I hate to break it to you John, but normal people do not run scripts.
They just click on stuff, mostly by accident. ;-)
It needs to be easy, otherwise Dennis would probably not be asking us
jokers for ideas....
Given that the supply of money will (for once) outstrip demand I
didn't think giving Ebay or even the tax man a cut was an issue, at
least for the first year. You'll be surprised how quickly the
generosity runs dry when you make this an annual event.
ST
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On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 4:57 PM, John Griessen <john@...> wrote:
On 05/01/2018 09:01 AM, Phil wrote:
1)going through ebay with small donations will do more to swell ebays
coffers than the group. Better to just use paypal.
I agree. Mentioning on this email list is plenty to get donations to come
in.
Paypal can have problems too though. If you are paid, they take out some
money even if you then refund it.
People can choose gift or product usually when they send.
There is a receiver generated donate button that can be done with a web site
that needs some research.
Here is an example of it:
By turning that button on/off you could control over active donating
completely. The person,(volunteer), in charge of
that turn on/off function could do so by logging into the server the website
is on, run a script to turn on, stay logged in,
tell folks on the list, see donations reach enough to pay the bill, run a
script to turn off, logout.
When done by the fixed donation amount, any extra donations could be
refunded so the amount is exact each year, making
bookkeeping easy.
