PayPal Integration
September 11th, 2009 , Mick GriffinGetResponse has launched PayPal integration! Now you can automatically add new customers to your email campaign and start building relationships right away! All you need to do is to follow these simple steps.
1) Go to the Contact Settings section of a campaign you’d like to integrate with your PayPal account. Make sure that the email address in the Email Notification section is correct and the Notifications setting for email subscriptions is turned on.
After that, please log into your PayPal account and click Profile-> Add or Remove Email link.
Next click the ‘Add’ button and, in the next step, enter the name of your campaign, followed by paypal@getresponse.com as a new email address. Click the ‘Save’ button.
Every email address you add to the PayPal account needs to be verified, so PayPal will automatically send each new customer a special message containing a confirmation link. GetResponse will forward his message to the email address you provided in your Settings (Email Notifications Address).
Finally, please check your email and click the confirmation link. If you are asked for your PayPal password, enter it and click ‘Confirm’.
Success! The new email address has been added to your PayPal account. Now, in order to integrate the ‘Buy Now’ button into your GetResponse campaign, simply choose the Plain Text email address option in the Merchant ID section and select the proper address form the drop-down menu.
That’s it! Anyone who buys your product by clicking the button as set up above will be automatically added to your campaign! What an easy way to grow your list and jumpstart your follow-up sales campaigns!
September 21st, 2009 at 2:55 pm
Are customers added to the campaign immediately after clicking the order button whether they complete the order or not? Or are they added only after a transaction has been completed?
If it’s added immediately, this is a problem, because people who hit the order button, but back out before completing the order, will now receive an email designed for customers only giving them access to the product without paying for it.
These customer emails typically provide the product access information, specifically true for those selling downloadable products (software and ebooks).
Also, to clarify, do we need to add the “+” between the campaign name and paypal@getresponse.com? The instructions didn’t say “..by including a + between the campaign and paypal@getresponse.com” but the example showed the plus sign. Please confirm.
David
September 23rd, 2009 at 4:42 am
Not sure if they are added until they complete checkout. But, they should only get access to your product after successful checkout by the confirmation page details in the code.
Yes, you do need to add the “+” between the campaign name and the paypal inclusion.
Campaign name…”upsell”
Example:
upsell+paypal@getresponse.com
Happy selling!
Gabe
September 28th, 2009 at 6:59 pm
Hi ,
Do you know if getresponse can also integrate paypal subscriptions (ie : paypal recurring payments ) ?
Thanks,
Joseph
December 11th, 2009 at 9:29 am
“Now, in order to integrate the ‘Buy Now’ button into your GetResponse campaign, simply choose the Plain Text email address option in the Merchant ID section and select the proper address form the drop-down menu.”
Where is the Merchant ID section? Is it in GetResponse or PayPal?
BTW the instructions above are quite confusing to read. These “simple steps” only have “1)” step, but no step 2, 3, etc. And I need to reread it several times to find out whether to do a step in PayPal’s or GetResponse’s UI, and still confused to this moment.