As a volunteer webmaster for several non-profits, including the Red Cross of Central Virginia and Holy Rosary Catholic Church, I am often asked to create donation buttons for an event or fundraiser. This step by steps guide will take you through the basic steps of creating a button that you can insert into your website or email message.
- Log into your personal or business PayPal account
- Click on the “Merchant Services” tab at the top of the page
- In the “Features you can use right now” area, click on the “Create payment buttons for your website” box.
- Open the “Create PayPal payment button” page and complete the first of three steps outlined to create the button:
- Step 1:Choose a button type and enter your payment details
- Donation Button Process:
- Enter the organization or service name
- Customize the text or appearance
- Choose a button type, i.e. Use smaller button or display credit card logos.
- Select a contribution amount and merchant account ID
- Donors can enter their own information or you can provide a fixed amount for them to donate
- Donors can enter their own information or you can provide a fixed amount for them to donate
- Donation Button Process:
- Step 2:Save your buttons (optional)
- Save the button at PayPal if you plan to make a similar button in the future
- Step 3:Customize advanced features (optional)
- You may want to allow your donors to include a special message or provide their shipping address here.
- You can also take them to a different web page after they make their donation
- Step 1:Choose a button type and enter your payment details
- Click the “Create Button” icon.
- Follow the final three steps to copy the code for insertion in an email or web page
- Click Select Code to select all the button code.
- Copy the code (CTRL+C for Windows, CMD+C for Mac — or right-click and choose Copy).
- Paste the code into your own website or email (CTRL+V for Windows, CMD+V for Mac — or right-click and choose Paste).
- To paste the code into a web page…
- Open your website editor
- Log into the admin section of your website
- Navigate to the page you want to edit
- View the “source” code of the page
- Scroll down to the section you want the button to appear and paste the code
- View the page to see if it displays appropriately and save!
If you would like a brief personalized training session on creating a donation button for you own website contact me!
Really Helpful post , I am looking to create donate button for my blog , But not able to get exact steps how to implement , Thanx for sharing
Glad this was helpful Charle! Thanks for the feedback.
Thanks for sharing..
Glad it was helpful!
I am trying to put one on my blog but I have to update to a business account. I don’t know what type of account to choose for a blog.
Hi Zada, to make PayPal work on your blog you will need to purchase and host your blog on a private web server. WordPress provides a guided transfer process for a fee: http://en.support.wordpress.com/guided-transfer/. They also have do it yourself articles: http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog
I can’t see donation button option anywhere…please help..
Follow the directions and you’ll see it!
I can’t see “Features you can use right now” area in “Merchant Services” tab…
Contact me via email and I’ll see if I can help you! brian (at) loebigink.com
Hey Brian..thanks for sharing..
very detailed and Screenshots really help to figure out process..
I have a problem in the process…
In Step 4..(A)
i can’t see “Donations” option in Drop Down list..
All i can see is..
-Shopping Cart
-Buy Now
-Gift vouchers
-Subscriptions…
i have a business account in paypal…and i’m trying to Add Donate Button for our church website…
I’ll be really glad if you can help me out…
Thanks
Hi Christopher, I double checked to see if PayPal had changed the setup process and the steps I have here still work. I’ll send you a screenshot of what I have via email to see if it is different from what you are seeing.
Hey please give the new steps of creating paypal donation button