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Set up PayPal and linked to our club website, link to PayPal not working

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Set up PayPal and linked to our club website, link to PayPal not working

10 years 1 month ago
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I just set up our club's PayPal account yesterday and the link for PayPal (in the email from Treasurer) is not working.

Should I give this transaction a few days to work?
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Re: Set up PayPal and linked to our club website, link to PayPal not working

10 years 1 month ago
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Please provide your club number in every post so we can see what is happening.
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Re: Set up PayPal and linked to our club website, link to PayPal not working

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Re: Set up PayPal and linked to our club website, link to PayPal not working

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The button code is wrong... It should look similar to:
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https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=8HBNXBHMDAMX6

However, the hosted button id will be specific to your club's Paypal account. (do not use the one above)
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Re: Set up PayPal and linked to our club website, link to PayPal not working

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The key thing to understand here is that the button code used in email must be strictly a valid URL, nothing else... no html tags will work in it.

Here is why... what you enter for the email button code gets plugged in for "{paypalcode}" in the following html snippet which is what is actually used in the email. Note that it is inserted in a link href, which means it must be a URL only. The resulting html must make sense....
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<br><a href="{paypalcode}"><img src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_paynow_LG.gif"></a>
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Re: Set up PayPal and linked to our club website, link to PayPal not working

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Thank you so much for your help. The "key" word here is to use the "email" tab and I was using the other tab. Works great and now all of my club members will renew their membership dues early and without my "nagging".

Wonderful support.
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