PayPal Payment Buttons

6 min readUpdated 7 August 2026

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.

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Last updated: 7 August 2026

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