
You can also go to Merchant Services (from the main menu), scroll down a little and you will sea a list of Key Features. Click on “Buy Now Buttons”.
Hope this helps!
What about having different prices. I sell images of different sizes, and other decorations. I’m new to the whole paypal selling option and it’s a little vexing.
As far as I know, you will not be given an email link for dropdown menus, so you can’t use the method I describe to add your button to Facebook.
The only option that comes to my mind is to create a different button for each size, color…
Nathan,
I followed your instructions and the paypal button shows correctly, but when clicked on i get sent to something that looks like this.
https://relativeimagesnotsupported.pleaseusestaticpaths.com
Any suggestions?
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I appreciate it -Jeanne
ive created the button and copied the email link. But i would like to know where do i paste the link on the page?
Paste the code where you want it to appear in the HTML code of the page.
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