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C#: PayPal Donate Button

If you have a PayPal account and would like to add a donate button to your application you can use the following code.

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private void btnDonate_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
    string url = "";
 
    string business     = "my@paypalemail.com";  // your paypal email
    string description  = "Donation";            // '%20' represents a space. remember HTML!
    string country      = "AU";                  // AU, US, etc.
    string currency     = "AUD";                 // AUD, USD, etc.
 
    url += "https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" +
        "?cmd=" + "_donations" +
        "&business=" + business +
        "&lc=" + country +
        "&item_name=" + description +
        "&currency_code=" + currency +
        "&bn=" + "PP%2dDonationsBF";
 
    System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(url);
}

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8 Responses to “C#: PayPal Donate Button”

  1. dethknite // September 3rd, 2009 at 6:33 am

    I attempted to use this code but am unable to get it to work. I have tried:
    https://www.paypal.com/en/cgi-bin/webscr” instead, still no luck.

    Just loads up the paypal login screen.

    Help…

  2. Beno Gorancic // September 4th, 2009 at 11:19 am

    Can you show me what your url looks like? Feel free to use the contact page if you don’t want to post it here.

    I have asked another person to test it and also tested it myself just now and I can confirm that it works for me.

  3. Beno Gorancic // September 11th, 2009 at 5:07 pm

    Resolved dethknite’s issue. There was a typo in the URL.

  4. Asimplepersonality // December 17th, 2009 at 10:03 pm

    Thanks man!

    Really useful.

  5. Andyr // August 6th, 2010 at 11:25 pm

    Thanks that worked for me.

  6. profiler26 // September 23rd, 2011 at 11:57 pm

    When i add the button it wont direct me to anything, as far as i ca see i did not forget anything. is it changed maybe for the 2010 version?

  7. Beno Gorancic // September 29th, 2011 at 11:13 am

    It should work. I have just tested it out in 2010 by copy/pasting the above code.

  8. Mitja // April 29th, 2013 at 8:58 pm

    Have you been thinking how to obfuscate this code? If someone opens your app in decompiler, code can be changed (email) and donation can be sent to someone else.

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