Managing payment mail buttons beyond page 1

Well, not all at the same time, anyway.

The problem is that after you get so many buttons, they run off to the next page, and maybe to the next and the next. But there’s no link to the next page, so you can’t scroll through all your buttons, only the first hundred or so.

You can keep a spreadsheet on exactly what you put in the text and attachments for each button, so you can still use them. But hopefully you didn’t make any mistakes or change your mind about the contents or the prices, because you can’t access them to edit them.

Or can you?

You can.

First, you need that spreadsheet so you know what’s in every button. I put the following information in my spreadsheet:

• Type (Pay-to-View or Payment Request)
• Subject
• Payment Amount
• Description
• Body
• Attachments
• button url

If you look at the urls of a number of buttons on your spreadsheet. you will see a lot of random letters and numbers toward the end, but you will also see “mailId=XXXXX”. Make a note of a mailId number, then go to your Payment Mail Button Page.

Click the “Edit” link on any Payment Mail button, and a long, complicated url comes up. Copy that and paste it into your spreadsheet, someplace off to the side or on another page. Find the mailID in it, substitute the one you want to edit for the one in that link, paste into your address bar and go!

That’s all there is to it.

If you didn’t realize until it was too late and the buttons are already off the page, you can right-click on a button and view its properties to get that mailID back from it.

While you’re at it, click the link to create a new button, then either bookmark that link or put a button for it on your browser toolbar. You’ll never have to wait for it to load again.