Using PayPal
Payment buttons
To add a PayPal donation button to your website, you must first of all log-in to your PayPal account.
Then follow this link to take you to the following page:
- Choose a button type - a Donations button may need you to prove that you are a not for profit organisation!
- Enter the Organisation name/service such as Club-Sites
- Donation ID such as Wishing Well
- The two fields above serve as a reference for the Donor
- Customise button if desired.
- Currency of the donation (GBP is Pounds Sterling)
- Contribution amount - Choose variable or fixed amounts.
- Choose other options as appropriate.
Click Customise advanced features on this page and complete the Customise checkout pages section.
Use the section Can your customer add special instructions in a message to you? to give your donor the opportunity to leave you a short message. You wish to change the prompt to Leave us a message: or similar.
You may Need your customer's postal address? if you are claiming Gift Aid.
In the Cancel Payment URL box, enter http://club-sites.co.uk/_paypalno.html View this page
In the Successful Payment URL box, enter http://club-sites.co.uk/_paypalyes.html View this page
You may, if you wish, create your own fail and success pages. Then simply change the URLs above to reflect that.
Finally click Create Button and you will see the HTML code for your button.
To display the button on every page, copy and paste the code into the Constant 1 box in the Control File, otherwise switch to HTML view 
and paste the code in at an appropriate point in one of your pages.
When a visitor makes a payment, you will be informed by PayPal by email.
Online payments
In order to take online payments via our booking system, you need to enable such payments in your PayPal account and also obtain security codes from them.
In your PayPal account, select Account settings from the drop-down control top right of the PayPal page
In the Account settings page, next to API Access select Update
There are two items to find on the Credentials page:
NVP/SOAP API integration (Classic)
and Accept or block payments...
Select Manage PayPal checkout settings first to let PayPal know that you wish to accept online payments
There is a simple Accept or Block option
Return to the Credentials page and select Manage API credentials
You will be given the three API factors
They may then be copied and pasted into the Control File on this website in the Bookings section
Your PayPal account is ready for use but see the next section - Test Mode
Test Mode
To enable you to fully test your booking form we have created a Test Mode. You complete your form as a purchaser and click on the PayPal payment button but you will automatically be directed to a PayPal Sandbox (dummy) page instead of the real PayPal page. The page is https://sandbox.paypal.com
You enable Test Mode when you create or edit your event in the Bookings system
Your booking form will display a warning that you are in Test Mode
THIS FORM IS IN TEST MODE
No payment will be taken
Using the Sandbox is identical to the real page and you may simulate paying by PayPal account or credit card, change your address etc but no money will be taken when you are returned to your booking form.
Our system processes the order as normal and will send a confirmation email (with QR Coded tickets if you have the Ticket-Bytes option enabled). The system also sends an email to whoever should receive notification that an order has been received, normally bookings Admin contact and Payments contact. You will see the booking in your list of current bookings.
You may set-up your own Sandbox account when logged-in to your PayPal account but we have already set-up an account for you to use. The username is test.user@squarezone.co.uk and password is Farnborough (with capital F).
The Sandbox payment page has a dummy address, which you may change if you wish but don't use a real address
While in Test Mode, should a member of the public try to make a booking using their real PayPal credentials, their log-in details will be rejected.
Account activity
From time-to-time PayPal update their website and our page may become out-of-date, however the general principles remain
As a 'merchant', when you log-in to your PayPal account you will be greeted with the following summary page displaying available funds and recent activity on your account.
If you click on Activity (including balance & fees), on the next page you will see more detail and can select different periods.
If you would like to print a postage label, refund etc or download the transactions you should click on the Activity tab.
On the Activity page use the drop-down in the Actions column as appropriate.
If you click on the Download link on the right hand side of the Activity page, the Download History page will open.
Here you may select the date range, type of file download and optionally Include Shopping Cart details, which enables greater analysis of your transactions.
PayPal fees
Please refer to PayPal if you have any queries relating to your account with them as we are not able to help because we have no access to your PayPal account.
PayPal currently charge 30p plus 2.9% on transactions but if you are a registered charity the rate falls to 20p plus 1.4%.
An example might be:
Donation of £10: PayPal fee is 10.00 x 1.4 / 100 = 0.14p + 20p = 34p for registered charities and 10.00 x 2.9 / 100 = 0.29p + 30p = 59p for others.
See the PayPal website for full fee information
