Creating a payment button with PayPal is a fairly straight forward process but there are a few tips many newbies aren’t aware of which add extra professionalism to your site and sales process.

In this video I’ll show you how to use an exisitng resale-rights salepages and modifiy it so that it contains the code that puts the payment directly into your paypal account.

Furthermore I’ll show you how to use the redirect function so your customer is sent directly to the product download page once the payment is processed, even if you are selling multipule products!

Once you’re aware of these little tricks then using PayPal will be fine for you to begin with.  When you have a bit more experience you may want to consider a payment script alongside your PayPal account.

Why Use A Payment Script?

Security: Once you reveal your download link to someone there is nothing to stop them copying it and distributing it on the internet!  As a solution you could use a script such as DLGuard which secures your download links.

Email Confirmation: The other benefit of using a script is that when a payment is complete in addition to forwarding your customer to the secure download link they will also be sent an email containing the link.  This is something PayPal doesn’t do.  Paypal does of course inform your customer that funds have been taken but it is more professional if you can send your own automated reponse to thank your customer and remind them of the download link.

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