Adding a ‘Paypal Donate Button’ is one of many ways like PPC, Paid blogging, Link selling, Affiliate products selling bloggers use to make money from their blogs. There is no harm in asking your blog readers to donate some bucks in your paypal account if they really like the content of your blog and want to keep it going.
Table of contents
Why I need a paypal donation button
Adding a Paypal Donation Button
Add Donate button into Blogger Free Blogs
Add Paypal button into WordPress blogs
Adding a Paypal donate button to a website
Paypal icons
Why I need a paypal donation button
Adding a paypal icon on your website or blog is not a bad idea if you can provide better content and services to your website or blog readers by accepting some donations from them. You should do something special for those who give some bucks as donation to you like adding a paypal donation widget, giving something free may be some links or advertisements on your website. But we should avoid adding paypal donation widgets on our website if it’s new or is not popular in its niche as that will only show our greediness for money. And you should allow as small as $1 as donation on your website.
Adding a Paypal Donation Button
Sign into your Paypal account and if you don’t have, get a free paypal account here.
- Login into your Paypal account with your paypal E-mail address and password:
- Click on ‘Merchant Services’ Tab available in the Top Menu
- When you scroll down your window, you will see a ‘Donations’ link in the ‘PayPal Website Payments Standard’ heading Section.
- Clicking on the ‘Donate’ link will take you a form where you are asked to fill some information’s like Organization name/service, Donation ID (optional).
- After Filing the required information click on ‘Create Button’ link.
- Now you will see some HTML Code, copy it
Adding HTML code into Blogger free blogs:
- Sign in into your Blogger Blog and Click on the ‘Layout’ link in your dashboard
- Click ‘Add a Gadget’ link and select ‘HTML/JavaScript’ option
- Now paste the HTML code that you copied from your Paypal account and save it.
- Now open your blog and you will see the ‘Paypal Donate’ button in your blogspot blog sidebar. You can display Donate button wherever you want on your blog like blog Header, footer or its sidebar
Adding HTML code into WordPress blogs
- Login into your WordPress blog and go to its Dashboard
- Click Presentation –> Widgets
- Click on the content area in front of ‘Text 1’ widget
- Paste your HTML code in the content area available and save changes
- Open your WordPress blog and check donate button will be in your blog sidebar
This is how we can add Paypal donation button to a WordPress and blogger blog.
Adding a Paypal donate button to a website
And what you will do if you need to add this paypal widget to your website? What you will need is add the following code on any of your website page or within your website template where you want to display paypal donation icon:
<form name=”_xclick” action=”https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr” method=”post”>
<input type=”hidden” name=”cmd” value=”_xclick”>
<input type=”hidden” name=”business” value=”user@yourdomain.com”>
<input type=”hidden” name=”item_name” value=”Customer Service”>
<input type=”hidden” name=”currency_code” value=”USD”>
<input type=”hidden” name=”amount” value=”1.00″>
<input type=”image” src=”http://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_donate_LG.gif” border=”0″ name=”submit” alt=”Make payments with PayPal – it’s fast, free and secure!”>
</form>
Paypal icons
Here are some paypal icons you can use as a donation symbol on your blogs and websites:
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very informative post, yes there’s nothing wrong with putting such button
Really good idea, If your contents are useful for readers.
Unfortunately, when I try that and save it, the button doesn’t show up in the sidebar. It’s just blank.
Hi Jeremy
Could you tell me the steps that you followed to add Paypal button on your blog. And where is your blog hosted, if its wordpress or blogger?
This Donate button method is NOT working on my wordpress blog (which is on wordpress’s platform). The title shows up in the sidebar, but NOT the BUTTON. Any add’l help or steps not listed here? Thx
@whitehawk
I would suggest you to follow the steps mentioned in “Adding HTML code into Wordpress blog” in this post section. If you still face problems, let me know in the comments section, I will help you add paypal button to your wordpress blog.
please i can’t find merchant service on my paypal home page after login
@jobucks
Merchant Services should be the forth link in your navigation bar. First three links in navigation that I’m able to see in my paypal account are:
My Account Send Money Request Money
Let me know if you still find problem in finding merchant services link in your paypal account
Regarding the creation of a paypal “Donate” button, when I search under my dashboard, there is no “Presentation” category. There is, however, one that says “Appearance” and it is the only category that has Widgets underneath it. I selected Widgets and I do not find “Text 1″. Is this something I have to create? I’m a complete novice, help, please
I have attempted to post the “Donate” button code twice and don’t seem to be getting anywhere.
But when I saw your blog created on wordpress (phitautn.wordpress.com), I saw a paypal link in your sidebar. So I think you have got success in adding a paypal donate button to your wordpress blog.
I figured out how to move text to the right and solved problem #1. Next, I determined that I was choosing the wrong paypal link. There are two choices, after I selected the “email” version, that solved the problem. Thanks for the quick response.
I cant’ get this to work either..help?
It’s not working! Why isn’t the Paypal button working in wordpress? Argh.
@Lucy,
oh wait, i got it…. just used the image paypal has then the link for the email option.
Original Paypal code embedding on wordpress blogs = FAIL! XD
Well! This is an interesting idea. I have to admit, it never crossed my mind, until now. But it might just be worth looking into. Too bad, I’m reading this after I sold off my best blog. Anyway, it is a good idea and worth looking at.
Thanks for the post.
Anthony
@Lucy, Can you help me out with this? I have the paypal button, but when I put the HTML code in the box, it deletes itself. I tried using the email version of the HTML code, and the link didn’t work. Help?
Hey Anil
I was under the impression for getting a Paypal button, that I had to have a premium account. Thanks for the update. I was so clueless about that because when I was looking at my back office of paypal a couple of months ago, it said something about having a premium paid account to get a button. Need more coffee cause I was not reading that correctly.
Your post gave specific instructions on how and why to add a “Donate” button. I installed it on two of my blogs without any problems.
Thanks for the informative article.
Sue
i have problem installing it. it doesn’t appear in my side bar
You may want to try Revolution Money Exchange. Set up is easy. It doesn’t charge any bank fees like PayPal does. Hence, instead of collecting 97% of what people give you can collect 100%. I recently learned about it through open.salon.com. I now use both buttons/services and let people know which I prefer.
Their web site is…
http://www.revolutionmoney.com
This still doesn’t answer how to post a donate button WITHIN a blog …I am doing a project for someone like this:
http://www.jaynash.com/newalbum/
and I cannot figure out how they did this…anyone have any ideas?
Thanks!
Mary, please list the steps you followed. What particular step is giving you difficulty? It took me some playing around with the blog and determining it was necessary to use the “email” option when sending the html code, but I solved the problem.
i cant find any “donate link” in the paypal website, in the “create paypal payment button” there is a drop down list for “choose button type” and in that drop down list i can see only 4 types of buttons and those are:-
1]buy now button
2]gift vouchers
3]subscriptions
4]shopping cart
so donation button is not present there, so what should i do, is it because i have personal account?
my blog:- http://www.ajaysingh142.wordpress.com
Thanks, I’ve been meaning to add a donate link to my page for awhile now. I plan to step up my content production a lot more once I do so my readers feel a donation is justified.
This is a great informative post, which will help me finally get that online store of mine running. Much appreciated!
I cant add code to my blog. how do I add code to my website?
Hi
You should be able to add that if you running a blog on blogger or self hosted wordpress blogs at least
Nice post about paypal. I will implement in paypal bangladesh. Thank you very much.
Adding a paypal button to my blog will be a cool feature.
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