Take a one-off payment straight from a page: a deposit, a booking fee, a single product.
This is not a shop. The PayPal button doesn't use your products, cart, stock or orders, and Limecube keeps no record of payments. To sell properly, use the Shop.
Setting up your button#
- 1In the editor, open Add Elements and choose PayPal button from the Basic group.
- 2In the panel's Connection section, set Environment to Production for real payments (or Sandbox to test).
- 3Paste your Production Client ID from your PayPal Developer dashboard.
Sandbox and Production keys are stored separately, so you can switch between them without re-entering anything.
Transaction settings#
- Internal name: a label to help you tell buttons apart in the editor. Your customers never see it, and it isn't sent to PayPal.
- Price: the amount, with up to two decimal places
- Currency: 24 currencies available
- Redirect after payment: send buyers to a thank-you page, or choose 'No redirect' to show a confirmation message in place
Behaviour#
- Show Pay Later & Venmo (on by default): offers instalments where PayPal supports them
- Accept card payments: adds a Debit or Credit Card button so buyers without a PayPal account can still pay
Appearance#
- Colour: Gold, Blue, Silver, White or Black
- Shape: Rectangle or Pill
- Size: Small, Medium, Large or Full width
- Button label: PayPal, Checkout, Buy Now, Pay with PayPal or Subscribe
- Locale
Testing your button#
- 1Set Environment to Sandbox and paste your Sandbox Client ID.
- 2Publish and pay with a PayPal sandbox test account: no real money moves.
- 3Switch back to Production before going live. A sandbox button looks identical to a real one, so it's easy to leave a live page taking fake payments.
Tips#
- Where payments appear: in your PayPal account, not in Limecube. Limecube has no list of transactions, no notification email, and no way to tell which button a payment came from, so if you run several, give each a different price or use separate PayPal accounts to tell them apart.
- One PayPal account and one currency per page. All PayPal buttons on a page share the settings of the first one. If you need different currencies, put them on different pages.
- You won't see a working button in the editor, and that's a preview. The real button loads on the published page, and PayPal decides which extra options (Pay Later, Venmo) each visitor sees based on their country.
- No button at all on the live page? The Client ID is missing or mistyped, and nothing is shown to visitors when that happens.
- 'Subscribe' only behaves as a subscription if your PayPal account is set up for billing plans; otherwise it's just different wording on a one-off payment.
- Use it for modest, fixed amounts. For anything substantial, or for selling multiple products, the Shop is the right tool.