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Donations

Precondition

Payment Partner

We partner with RaiseNow for online donations. There is a pay as you go subscription model without fixed costs or you can get an advanced subscription. Get a contract, before you proceed.

Plugin

If your website wasn't installed by us, you may have to install the RaiseNow donation forms plugin.

Know WordPress Basics

We assume you have already gathered some experience with your website and know the basics terms, how to edit or add a post etc.

Configuring the online donation forms

In the backend goto Settings > Online donations.

API-Key

The API-Key is provided to you by RaiseNow. If you don't add it, online donations won't work!

Custom CSS

We recommend you to copy the following lines into the Custom CSS field, so the donation form works better with our theme.

.lema-container a {
    box-shadow: none;
}

.select2-drop ul li::before {
    content: none;
}

Adding a donation form

In your post or page, where you want to add the donation form, add a text block. Just above the WYSIWYG Editor you'll find a button Insert Donation Form. It will insert a so called short code that will be transformed into the donation form on the frontend.

Trouble shooting

The form doesn't appear

This is most certainly a problem with your API-Key.

I get an error when making payments

Usually when RaiseNow confirms you the contract, the put the donation form in testing mode, so you can make test donations without having to pay (read the details in the email from RaiseNow). To get the form accepting real value, ask RaiseNow to put the form in production mode.