Adding Buy Now button in e-mail/HTML newsletter

[admin-GF]

Hi,



I was thinking of adding a buy now button in a newsletter/e-mail that I send to customers. When I checked the buttons that I can create, the only buttons available were "E-Junkie Shopping Cart" buttons and those won't work from an e-mail.



I could go directly into Paypal and create "Buy Now" buttons (not sure if that would work) ,but I would like the process to go through e-junkie if possible.



Is this possible as a link through e-mail? or is there a way to create a manual link?

[E-junkie_Guru]

E-junkie cart buttons should work fine in an email; they would display the cart in a separate browser window/tab. If you would still prefer to use Buy Now buttons, which bypass the cart and take buyers directly to instant checkout for just one item at a time, but you are finding the tab for Buy Now button codes is greyed-out, that indicates you have configured the product using Variants/Variations or "Let buyer edit price", which cannot work with Buy Now buttons.

[admin-GF]

yes, I use variants for my products.



I believe the newsletter service I use doesn't allow some of the HTML codes that E-Junkie is using for the Add To Cart button, so this may be a limitation on the newsletter side.



Not sure if I can workaround that.

[E-junkie_Guru]

This help page explains how to extract a button's href= URL from the full button code we provide in Seller Admin, so you can use that URL in your newsletter either as-is or with whatever link-maker method your newsletter provider supports:

http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/tips.button-code.url.htm

[E-junkie_Guru]

Oh, and if you're using Variants, you would need to represent every possible Variant combination with separate buttons, rather than the menus provided in our standard button code; it's a bit complicated, but this tutorial explains how:

http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/tips.variants.button-tutorial.htm



Frankly, the easier and probably better approach to this would have your newsletter just provide a link to your online store page or product page where you have placed the cart buttons, rather than trying to put purchase buttons directly in the newsletter itself.



If you don't have your own Web site or don't wish to paste our buttons into your site, you have the option of adding product listings to your own E-junkie Shop page listing only your own products at a specific URL (http://www.e-junkie.com/206 for example), so your newsletter could provide a link to your Shop or to a specific product's listing there. This help page explains more about posting product listings to your optional E-junkie Shop:

http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/help.promote.htm