PayPal button tools

Payment Buttons and Standard Buttons support

PayPal provides 2 types of payment buttons. Free Tools includes a tool for each kind. Find out which one is right for you...

PayPal Standard Buttons

• Support for Add to cart and View cart, Buy Now, Donation and Subscription buttons
• Use with any type of PayPal account.
• You can also add PayPal Credit checkout buttons with your buy now or donation buttons - if you have a PayPal business account.
  Learn more about PayPal Credit »
• These buttons are hosted on your site.
• These buttons offer more customization options from the wizard.
  For example, your product details can all be database-driven, even product options (like colors, sizes, etc.)
• You have the option to directly edit the button code in Dreamweaver (if you know what you're doing).
• They are less secure than buttons hosted on PayPal's site because the button code is in the web page source code, thus could be altered by a technically savvy but unethical customer.

Payment Buttons for PayPal

• Support for Buy now, Add to cart and View cart buttons
• You must have a PayPal Business or Premier account to use PayPal Toolkit buttons.
• These buttons are hosted on PayPal's site and are more secure because the button code is not in the web page source code, thus cannot be altered by a technically savvy but unethical customer.
• These buttons are less customizable as PayPal only offers so many options for them.
  For example, you cannot use these buttons with database-driven products.
• These buttons can be used on multiple websites without needing to be recreated since they are hosted on PayPal's site, not your own site.

Customize your buttons

With either tool, you can you one of PayPal's provided buttons (available in: English, Spanish, Polish, Dutch, German, French, Italian, Chinese and Japanese) or you can use your own custom buttons. All currencies supported by PayPal are supported in Free Tools.

With PayPal Standard buttons, you can also choose to automatically include a PayPal Credit button if you want to offer that service to your customers.