Alertpay donation button: An easy way to raise funds

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Posted by Felix Okoli on Thursday August 18, 2011 at 21:14:24:

Alertpay is a cool payment system that allows users to send and receive money online as long as at least one of the parties involved have an account with Alertpay.
I had previously written about how to add an alertpay donation button on your website but that was mainly the manual method. Now I just want to share with your guys about a much easier donation button setup which Alertpay has launched recently. Now you can easily setup a donation button from within your Alertpay account and raise as much funds as you want.

How to easily setup an Alertpay donation button from within your account:
- Login to your Alertpay account
- Go to business tools
- Click on manage buttons
- Under standard integration
- Click on manage or generate donation button
- Click on add under manage buttons to generate a new button
- You can also choose a button to edit if you have generated a button before

Generating the new button
- Under Name, enter the name of the button such as Support us, Help us remain free or Donate to our organisation
- Under description, describe in more detail what the donation is all about
- Just fill out the remaining fields
- Enter a return url and cancel url for a page on your site to return to when processed or cancelled
- Enter an alert url such as cgi or active page that helps handle alertpay's ipn that will be sent to your server.
- Enter the pricing or leave it blank to allow donors to enter their own amount.
- Click on update to save your donation button
- Copy the code which has now been encoded and short and paste it on your website to start accepting donations

Tip: You can always replace the Alertpay button image to a customized image by simply replacing the image tag url to the image on your site

You can create more buttons and so anyone that has got an Alertpay account can as well make a donation to you.

How about accepting donations from people who don't have an alertpay account? Well this is possible as all the donor really needs is an acceptable credit card but you will need to configure your account to be able to start accepting credit card payments

How do you setup your Alertpay account in order to be able to start receiving credit card payments?
Well, once you are logged in to your Alertpay account
- Go to business tools
- Under resources, go to websites
- You will need a standard website that adheres to Alertpay's rules in order to be able to start accepting credit card payments
- Click on add website to submit your website for a review
- After the review which may take some days, a decision will be made on whether you will be activated to start receiving credit card payments

You can also try our buttons below to make a donation:

Help us remain a free website

It works both for Alertpay and credit card users

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Comments:
Re: Alertpay donation button: An easy way to raise funds Posted by Julius on Sunday November 6, 2011 at 4:26:13:

This actually works easily. Thanks. Have already added it to my blog.

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