Create an online checkout in minutes. No developer needed.

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If you feel like your growing business needs a checkout upgrade, you’re not alone. The wish list for checkouts is long.

Checkout should be:

  • Low cost for business owners
  • Quick and easy to build without hiring software developers
  • Secure for business owners and customers
  • Adaptable for mobile commerce and global currencies

You can avoid the heavy lifting with PayPal​ Buy Buttons. PayPal Buy Buttons offer your customers a professional checkout experience on your existing website. And a great part is that you don’t need coding knowledge to implement them.​

What are Buy Buttons

Buy Buttons give you an easy way to create a secure checkout experience on your website. You’ll get paid into your PayPal Business account within minutes of the transaction completion.

Customisable Buy Buttons are built with the flexibility to accommodate different online businesses. You can set them up with a fixed price for individual items, or allow shoppers to enter the payment amount, suitable if you offer variable pricing.

Who should use PayPal’s low-code payment tools?

Low-code payment tools are ideal for businesses that need a customisable checkout solution, without expensive developers or e-commerce software subscriptions. Online sellers with limited product offerings can easily embed Buy Buttons on product pages. And service-oriented businesses that rely on invoices can have customers pay online by entering the payment amount.

They’re a cost-effective way for businesses to benefit from fast and secure payment while maintaining flexibility at checkout. In fact, merchants have been shown to experience a 28% increase in sales after implementing PayPal Payment Buttons and Links alongside their existing payment solutions.i

How do low-code solutions work?

Unlike coding from scratch, low-code platforms let you add new features to your website quickly.

With PayPal Buy Buttons, you design your checkout page in a simple editor in your PayPal Business account, including setting the colour and size you need, and adding order notes. The PayPal platform then generates a code snippet for you, providing step-by-step instructions for copying and pasting the code to your website. Then you’re ready to start taking payments. You don’t need coding experience to get your checkout set up.

When you want to make updates to your checkout experience, you can make edits in the editor. The changes sync to your website with one click.

What are the benefits of using PayPal Buy Buttons?

PayPal Buy Buttons are an easy way to turn your website into a true e-commerce storefront. They’re free to build and embed into your website, with no setup costs or subscription fees.

Get paid almost any time, almost anywhere

  • Get paid quickly and easily
  • Accept payments in up to 200 markets and 24 currencies
  • ​​​Let customers pay with PayPal, Pay Later, Apple Pay®, credit and debit cards, and more
  • Allow customers to pay you even if they don’t have a PayPal account

Get growing with quick setup and integration

  • Save time and money with no need for developer resources
  • Reach more customers, including up to 400 million PayPal users globallyii
  • Convert more customers with PayPal’s checkout experience

Get ahead with fraud protection

  • Benefit from PayPal-powered checkout and PayPal Seller Protection on eligible transactions
  • Automate fraud prevention and dispute resolution

How do I get started?

Ready to add a PayPal Buy Button to your website? It’s easy and free to use.

Build a PayPal Buy Button right now.

Add checkout to any website.

  1. Create or log in to your PayPal Business account.
  2. Navigate to Payment Links and Buttons.
  3. Build your checkout experience by adding in your product or service details, images, payment options, and more.
  4. Click on “Build it” to create your 5 lines of code.
  5. Copy and paste the code into your website using PayPal’s step-by-step instructions.
  6. After setup, you’ll never need to touch the code again. Any updates that you make in PayPal to your Buy Button will automatically show on your website.
  7. Now, it’s time to get paid.

That’s all that you need to be ready to sell online and expand your business in new markets. And it’s all with no subscription fees or contracts. So you only pay when you get paid.

Don’t have a website? Use Payment Links to get paid any time, virtually anywhere.

Visit our documentation page to learn more.

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