##Text
Let’s discuss a better text for the donation page. Suggestions welcome - please post it below.
I will look at the design of the page also again. Suggestions welcome. What info or images should be on the donation page?
##Placement on the Main Page
I already added “DONATE” to the menu bar. Will have a look later on the page - when I redesign it anyway - where else we could place it. Suggestions welcome.
##New Design - DONE
Jepp, the button is ugly. Will try to get @OTTILIE to help create a better one.
##Strategy
Below I share the embed code for the button + a link you can send out via email.
What strategy can we use to spread the word about the button? Should there be a topic in the public part of the forum with the embed code asking people to share it - embed it also and so on?
Other ideas?
##Test it - DONE
My Paypal is empty. If someone of you has a paypal could you test the button and transfer a small sum - 1 Euro or so - so we see, if it works? Please let me know, if you have done it.
##PAYPAL DONATION BUTTON EMBEDD
###HTML
Paypal had provided Embed Code but for unknown reasons their html code did not work. So I created our own:
Hi Lars, please re-configure the PayPal donate accept credit card payments and not require a PayPal account. Not everybody wants to create a PayPal account and there is an option for it, when you set-up payments to your account. If you don’t find it, I will look for it myself.
I sent a donation using my existing PayPal account, let me know if you got it. However, I don’t think it’s a good idea to ask people to create an account,some will find it annoying. Another login info to remember, on top the one million others…
As for the text:
Setting up a global OSCEdays event and providing infrastructure for the global community requires a lot of work and consumes resources – for hosting, graphic design, information management and so on. Please support OSCEdays with a small donation. Thank you.
Great Silvia - the donation arrived, so the connection works.
I was chatting with the people from Paypal on the phone and what I got from that was, that they don’t have the possibility to pay with credit cards when it comes to donations
I also thought, that is not good! Because … who has a Paypal account?
Here you can have access to the Paypal account. Maybe you can find a way to set it up.
admin note: I relocate this thread from the hidden “Sponsorship Category” to the public “Association” thread. I figure, it is not necessary to keep it invisible. No sensitive data shared. (Let me know if I missed something)
Will check the copy next week when I get back from the Ouishare Fest, see if I can find ways for improvement.
In the meanwhile, regarding the problem of having to check in in Paypal to pay, I was thinking that maybe we could use another service like donorbox or stripe, which should also be fairly easy to put in place and have advantageous pricing for non-profits.
