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Business

Posted by Sharif Uddin
Sharif Uddin
611 Points

Paypal

Anyone know how to add code to an existing Paypal button to add extra features like adding interest to the payment and creating a total. So we would have for example £10.00 + 5% = £10.50. What I am after is the ability for the cart to calculate the interest of 5% and add this to the total.

3 Answers

Ricardo Diaz
Ricardo Diaz
30,415 Points
Ricardo Diaz
Ricardo Diaz
30,415 Points

Wouldn't you be able to do those changes on your Paypal account? If I recall I was able to add additional charges by going to the advanced settings when I created the button. You can also just edit the button by going to your buttons.

Sharif Uddin
Sharif Uddin
611 Points
Sharif Uddin
Sharif Uddin
611 Points

Thanks, I'll check this out.

Sharif Uddin
Sharif Uddin
611 Points
Sharif Uddin
Sharif Uddin
611 Points

I have looked on the PayPal site and cannot find any codes relating to what I want. Basically the following should happen.

Customer clicks on Buy Now, they enter the price of their journey and 4.9% will be added to the amount entered. So it will go like this:

Amount: £10.00 + 4.9% = £10.49.

I want this to happen automatically when the client enters the journey price in the payment page. Help?? I need the html or whatever codes that can do this. Please help.