Get PayPal button URL instead?

I’m trying to figure this one out, hopefully there’s a simple answer.

I’d like to get a PayPal URL for a checkout button INSTEAD of a shortcode or embed code. Reason is that I’m using a landing page plugin for wordpress that allows a URL as a button, but not shortcodes or anything longer.

I suppose I could take the embed code and figure out how to hand-code it on PayPal so it creates the same, but then I’d be worried about if S2 would handle the new customer properly.

Any tips/tricks would be appreciated.

Hi Skip,

You can force the s2Member PayPal Button Shortcode to output a URL instead of outputting a button. Simply change the output= attribute to either url or anchor. See the following description of the output= attribute from Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Buttons -› Shortcode Attributes (Explained):

output=”button” Output Type. Possible values: button = PayPal® Button w/hidden inputs, anchor = PayPal® Button ( < a > anchor tag ) URL w/ ?query string, url = raw URL w/ ?query string.

ok i was able to get the URL version, but when I do, it says “You have requested an outdated version of PayPal. This error often results from the use of bookmarks.” on the PayPal checkout page.

Could you please try clearing your browser cache and then testing again?

Also, have you tried getting the URL from the page source (“View Source”) instead of copying it from the output that’s displayed on the page?