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Weird out your pals and amuse your customers with PayPal's devilishly clever error message . PayPal allows you to send and receive payments in five currencies: U.S. dollars ( USD ), Canadian dollars ( CAD ), pounds sterling ( GBP ), euros ( EUR ), and Japanese yen ( JPY ). If you are creating your own PayPal buttons , you'll need to indicate one of these five currencies in the button's markup. If you make a mistake here, your prospective buyers will be greeted with a confusing error message. However, you might want to turn this error on its ear by working it into the storyline of your web site. If you offer products to Harry Potter fans, for example, you might want to put up a button like this: <form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="burchell@inebraska.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="The Monster Book of Monsters"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="MboM"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="49.00"> <input type="hidden" name="no_note" value="1"> <input type=" hidden " name=" currency_code " value=" sickles "> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/x-click-but23.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> </form> Your customers will see this message:
The useful lesson: if your customers contact you asking you to change your payment preferences to accept CAN , CND , or YEN (none of which are valid), check your button code. |
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