PayPal is the online bank lah kira…this is where you do transaction virtually. Of course there are other payment methods, but nothing comes near Paypal in terms of usage, acceptance etc. They support Visa, Mastercard credit, debit card holders. But don’t worry, you don’t have to own a credit,debit card to open a Paypal account. But having one will be a great advantage when the real-world transaction takes place. Especially when you want to cashout the PayPal money into your card.
Anyway, if you have paypal, you can use it to erm, well, apart from shopping via Ebay, you can use it to get some donations to support your blogging activities or websites. It will surely be handy when paying-server-every-year trouble comes!
We will look at how you can add the “donation button” into your website. I wanted to write it my own, but then hey, why wanna waste time when you can copy and paste! Hahaha, credits to LiewCF for the great and simple step below.
Step-by-step to create PayPal donation button
- Login your PayPal account, goto “Merchant Tools”. Scroll down to “PayPal Website Payments Standard“.
- There is a link named “Donations“. Click it to open donation button setup page.
- There looks many fields need to fill in… Don’t worry, you can ignore those “(optional)” field.
- If you want to specific a donation amount, fill in the “Donation Amount:“.Note: Once specified the amount, the donator cannot donate more than or less than the specified valune.
- Under “Choose a donation button to put on your website (optional)“, you can choose a donation button or use your own image.
- For “Security Settings“, I recommend to select “Yes” to encrypt your payment button. It will protect your paypal email address.
- Then, click the “Create Button Now” button at the bottom of the page to create your PayPal donation button.
- You will given a HTML code for the donation button. Copy it and paste into your website. Done.
PayPal Donations makes it easy for you to collect secure donations from your website. After inserting simple HTML code, you can collect your donations via secure PayPal payment pages.
Next time we shall look at how to cashout, or transfer the money into our banks!
