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Learn to use PayPal for one off donations and payments.

Cristina Gruita avatar
Written by Cristina Gruita
Updated this week

Donorfy Forms can accept one-off donations and payments using PayPal.

To take advantage of this you will need a PayPal merchant account for your organisation - note that this is different from a personal PayPal account.

πŸ“ŒNote:

The integration does not support the insertion of transactions from non-Donorfy forms and is only for one-off donations and payments.

You can sign up for a merchant account here.

  1. Once you have your merchant account go to the PayPal Checkout page.

  2. Login into your merchant account.

  3. Click on your profile and select Dashboard. This takes you to the Developer section.

  4. Make sure that Live is selected and click Create App.

  5. Give your app a suitable name, e.g. Donorfy Forms.

  6. Once your app is created you will see the live API credentials form. Click Show under Secret to reveal your client secret.

    The client id and secret need copying into PayPal settings in your Donorfy.

In Donorfy :

  1. Sign in to Donorfy.

  2. Navigate to Settings, click Configuration, select PayPal Settings.

  3. Fill in the client id and secret into the fields provided.

  4. Fill in also the text that will appear in PayPal for donations made via your forms. This text can contain up to 22 letters and numbers.

  5. Click Save Changes.

Using PayPal in Forms

Once you have completed the setup Forms including a Donation Element will automatically offer people the chance to use PayPal for one-off donations. The pay button appears below the fields for a credit card donation.

If you do not want to allow PayPal on particular forms:

  1. Open the Donation Element on the form.

  2. Click on the Processing tab.

  3. Uncheck Allow donation by PayPal from this form.

You can also change the message that displays above the PayPal button:

  1. Click on Processing tab.

  2. Under Other section find Prompt displayed above buttons for ApplePay, PayPal.

  3. Fill in the text you want there.


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