[Michlib-l] Donation Button Compilation

[Sharon Crotser-Toy]

Good Friday afternoon!

At long last I've finally accomplished my goal, to add a "donate" button to
our website. Many thanks to all of you who sent me your suggestions. They
were very much appreciated!

If I'd known it was this easy I wouldn't have put it off for a month!

The compiled responses are below:

Greetings, one and all!

Adding a donate button to our website has been on my "to do" list for a
very long time. Preliminary research looks quite daunting. If you've added
that option to your website, either with- or without Paypal, I'd love to
hear more about the process. What's been your experience with it, also? Has
it proven to be helpful?

Thanks so much for any time you can spare.
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We do have a paypal donate button the site.  Getting it up onto the site
wasn't a problem, and I will say the paypal was set up before I got here.
But I do have some experience with paypal and it isn't too bad.  We do have
two recurring payments each month that bring in about $10.00 a month.  Not
huge, but at least it is something.
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Sharon,

There is a short video with instructions on the PayPal website. You can get
cut and paste code to insert on your site by following the directions below
the video, here.
<https://www.paypal.com/us/smarthelp/article/how-do-i-add-a-paypal-payment-button-to-my-website-faq3629>

I hope that helps.
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Hi Sharon,

I did this for our website a couple months ago using PayPal. It was
actually quite simple. You create a business account, and they basically
walk you through steps to create a donate button, where you can copy the
code you need for your website (we use Wordpress for our site and it was
easily compatible). It's very user friendly, and when I did have an issue--
which turned out to be an extra space in the embed code-- I was able to
call them and they walked me through the resolution.

However, I can tell you that for us, we haven't got much traction with it--
just one donation so far. However, that is definitely a byproduct of our
particular community and it might work well in yours. It doesn't cost
anything to set up, and PayPal takes like 2% off the top of all donations
for using their button. It's not bad.

That's about all the information I have, but the way I learned was simply
to do some Googling then just go for it!
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I'm not sure if it's exactly what you're looking for, but Troy Public
Library has an online donation system for their endowment fund. It might be
worth contacting them to see if they can give you any pointers.
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Hi Sharon,

I did on our web page this last fall. We use Square, so most of the
"creating" was done there. It generated a link for me to use. I just found
a "Donate" button that I liked, put it on the page and pasted in the link
that Square had generated for me. So far, no one has used the link to
donate any money. :(  But I'm hopeful!

Thanks again, everyone!
-Sharon
-- 
Sharon Crotser-Toy
Director
*Watervliet District Library*
333 N. Main Street
Watervliet, MI 49098
269-463-6382

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