Are you looking to accept donations on
your nonprofit website? Well keep
watching because today I'll show you how
you can quickly add a donations page to
your WordPress website and you can do it
painlessly without hiring a developer.
We'll be using WPForms and with WPForms
it will require one or two addons
either the PayPal or the stripe addon
both addons are included with the pro
and the ultimate license. First thing
you'll want to do is go ahead and head
over to WPForms and sign up for their
ultimate or pro level pricing and once
you do that you can head over to your
account you can go to our downloads area
and download the WPForms plugin itself.
I'll download that to my computer and
then you'll want to log in to your
WordPress dashboard and be in the
backend like this and we need to install
that plug-in so let's head over to our
plugins area, we'll click add new
and from here instead of searching for a
plugin we want to upload our own plugin.
From here you can either click Choose
file and find that location I have it
down here so I'll drag it and drop it up
here and click install now. When I
activate the plugin as well and now we
have an area over here that is WPForms
and once you install and activate it
you'll see that you need to enter and
activate your license key. So we can
click on that or you can go over the
WPForms and under settings. You can get
that license key back over on your
dashboard for WPForms so I'll grab it
right here, right click and copy, head back
over there and I'm going to enter it
and verify the key.
Once we have WPForms set up and
installed let's go over to WPForms,
addons because we want to make sure that
we get the PayPal or the Stripe added.
I'm going to use PayPal for this video
but you can also install the Stripe
addon down here if you're using Stripe.
So we'll click install addon and then
we also need to activate it. In addition
to the PayPal or Stripe addon you also
want to make sure that you have the
conditional logic addon installed so let's
click Install Now and then we'll also
activate that and I'll show you why
that's important in a second. Alright now
that that's taken care of let's go ahead
and head over and click add new give it
a form name and you can scroll down and
we've actually already have a donation
form template that you can start with so
let's go ahead and create a donation
form from here
and what that does is it just brings in
many of the typical and popular fields
that you'll need. The final thing we need
to do is make sure that we set up our
payments and so we'll go to the payments
area here see the PayPal standard we
need to enable that here, add the paypal
email address that you have associated
with your nonprofit, we want to go ahead
and be in production mode you can also
do a test or a sandbox if you're just
testing it out. Here you can select
whether it's product or service or
donations and if people want to cancel
you can send them to a cancelled URL
basically saying I'm sorry that it
didn't work
you know maybe walk them through the
process of donating again. Now that
everything looks good there
we're alright with that, now you can
either have an empty field like this but
a lot of times you probably know this
but when people are donating they never
know what quite how much to donate so
you can actually help them out by giving
them multiple items to choose from so
let's scroll down and look for the
multiple items under payment fields and
let's grab that and drag it up here and
now we need to edit this so let's edit
what it says. Alright now that we've
created that multiple items we don't
like how that looks here so let's go
ahead and clean this up a little I'm
going to change that right here under
the label and let's change it to
something friendlier to say donation
amount and
let them know that this will be $10 this
will be 25 and 50 and that's for the
people who don't necessarily know how
much to add but say you want to give
them the opportunity to enter their own
amount you can click enter amount, keep
that zero and what we're going to do
with that is if somebody clicks on the
enter amount field then we actually want
to show this donation amount that they
can put in. Let's double click on that so
we can edit it and under conditionals we
want to enable the conditional logic the
idea is we want to show this field if
the donation amount is set to
enter amount and that's it. Also want to make
sure that the required is not checked
because they might just choose one of
these others so we don't want to make
that a required field now we can save it
Alright after we adjust those fields let's
go ahead and make sure that the set
under settings that our notifications
are set up correctly. By default it
brings in the admin email from the
website but you can change this to
whatever email you need. These
notifications to go to this is also the
email subject so you can change that now
that looks good. You also want to make
sure that the confirmation looks good
for the person who is submitting the
donation you can either create a message
right there
or you can redirect them to say a Thank
You page with a very specific thank you
page or a confirmation page. I'm going to
keep it with the message and now we can
click on Save Changes. Finally we need
to add the donation form to our website.
So I'm going to go under pages add a new
page can name it whatever you want, you
can add any of the content that is
important to add here and finally this
add form area we just click on that, go
to the drop-down, choose the donation
form, and add it here. You'll see the
shortcode just leave it like that
once you click publish
then it is good to go on your site. Let's
open it up into a new tab and you see
what it looks like here and now you have
a very easy donation form that people
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