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Title: Paypal button
Post by: poole bay on April 12, 2011, 09:32:44 pm
Why does paypal not have a pay now button it comes up with others like buy now and I wanted to add it to my website any one done this does it have to be a bussiness account to have pay now on the site
Title: Re: Paypal button
Post by: mci services on April 12, 2011, 09:39:12 pm
there should be drop down menu when you select buy now you change it to pay now
Title: Re: Paypal button
Post by: Tom White on April 12, 2011, 09:39:57 pm
Stu, how much does paypal charge you, and how easy is it to translate payments into cash; or do you just buy stuff from e-bay with your payments?
Title: Re: Paypal button
Post by: mci services on April 12, 2011, 09:44:59 pm
I can't remember the exact charges I will check, cheaper than collecting though and probably cheaper than banking cheques.

you just transfer the money to your account it takes around three days

I also offer bacs and that is preferred
Title: Re: Paypal button
Post by: Dean Taberner on April 12, 2011, 09:53:09 pm
I have a donate paypal button

www.deantabernerwindowcleaning.com

With them donating and not paying it means that it is tax free.

Dean.
Title: Re: Paypal button
Post by: mci services on April 12, 2011, 09:56:40 pm
I have a donate paypal button

www.deantabernerwindowcleaning.com

With them donating and not paying it means that it is tax free.

Dean.

are you being serious Dean, I can see on the site you have the donate button, but that is supposed to be for charity's ??? sorry I mean are you being serious about the tax free bit. :o
Title: Re: Paypal button
Post by: Tom White on April 12, 2011, 09:57:13 pm
I have a donate paypal button

www.deantabernerwindowcleaning.com

With them donating and not paying it means that it is tax free.

Dean.

Dean, you need to get rid of Formby, mate; serious.  I'd also check with your accountant about the tax status of what your customers 'donate' to you for cleaning their windows.  ;D
Title: Re: Paypal button
Post by: Dean Taberner on April 12, 2011, 10:00:40 pm
Haha,

No stu I'm not being serious :-D

Tosh there's nothing wrong with formby.
Title: Re: Paypal button
Post by: mci services on April 12, 2011, 10:02:26 pm
 ;D ;D that is ok then, I was going to say you are nuts ;D
Title: Re: Paypal button
Post by: mci services on April 12, 2011, 10:24:17 pm
mmm I have just been having a dig round the paypal site and it looks like you can't get a pay now option for the button, I have one on my site. so I suppose Dean using the donate button makes sense, It used to give you a pay now option
Title: Re: Paypal button
Post by: Dean Taberner on April 12, 2011, 10:27:01 pm
Yeah that's right stu,

The pay now button wasn't an option for me.

The donate button works fine though and there have been no problems so far.
Title: Re: Paypal button
Post by: mikecam on April 12, 2011, 10:29:41 pm
Why does paypal not have a pay now button it comes up with others like buy now and I wanted to add it to my website any one done this does it have to be a bussiness account to have pay now on the site

There is a paypal pay now facility and button that you can put on your site. Have a search through the paypal site, if you can't find it i have a script which was produced for dreamweaver which does this, i'm sure i got it from the pay pal site though.
 Downside is that paypal charge you sometyhing like 40 pence for every transaction.
Title: Re: Paypal button
Post by: mikecam on April 12, 2011, 10:31:09 pm
Stu, how much does paypal charge you, and how easy is it to translate payments into cash; or do you just buy stuff from e-bay with your payments?
You just transfer your paypal balance to your bank account, a few simple mouse clicks. Paypal charges about 40 pence per transaction.
Title: Re: Paypal button
Post by: mci services on April 12, 2011, 10:34:03 pm
that is annoying though as I need to add a few options to my pay now buttons but it looks like I can't add any more now ???

the bonus with donate button is they input what they owe, but it just doesn't good to me
Title: Re: Paypal button
Post by: mci services on April 12, 2011, 10:36:45 pm
Stu, how much does paypal charge you, and how easy is it to translate payments into cash; or do you just buy stuff from e-bay with your payments?
You just transfer your paypal balance to your bank account, a few simple mouse clicks. Paypal charges about 40 pence per transaction.

they stopped charging to withdraw money, it used to be free if over £50 but now any amount is free to withdraw
Title: Re: Paypal button
Post by: mikecam on April 12, 2011, 10:41:22 pm
Stu, how much does paypal charge you, and how easy is it to translate payments into cash; or do you just buy stuff from e-bay with your payments?
You just transfer your paypal balance to your bank account, a few simple mouse clicks. Paypal charges about 40 pence per transaction.

they stopped charging to withdraw money, it used to be free if over £50 but now any amount is free to withdraw
Yeah, sorry i meant they charge 40 pence per customer who pays you through it.
Title: Re: Paypal button
Post by: mci services on April 12, 2011, 10:43:29 pm
ok the exact fee for receiving is 3.4% plus 20pence under £1500

just seen you last reply mikecam :D but yes it is pennys
Title: Re: Paypal button
Post by: Nick Wareham on April 12, 2011, 11:06:21 pm
You dont want a donate button, you want input boxes so that customers typr in their name, address and amount, and then a "pay now" button.

I struggled with this a few months ago, but I perfected it, use the code I used:

http://www.cleanitup.co.uk/smf/index.php?topic=102591.msg872258#msg872258