Counting Clicks on PayPal Buttons

[nigelthomas]

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Hello!

I need to be able to count the number of clicks the paypal button on my sales page gets so I can tell how many drop outs I am getting. Obviously if the customer buys then that's fine, but at the moment there's no way to tell if they go to buy but cancel out before they make the purchase. The problem is PayPal buttons have several hundred characters and a different format to normal links. Is there any way I can use ccount to do this?

Many thanks.

Nigel

[Klemen]

PayPal buttons are normally FORMS not links, but you can create each button as a link (PayPal generates e-mail links but they can be of course used for buttons/website links as well) and those can be counted normally as any other link.

[nigelthomas]

Thank you Klemen.

I will give it a try.

Regards

Nigel

[moonshine]

good post Nigel, i have been trying to figure out how to track my abandoned carts on my site too.