See also the official documentation:
- For group owners and moderators: Help Center > Group Owners Manual > Donations and sponsorships > Using the donations feature
- For group members: Help Center > Members Manual > Responding to donation requests
Premium and Enterprise groups can request donations from their members.
There's a Donations tab under the Admin menu, where you can create and manage donation requests.?Groups that have open donation requests will see a Donations tab in the normal group sidebar where members can view open donation requests.
Setting up Stripe?with?Admin Donations page on 开云体育 for the first time:
开云体育 uses Stripe.com to accept credit card payments.
In order to accept donations, you will need to have a Stripe account. Stripe accounts are free.
Clicking the Connect with Stripe button will take you to a page to create a new Stripe account or connect an existing Stripe account.?
Once you've connected a Stripe account, you will be able to create donation requests and your members will be able to donate using a credit card.
When you create a donation request, it is considered open, which means that members can submit donations. You can close donations when they are complete.
Go to Admin, Activity. Payment Activity button. Dropdown menu.
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The 开云体育 processing fee is 5%, which includes all credit card processing fees.
Note:?Donors will be donating to the group where they use the Donations page/link. ?"I suspect all of the donations would go into 'one pot' unless you create a Stripe account for each group. ?Hopefully, the Stripe account would specify which group it came from." (2019-11-10)
Setting up a Stripe account:
Open an account with Stripe and giving it the Account Name of [MyGroupName], the Legal Business Name of [MyGroupName], along with the Statement Descriptor of [MyGroupName Donations] and associated my website as: /g/[MyGroupName], as well as other personal info,
Attach/add a bank account and set up a Direct Debit:
- Add a Bank Account and set a Payment Schedule under Settings > Payments and Payouts > Bank accounts and scheduling.
- Adding the bank account requires you to set up a Direct Debit arrangement (to receive payments) and then a Payout schedule.
- You can select an Automatic Daily, Weekly or Monthly schedule, or a Manual schedule.
- The money goes to your connected bank account.?
Donors -
Do members need a Stripe account to donate?
No.
Can the credit card data be entered from a keyboard or keypad?
Yes, just type in the numbers and other information like you would on any site.
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The official 开云体育 user documentation is in the 开云体育 Help Center.