Using PayPal
Payment buttons
To add a PayPal donation button to your website, you must first of all log-in to your PayPal account.
Then follow this link to take you to the following page:
- Choose a button type - a Donations button may need you to prove that you are a not for profit organisation!
- Enter the Organisation name/service such as Cheddar Vale Lions Club
- Donation ID such as Wishing Well
- The two fields above serve as a reference for the Donor
- Customise button if desired.
- Currency of the donation (GBP is Pounds Sterling)
- Contribution amount - Choose variable or fixed amounts.
- Choose other options as appropriate.
Click Customise advanced features on this page and complete the Customise checkout pages section.
Use the section Can your customer add special instructions in a message to you? to give your donor the opportunity to leave you a short message. You wish to change the prompt to Leave us a message: or similar.
You may Need your customer's postal address? if you are claiming Gift Aid.
In the Cancel Payment URL box, enter http://cheddarvalelions.org.uk/_paypalno.html View this page
In the Successful Payment URL box, enter http://cheddarvalelions.org.uk/_paypalyes.html View this page
You may, if you wish, create your own fail and success pages. Then simply change the URLs above to reflect that.
Finally click Create Button and you will see the HTML code for your button.
To display the button on every page, copy and paste the code into the Constant 1 box in the Control File, otherwise switch to HTML view 
and paste the code in at an appropriate point in one of your pages.
When a visitor makes a payment, you will be informed by PayPal by email.
Account activity
From time-to-time PayPal update their website and our page may become out-of-date, however the general principles remain
As a 'merchant', when you log-in to your PayPal account you will be greeted with the following summary page displaying available funds and recent activity on your account.
If you click on Activity (including balance & fees), on the next page you will see more detail and can select different periods.
If you would like to print a postage label, refund etc or download the transactions you should click on the Activity tab.
On the Activity page use the drop-down in the Actions column as appropriate.
If you click on the Download link on the right hand side of the Activity page, the Download History page will open.
Here you may select the date range, type of file download and optionally Include Shopping Cart details, which enables greater analysis of your transactions.
PayPal fees
Please refer to PayPal if you have any queries relating to your account with them as we are not able to help because we have no access to your PayPal account.
PayPal currently charge 30p plus 2.9% on transactions but if you are a registered charity the rate falls to 20p plus 1.4%.
An example might be:
Donation of £10: PayPal fee is 10.00 x 1.4 / 100 = 0.14p + 20p = 34p for registered charities and 10.00 x 2.9 / 100 = 0.29p + 30p = 59p for others.
See the PayPal website for full fee information