BMCreateButton API Operation (NVP)

API

Last updated: Aug 15th, 7:12am

Creates a PayPal Payments Standard button.

Important:

The Button Manager API is deprecated. For new integrations, see the associated topic.

Button	See
Buy Now	PayPal Checkout Overview
Add to Cart	Solution Providers
Donate	Create a Donate button
Automatic Billing Subscribe	Subscriptions Overview

You can create either a button that is hosted on PayPal or a non-hosted button.

BMCreateButton request

The request parameters specify the characteristics of your button, which include associated menu items related to the button. You can specify up to five menu items, each of which can include up to 10 possible selections.

BMCreateButton request parameters

Field	Description
`METHOD`	(Required) `BMCreateButton`
`BUTTONCODE`	(Optional) The kind of button code to create. Value is: `HOSTED`. A secure button stored on PayPal. The default for all buttons except the View Cart, Unsubscribe, and Pay Now buttons `ENCRYPTED`. An encrypted button, not stored on PayPal. The default for View Cart button. `CLEARTEXT`. An unencrypted button, not stored on PayPal. The default for Unsubscribe button. `TOKEN`. A secure button, not stored on PayPal, used only to initiate the Hosted Solution checkout flow. The default for Pay Now button. Since version 65.1
`BUTTONTYPE`	(Required) The kind of button you want to create. Value is: `BUYNOW`. Buy Now button `CART`. Add to Cart button `SUBSCRIBE`. Subscribe button `DONATE`. Donate button `UNSUBSCRIBE`. Unsubscribe button `VIEWCART`. View Cart button `AUTOBILLING`. Automatic Billing button. Since version 63.0. `PAYMENT`. Pay Now button. Since version 65.1. Note: Do not specify `BUYNOW` if `BUTTONCODE=TOKEN`; specify `PAYMENT` instead. Do not specify `PAYMENT` if `BUTTONCODE=HOSTED`. Note: `BMCreateButton` does not create a button to upload the contents of a third-party shopping cart. To upload a cart's contents, use the cart upload command.
`BUTTONSUBTYPE`	(Optional) The use of button you want to create. Value is: `PRODUCTS`. The button is used to purchase products. The default for Buy Now and Add to Cart buttons. `SERVICES`. button is used to purchase services
`L_BUTTONVARn`	(Optional) HTML standard button variables

Option details fields

Field	Description
`OPTIONnNAME`	(Optional) The menu name. It is one or more variables, in which `n` is a digit between 0 and 4, inclusive, for hosted buttons; otherwise, it is a digit between 0 and 9, inclusive.

Field

Description

OPTIONnNAME

(Optional) The menu name.

It is one or more variables, in which n is a digit between 0 and 4, inclusive, for hosted buttons; otherwise, it is a digit between 0 and 9, inclusive.

Option selection details fields

L_OPTIONnSELECTx

(Optional) The menu item name.

A list of variables for each OPTIONnNAME, where xis a digit between 0 and 9, inclusive.

L_OPTION0PRICEx

(Optional) The price associated with the first menu item.

List of variables for each OPTION0NAME, where x is a digit between 0 and 9, inclusive.

Note: If you specify a price, you cannot set a button variable to amount.

OPTIONnTYPE

Button language options

The button language must be compatible with the country identified by the country code.

Country	Button language options
All countries not identified below	`en`. English. The default.
Austria	`de`. German. The default. `en`. English.
Belgium	`en`. English. The default. `nl`. Dutch. `fr`. French.
Canada	`en`. English. The default. `fr`. French.
China (worldwide)	`en`. English. The default. `zh`. Chinese.
France	`fr`. French. The default. `en`. English.
Germany	`de`. German. The default. `en`. English.
Hong Kong	`zh`. Chinese. The default. `en`. English.
Italy	`it`. Italian. The default. `en`. English.
Japan	`ja`. Japanese. The default. `en`. English.
Mexico	`es`. Spanish. The default. `en`. English.
Netherlands	`nl`. Dutch. The default. `en`. English.
Poland	`pl`. Polish. The default. `en`. English.
Spain	`es`. Spanish. The default. `en`. English.
Switzerland	`de`. German. The default. `fr`. French. `en`. English.
United States	`en`. English. The default. `fr`. French. `es`. Spanish. `zh`. Chinese.

BMCreateButton response

The response contains an ID if the button is hosted on PayPal and code for HTML in a website and for a link in email.

BMCreateButton response fields

Field	Description
`WEBSITECODE`	HTML code for web pages
`EMAILLINK`	Code for email links, links in other documents that support external links, and links to the Hosted Solution checkout flow.
`HOSTEDBUTTONID`	ID of a PayPal-hosted button or a Hosted Solution token.

BMCreateButton errors

Error code	Short and long messages	User action
10001	Internal Error Internal Error
11923	Invalid Argument The button image value specified is invalid.
11924	Invalid Argument The button image URL specified is invalid.
11925	Invalid Argument The button type specified is invalid.
11926	Invalid Data One of the parameters specified using ButtonVar is invalid.
11927	Invalid Argument The Buy Now button text specified is invalid.
11928	Invalid Argument The email or merchant ID specified is invalid.
11929	Invalid Data A cart button must have an item name and amount specified.
11931	Invalid Argument The subscription button text specified is invalid.
11932	Invalid Data You must specify a corresponding number of entries for option names and selections.
11933	Invalid Data You cannot skip index numbers for option selections. Option selections must be specified sequentially.
11934	Invalid Data You must specify the same number of entries for option prices and selections.
11936	Invalid Data You cannot specify both an item price and prices for individual selections within an option.
11937	Invalid Argument A text box name specified is invalid. Text box names must not exceed 64 characters.
11938	Invalid Argument The button code value specified is invalid.
11940	Invalid Argument An option name specified is invalid. Option names must not exceed 64 characters.
11941	Invalid Argument An option selection value specified is invalid. Option selection values must not exceed 64 characters.
11942	Invalid Argument An option price value specified is invalid. Make sure any punctuation marks are in the correct places.
11943	Invalid Argument The button country value specified is invalid.
11945	Invalid Data The button country and language code combination specified is invalid.
11947	Invalid Argument The tax rate specified is invalid. Make sure any punctuation marks are in the correct places and value specified is in the range 0.0 to 100.
11948	Invalid Argument The amount specified is invalid. Make sure any punctuation marks are in the correct places.
12210	Invalid Argument The currency code value specified is invalid.
13117	Invalid Argument Subtotal amount is not valid.
13118	Invalid Argument Tax amount is not valid.
13119	Invalid Argument Handling amount is not valid.
13120	Invalid Argument Shipping amount is not valid.