Accepting payments for non profits organizations

If we’re involved in a nonprofit organization (i.e. charity) and want to receive donations, we can use PayPal to accept the payment online.

PayPal offers great discounts and benefits for charity. Hence we need to create Merchant account in the PayPal system. While creating the account we should select Nonprofit Section under Industry Solutions category.

We need to spend few minutes to understand how this Donate button works.

Currently there are various charities which are using PayPal to receive the donations. 
We can also download a nonprofit guide, which is available on the PayPal site. It’s very handy guide which includes PayPal suggestions and where to start for your charity. 

Now we can begin with How to create a Donation button. Let’s start with step by step.

a) Login to PayPal website

b) Go to Merchant Services and click create a Donate button

c) We need to add organization name, donation ID number

d) We can also customize the appearance of this button by using our button (i.e. as per organization’s website)

e) But now we can start with standard Donation button, which is available on the PayPal
    website.

f) Now we can go ahead and save that button on PayPal website, which is very easy.
   We are saving this button, because we can reuse / modify this button.

g) We can add any special message to this button.

h) We can also thanks to the donor for their donation by sending him to the thanks page.    

i) Now click the Create Button, the button code will appear and we need to embed that button code into charity's web site. This buttons are very easy and quick to create. 

We also need to consider PayPal fees for accepting the donations. 

PayPal offers reduced fees for non-profit organizations, but the organization needs to prove itself as non-profit organization.

Reference -

https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?cmd=_donate-intro-outside