I've been trying to add a paypal "pay now" link to and existing sharepoint 2010 web site.  I've tried pasting the generated paypal code into both the content editor web part and the HTML form web part, but i seem to be having problems with the <form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> not working.

Any suggestions?

Try using a href

<a href=https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr> Pay now</a>

• Marked as answer by Lily Wu Thursday, September 15, 2011 3:02 AM

Hi,

if you open your paypal site, you will find to options to integegrate paypal. The first one is the paypal button and the second one is the paypal link.

Jusst use the paypal link and put a image (for example the paypal button) around the link.

Cheers

Thanks.  I tried your idea of using the hfref, but it just gave me the same results.... a web page pops open showing the code behind the "pay now" button, but doesn't execute the post.

• Edited by Dale Skelton Monday, September 19, 2011 3:43 PM

Hi,

if you open your paypal site, you will find to options to integegrate paypal. The first one is the paypal button and the second one is the paypal link.

Jusst use the paypal link and put a image (for example the paypal button) around the link.

Cheers

this link should help you http://www.sharepointboris.net/2008/09/making-post-and-get-forms-from-sharepoints-

For anyone who is readying this for help..... this is what I've discovered about using PAYPAL with Sharepoint:

1. There is not a standard web part that will work with the paypal buttons (Pay Now, Add to Cart, etc) that you can get from the paypal site.
2. Mayur posted a link above that might work...haven't tried it yet.
3. You might be able to create an icon with a link to a paypal link.  Haven't tried that yet either.
4. What i did that finally worked, was to create three simple HTML web pages (1) a web page for successful payment with instructions and information; (2) a web page for cancelled payments with contact information for help; and (3) a web page with payment options and pictures.
5. Next I logged into PAYPAL and created PAYNOW and ADD TO CART buttons with the return urls for the successful payment and for the cancelled payment.  (Creating buttons is an option under profile and Selling tools.  The URLS are options under the advanced features of creating a button.)
6. Finally, I added the buttons to my payment options HTML web page and they worked fine.  Then I put a "RETURN TO MAIN SITE" button on the succesfull payment web page to take them back to my original site.
7. This has worked just fine for me so far.

Dale

I solved this problem using IFRAMEs.

You can try this sample of adding a complex PayPal button to your public SharePoint website

<iframe width="800" id="c91422ac-38c5-478b-a281-4900d5be841c" src="https://www.sharepointpay.com/aspWidget.asp?w=d6a16064-4931-49d9-872a-26639312086f" frameborder="0">&amp;amp;amp;lt;p&amp;amp;amp;gt;Your browser does not support iframes.&amp;amp;amp;lt;/p&amp;amp;amp;gt;</iframe>