Accepting Donations Online or fundraising is one of the oldest and best possible ways to raise money. In the past few years, it became the best practice to run online campaigns and request people to donate for your NGO, association and committee. Where in the countries like India, running an NGO or a Not-For-Profit Organization is not an easy task, it requires a lot of hard work and efforts to convince people to donate to your nonprofit organization. Where when it comes to collecting donations online your efforts could be slashed by 50% as on the Internet you can run online campaigns, request people to donate for your NGO from social media websites like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Google Plus etc. You could also use advertising programmes like Google AdWords and Facebook Advert to reach maximum people.
Now, making your WordPress powered website to Accept Donations Online.
Note: This article is only for the Indian merchants, though still it can be used in any country, we are more focused upon integrating payment gateway on WordPress powered websites for the NGOs operating in India.
Before you begin fundraising you must be aware that there are some legal procedures that you have to follow, these are:
While applying for the Current Bank account for your nonprofit organization don’t forget to apply to the Net banking which is going to play a major role in fundraising, account verification and maintaining your account online.
Once you are ready with required documents and your website is ready to accept donations, you can move to the next step which is about integrating the Payment Gateway on your website.
To collect donations on a WordPress powered website you need:
Once you have applied and your PayUmoney account gets verified the next step is linking-up your PayUmoney account with your WordPress powered website.
First of all, download the PayUMoney charitable plugin from the above-mentioned URL or contact me and I will give you another plugin at Rs. 1500/-. Once you have downloaded the plugin, just install it like a normal WordPress plugin and activate it.
On activating Charitable PayUMoney plugin for WordPress, you will be asked to install another plugin named “Charitable plugin” which is mandatory to install with the Charitable PayUmoney plugin. To install the Charitable plugin, simply click on the link and it will automatically install it.
Once you have installed both the plugins, the next step is enabling the Payment gateways out of 3 which include PayUmoney, PayPal and offline-payment.
To enable PayUmoney payment gateway on Charitable Plugin :
The Next step is applying the Payment Gateway Credential, to apply the gateway credential :
IMPORTANT: On applying for the merchant account on the PayUmoney portal you will give Merchant Key and Merchant Salt which is very important and is highly confidential (YOU SHOULD NOT SHARE THIS WITH ANYBODY)
On the PayUmoney Gateways Settings page, you have to fill out the Gateway Label, Live Merchant Key and Live Merchant Salt which you can obtain from the PayUmoney.
To obtain Live Merchant Key and Live Merchant Salt:
Congratulations! You’ve linked your website with the PayUmoney merchant account. Now, the next step is setting up the donation page.
To set up a donation page :
Now, your website is ready to accept donations online.