Creating Simple Checkout Buttons with Authorize.Net

• Authorize.Net includes the ability to create very simple Buy Me style buttons.
• These buttons are only tied to a single item and not as versatile when comparing them for instance to what PayPal offer.
• They are however ideal if we simply want to offer a user a limited choice of products to select from (e.g. Internet Vouchers).
• Onother thing to notice is that in the transaction details which we record at the back end there is only the x_catalog_link_id which we have to match up which button was selected.
• This means that we have to ensure that our description of items has to be tha same in a few places in order to prevent confusion on the buyer's side and gain their trust.

• Log into the Authorize.Net dashboard.
• Select Tools → Simple Checkout
• Create a product type button. Take care that the description of the product is the same as that which you specify on the page which will eventually contain the button.
• Then to get the HTML code of this button; edit the appearance of the button and save it.
• See the following snippet of HTML:

• As you can see the button's ID is cf7a04e3-799d-4bb1-a667-e6ed851cf01s.
• This ID will be supplied by Authorize.Net in the submitted transaction details as the value of x_catalog_link_id.

Now that we have the Buy Now buttons we can move over to RADIUSdesk and complete the plumbing.