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crowethm · ‎Feb-08-2018

I have set up a few "donate" buttons for my non profit organization's website. when I first embed the buttons they work and take me to a PayPal page where suggested donation amounts are given. But then other times when I or others click on the same button on my site they go to a PayPal page with no suggested donation levels but a blank space to type in your own donation amount.

I'd much prefer the former approach to the latter, and to have the ability to set the suggested levels, but I cannot find the place to make sure certain amounts are suggested, nor to set what those amounts might be.

Help?

Tom

Snow-Cat · ‎Feb-12-2018

The standard Donation button that can be created online using the button creator can only create a button that has a fixed amount (example: $5.00) or a button whereas you enter an amount on the PayPal Checkout Screens. Not really sure what you're seeing. It's possible to setup a Donation button with radio buttons whereas the donor selects an amount on the web page but that takes a little manual coding - something you can't create using the online button creator.

AMARescue · ‎Feb-18-2018

I have the same options on our paypal buttons. I don't mind the suggested amounts, (in fact I do like them) But our lowest amount is $75 and that is too much for a small non-profit. I would like to change the amounts starting at $20

Here is a picture of what I am talking about

Snow-Cat · ‎Feb-18-2018

As you cannot change the PayPal screens, you can do what you have in mind with your item button code. The catch is, you have to create the code manually as the online button creator for Donations has it's limits. On option would be to use Radio Buttons for selecting the Amount - below is a basic example of how this can be done.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">

<head>

<title>Radio Button Donation Example</title>

<!-- START META TAG SECTION -->
<meta name="Description" content="">
<meta name="KeyWords" content="">
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<!-- END META TAG SECTION -->

</head>

<body>

Widget Fund

<br><br>

<!-- Start of Form -->
<form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_donations">
<!-- Replace "business" value with your PayPal Email Address or your Merchant Account ID -->
<input type="hidden" name="business" value="your PayPal Email Address or your Merchant Account ID">
<input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Widget Fund">
<input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="WF-1001">
<input type="hidden" name="no_shipping" value="1">
<input type="hidden" name="no_note" value="1">
<input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD">
<input type="hidden" name="tax" value="0.00">
<input type="hidden" name="lc" value="US">
<input type="hidden" name="bn" value="PP-DonationsBF">


Select Amount:
<br>
<input type="radio" name="amount" value="20.00"> $20.00
<br>
<input type="radio" name="amount" value="25.00"> $25.00
<br>
<input type="radio" name="amount" value="30.00"> $30.00
<br>
<input type="radio" name="amount" value="35.00"> $35.00
<br>
<input type="radio" name="amount" value="40.00"> $40.00
<br>
<input type="radio" name="amount" value="50.00"> $50.00
<br>
<input type="radio" name="amount" value="0.00"> Other - Enter Desired Amount on PayPal Screen

<br><br>
<input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_donate_LG.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!">
<img alt="" border="0" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1">
</form>
<!-- End of Form -->


</body>
</html>

AMARescue · ‎Feb-18-2018

I really don't see how adding the radio buttons will do anything but really confuse our donors. So they would see the boxes as shown in the picture above with those amounts (these were not added by me but by PayPal in some upgrade they did) and then they would also have the radio buttons to choose an amount from.

Snow-Cat · ‎Feb-18-2018

Did you really test the example ??

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