Take payment for a password-of-the-day

[mdecastro]

We have a website that currently displays all of it's (fast changing) information for free and we wish to run an experiment where we charge a fixed fee for a single day's use... if the experiment has a promising result we may go to town with all sorts of complex subscription options but just for this test we're looking for a cheap and cheerful mechanism. We thought we could just have a single password of the day (with no username) for the whole site. Yes, this could be shared between users but we're not worried about this just for the experiment. So what we want is a "buy now" button which somehow results in the user being given the password of the day... either on the website or via an email. 

I dare say Paypal might have a ready made solution for our requirements already but I have no idea what to look up or what documents to read. I am not very expert on server side stuff like nodejs so the less of that the better.

Any ideas/advice welcome.

[MTS_Chiranjeevi]

Good day @mdecastro,

Thank you for posting to the PayPal community.

We recommend merchants to integrate our latest PayPal Checkout (Smart button) product.

Guide link : https://developer.paypal.com/docs/checkout/standard/ 

Please follow the below steps via your PayPal account. 

Login PayPal.com >> click on "settings icon" >> go to "Account settings" >> Website payments >> PayPal buttons >> select "Smart Buttons" button type >> fill all the required details >> copy & paste the button code on your website with the help of your website developer. 

(Or)

Login PayPal.com >> go to direct link "https://www.paypal.com/buttons/" >> follow the above steps

I would suggest to please contact your website developer or the support of your third party platform(eCommerce) who can above help you add the above Smart button code on your website. 

If your still facing any issues, please create a MTS ticket via -  https://www.paypal-support.com/s/?language=en_US with the detail information and error details.

Sincerely,

Chiranjeevi

PayPal/Braintree MTS

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[mdecastro]

Hi, thanks for that answer - but you have not given any clue as to what kind of server side code might need to be run (if any) in this case. My current web hosting package can not do nodejs or flask (I would need to upgrade for that). Can you think of a solution for my use case that avoids node/flask?