Online donation form

An online donation form is included with your Wild Apricot system. You can find it in the left-hand menu, it is named 'Donate' by default. (If you do not see it, you can add it using 'Add page' button, 'Functional pages' tab.
You can move it around in the menu, rename or hide it altogether (so it will only be visible to system administrators).
Initially, the form is disabled (can not be used for people to donate) - you need to setup your Wild Apricot account integration with PayPal (via Settings / Payment settings).
Once that is done, your donation form is ready and you can start accepting online credit card donations:
(Note that the form is permanently disabled in the site administration mode - you need to log out to see how it looks to regular visitors and members).

It is usually a good idea to create another page, e.g. 'About donations' and make the donation form its child (nested) page. On the 'About donations' page you can explain how the process works, tax deductibility, how to get a receipt etc. You can also provide a link to the donation form.
The Donation form has only 4 mandatory fields - Amount, First and Last name and E-mail. All other fields are optional. In the future we will allow customizing the donation form in the same way as we do that for member application form and event registration form.

Once the form is filled out, visitors would press the Donate button. They will then be taken to the secure PayPal website to enter their credit card details and other information required to process the payment. Donation record will be immediately added to your donation's database. Once PayPal confirms the successful processing of the credit card transaction, it will communicate with our server and the donation will be marked as 'Confirmed' in the database and a confirmation email will be sent to the donor (you can customize it - see Customize donation email receipt). If the payment was not completed, the record will stay in your database with 'Pending' status. In this case you can contact the donor to help resolve the problem and finalize the donation.