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Paypal Question

by Christie Love
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Hi, Can someone tell me how to attach an electronic product to my Paypal buy button? I want buyers to receive their product via email as soon as they make payment.

Your help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks!
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  • Profile picture of the author Kim Standerline
    Hi Christie

    I believe you have to sign up to ejunkie or DLguard (or something similer) to do that. (Be interested to know if I'm wrong cos I didn't know you coud do it if you can!

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  • Profile picture of the author Christie Love
    Thanks Kim. Someone told me it's really simple. All I have to do is click on the advanced section of the payment button area? Hmmm. I don't see it and Paypal is no help.
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    • Profile picture of the author rondo
      Originally Posted by Christie Love View Post

      Thanks Kim. Someone told me it's really simple. All I have to do is click on the advanced section of the payment button area? Hmmm. I don't see it and Paypal is no help.
      You'll need a Business or Premier account to set up a return page.

      Even then it won't deliver the product via email. You will need a separate shopping cart with that function in order to do that.


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  • Profile picture of the author webpromotions
    You could just set your payment button's return page to a php page w/ a simple line of code that generates the email you want (which would include your download link), then choose the 'encrypt' option from with Paypal so people can't see this link from your purchase page, but of course that wouldn't keep people from sharing the link.

    I guess thats where something like DLguard would come into play.
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  • Profile picture of the author doitforthekids
    Hey Christie,

    I think this will help you... since I've been doing this for awhile. Here goes.

    I assume of course that your electronic "whatever" is hosted on a server somewhere. If so... you will create a download page, and call it "download.html"

    On that download page you will insert the link to your electronic "whatever". The download page and your electronic "whatever" is hosted on the same server.

    When you create your paypal button, there's an option to continue... and that is where you enter the details to your download page. (url)

    What that is going to do is every time a customer clicks the Paypal button to pay, and payment is accepted, he will then be redirected to the download page.

    I hope this answers your question. You might get it wrong the first few times around. Just test it till you get it right.
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  • Profile picture of the author ecdavis
    Warrior member BigMike sells a very inexpensive product that interfaces with PayPal to provide a secure, automated download. Although you can set up a PayPal button to direct someone to a thank you page with a download link, or send out an email with a download link, in order to have a secure, automated download page you may need 3rd party software. I mention this because I just recently bought and installed his product. It works like a charm and cost less than a car wash.
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  • Profile picture of the author Micheal Perkins
    Another option is a service called Payloadz. I believe this is owned by PayPal, but I'm not positive.

    Anyway you can upload your product to their server and they provide a payment button also. Then when the customer makes payment, they are emailed the download link to the product on payloadz server.

    They have 48 hours to download the product after payment, then the link expires. If they try to download after that, they are directed to contact you directly at the email you provide. Then you can see if they already downloaded the product and decide if you want to give them another one or not.
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