jennifermontes

Many artists and makers rely on donations to make ends meet and use PayPal’s “Donate” button to make collecting money from their fans as painless as possible. However, according to PayPal’s Terms of Service, the “Donate” button is only intended for fundraising. In their own words:
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If you are not raising money for a cause, please choose another option. Nonprofits must verify their status to withdraw donations they receive. Users that are not verified nonprofits must demonstrate how their donations will be used, once they raise more than $10,000.
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What’s more, many bloggers have had their PayPal accounts suspended before reaching the $10,000 limit simply because they were using the “Donate” button in a way that PayPal did not intend.
To overcome these limitations, artists have switched over to what is generally called a “Buy me a beer” button: a PayPal “Buy Now” button with a fixed dollar amount, usually between $2 and $10, so that fans can still give money without expecting something tangible in return.
The “Buy me a beer” button has taken on many different forms depending on the personality of the person receiving the money (“Buy me a coffee”, “Buy me subway fare”, etc.) and generally works very well, but it has a severe limitation: only fixed dollar amounts are supported. Many people add a drop-down list of various dollar amounts in order to give fans some flexibility, but they are still values that were prescribed by the author. To give fans ultimate flexibility, and make sure makers don’t miss out on people wanting to support their work with big bucks, the Support My Work widget was born.

Support My Work

A WordPress widget that displays a PayPal "Buy Now" and lets users specify the amount that they wish to pay.

misiek303

Plugin allows you to generate paypal buttons with IPN verification. 
Buttons can be added to the posts or pages using syntax string to content body. 
Also all buttons are available as widgets. Configuration of button allow to use IPN verification. 
Paypal transaction are viewable in plugin page from menu admin.
Usage:
Syntax [mp:id=button_id]
UPGRADES or BUG FIXING:
FOR v1.1.20090324
<ul>
<li>added view cart button</li>
<li>change a way to store buttons type</li>
</ul>
FOR v1.1.20090321
<ul>
<li>added currency code to generate buttons</li>
</ul>
To update the plugin, overwrite your old plugin files with new version, then deactive and active plugin again. 
You won’t lose your existing buttons. This will add another table which keeps all additional options, in this case currency code. 
Currency Code filed will show up on Generate PayPal Buttons page. 
Please let me know with any issues. Goodlock!

Misiek Paypal

Plugin allows you to generate paypal buttons with IPN verification.

Support My Work vs Misiek Paypal