We can assist Chapters in setting up PayPal donations on their web site.

Please note: This option is not available for Community Leader web sites.

Topics:
Opening a PayPal Account
Creating Inline Donation Buttons on a Page
Modifying the Donate Button in your Site’s Sidebar to Work with PayPal
Advanced Options

Opening a PayPal Account

Before you get started, you must have a PayPal account. For steps on how to open an account, click here.

Once you have your account set up you can add PayPal donation buttons to your text on a page and/or link the PayPal donation button located in the right column of your website. We’ll show you how to do both–see below.

If you need assistance with PayPal please reach out by email.

Please DO NOT send PayPal username or password information to us by email.

Creating Inline Donation Buttons on a Page

On your website’s Giving page you will see a PayPal donation button already embedded in the text. We can use this button as an example.

  1. The first step is to get the required code from PayPal. You will be creating what’s called a Hosted PayPal Button. The steps to do this can be found here. Be sure to select Use your own button image and to select the code provided in the Email tab.
  2. Copy the provided code from the Email tab. You can now add it to the Giving page.
  3. In your website’s admin, edit the Giving page.
  4. Click the PayPal button image.
  5. Click the Edit Image icon. The Edit Image dialogue box opens.
  6. In the Link URL section, paste the code copied in Step 2.
  7. Click Update.
  8. Click Update again to save the page.

Modifying the Donate Button in your Site’s Sidebar to Work with PayPal

The Make a Donation widget appears on most of the pages in your web site.

  1. The first step is to get the required code from PayPal. You will be creating what’s called a Hosted PayPal Button. The steps to do this can be found here. Be sure to select Use your own button image and to select the code provided in the Email tab.
  2. Copy the provided code from the Email tab. You can now add this code to the Make a Donation widget.
  3. To modify this widget, in your web site’s administration section click Appearance > Widgets.
  4. The Make a Donation widget appears in the following sections – Page Sidebar, Staff Sidebar and Contact sidebar.  Be sure to expand all the collapsible sections listed on the right hand side of the page to ensure that you modify all occurrences of the widget.
  5. Expand the Make a Donation widget. Look for the following snippet of code –
    <a href=”https://maddchapters.ca/senb/paypal-example-page/” target=”_blank”>
  6. Replace the URL with the code copied in Step 2, for example –
    <a href=”https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=XXXXXXX” target=”_blank”>
  7. Click Save.
  8. Click Close.

Advanced Options

If you need advanced options for PayPal such as text fields and drop-down menus, please see Advanced PayPal Options.