There are many Paypal modules or bots available. Why choose HyBing's Easy Paypal? 

Easy Paypal is a Joomla plugin, with one important feature. You can set the Paypal parameters using default Joomla bot configuration screen, as well as, setting the parameters in the content. 

You can set the parameters for email address, dollar amount, currency, itemname, itemnumber, quantity, handling, shipping, shipping2, showquantity, no_note, cn, button, return, cancel_return or a combination of the above.

Easy Paypal supports shopping cart too. To create Paypal buttons to add to shopping cart, please set cmd_type to shopping. To create Paypal button to view shopping cart, please set cmd_type to viewcart.

In addition, Easy Paypal supports many subscription related parameters: (cmd_type=subscription), Trial 1 amount, period, and period unit, (a1, p1, t1), Trial 2 amount , period, and period unit (a2, p2, t2),  Regular amount, period, and period unit (a3, pt3, t3), Recurring payments (src), Reattempt on failure (sra) and Recurring Times (srt). Click here for Paypal variables.

Easy Paypal also support multiple Paypal buttons on the same page with different parameters.

Each purchase is valid for one domain. Depending on your installation of Joomla, you can choose either one of the following two options.

Version, v2.1.7 is now released for Joomla 1.0x and version 2.8 for Joomla 1.5x

 

The key new features in Easy Paypal are:

	Add shopping cart support, with shopping cart images. We added a new parameter cmd_type to cover regular payment, subscription payment, shopping cart payment, view shopping cart and paypal Seal actions. Possible values of cmd_type are regular, subscription, shopping, seal and viewcart.   Existing "subscription" parameter is now retired by cmd_type parameter.
	We add two new currencies, Israeli Shekel and Mexican Peso.
	We fix a minor bug in tax calculation when Easy Paypal is configured to allow end user to change the quantity.
	We add "Sold Out" button image. You can also set the paramter dynamically by setting the button to bot_easypaypal_soldout.png
	Two new parameters are added. You can specify return URL and cancellation URL, using the bot configuration screen or setting them dynamically. To set them dynamically, you need to use return and cancel_return parameters, default is your home page.
	We support user notes. Two new parameters are introduced. No_note, which could be 1 or 0. When No_note is set to 0, Paypal will allow user to input notes for the order. If you want to have a customized note header, you can specify th cn parameter, such as cn=Please enter your note;
	Easy Paypal now has two release tracks, one for Joomla 1.0x and one for Joomla 1.5x.
	We support a new parameter: shipping2, which is for additional shipping.
	We support two more parameters: handling and shipping charges.
	We allow users to specify the quantity. You can als display the quantity input box by setting showquantity to Yes.
	Starting version 1.5, you no longer need to turn off Joomla default Email Cloaking bot when using Easy Paypal. We use {emailcloak=off} to achieve this.
	Support for Paypal Subscription and Recurring Payments.
	Additional parameters are supported: subscription (Yes or No), Trial 1 amount, period, and period unit, (a1, p1, t1), Trial 2 amount , period, and period unit (a2, p2, t2),  Regular amount, period, and period unit (a3, pt3, t3), Recurring payments (src), Reattempt on failure (sra) and Recurring Times (srt).
	Supporting Paypal Verified Logo and Paypal Verified URL. To display Paypal Verified Logo, use button=http://www.paypal.com/images/verification_seal.gif as your parameer.
	More Paypal Button images.
	Supports tax calculation. You can specify the tax rate at the bot configuration screen or specify tax rate as part of the content bot parameters.

To enable this bot:

	Install the bot, publish it and disable any email scrambler bot, such as Email Cloaking bot.
	You can config the default bot behaviors using Joomla bot configuration screen.
	when placing the bot in the content, you can use {easypaypal} for default configuration  or use {easypaypal parameter1=value1,parameter2=value2,parameter3=value3....} format for each content.
	Parameters are seperated by commma, without any space in between. When setting email address in parameter, please remove any HTML tags around the email address added by Joomla.
	Accpeted parameters are address, itemname, itemnumber, currency, amount,button and tax.

Using default Easy Paypal bot settings.

{easypaypal}

Using following dynamic content configuration:

{easypaypal itemname=demo,itemnumber=100,quantity=3,amount=100,tax=0.5, currency=AUD,button=http://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/x-click-but5.gif,cancel_return=http://www.yahoo.com}

Using following dynamic content configuration example to allow buyer input notes:

{easypaypal amount=100,tax=0.5,shipping=2,handling=5, no_note=0, cn=Enter Your Note}

Using following dynamic content configuration example to allow user to input quantity:

{easypaypal amount=38,tax=0.123456,showquantity=Yes,quantity=2,shipping=1,shipping2=2} 

Using following dynamic content configuration example for subscription based payments:

{easypaypal cmd_type=subscription,a1=2,p1=2,t1=D,a2=1,p2=1,t2=W,a3=2,p3=2,t3=Y, src=1,sra=1, srt=,button=http://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/x-click-but20.gif}

Note: subscription=Yes is now replaced by cmd_type=subscription. 

Using following dynamic content configuration example for shopping cart purchases:

{easypaypal cmd_type=shopping,amount=100,button=http://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_cart_LG.gif}

Using following dynamic content configuration example for shopping cart purchases:

{easypaypal itemname=demo,itemnumber=2, cmd_type=shopping, amount=150, tax=0.5,shipping=2,handling=5,button=http://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_cart_LG.gif}

View shopping cart:

{easypaypal cmd_type=viewcart,button=http://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/view_cart_new.gif}

Using Easy Paypal for Verified Logo:

{easypaypal cmd_type=seal,button=http://www.paypal.com/images/verification_seal.gif}