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. ----------------------------------------------------- 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. ------------------------------------------------------ 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. ----------------------------------------------------- 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! ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Connects People, Inspires Ideas, Transforms Lives