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Receiving Donations Online

Posted on: December 14th, 2011 by Ryan Russell

As we work with many non-profits, we get asked this question quite regularly: “How can we receive donations online?”

After you have received your 501c3 status, these are the steps:

Step 1
Open a bank account
* Most any bank has electronic services available.

Step 2 
Open a Paypal merchant account

Step 3
Connect Paypal with your bank account
Here is PayPal’s very helpful FAQ

Step 4
Take the HTML code from Paypal, insert via HTML editor onto one your your website’s pages

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Step 4w

Create a Wufoo account.
Make the world’s easiest donation form.
Embed the code into your site follow instructions…

This is just one simple way of doing taking in donations online. We hope this helps, but feel free to post your questions in the comment section of this blog.

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