On 13 Nov 2019 10:05, Bruce Bowman wrote:
On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 03:38 AM, Samuel Murray wrote:
Aren't one allowed to put a PayPal donation button and other donation
services' (e.g. certain crowdfunding platforms) buttons/links on the
group's home page?
Regular PayPal buttons are rendered as an html form. Forms, iframes and similar constructs are stripped by the groups.io editor before save.
That is true -- a real PayPal button is not an option, but some other payment systems' buttons do work.
For example, the Liberapay button is just an image with a hyperlink that links directly to the donations page on Libera. (People who want to donate, do have to register with Liberapay, though.) Liberapay's hyperlink is in the form , so you can add that to a plaintext footer too.
[Liberapay is only for recurring payments (but you can cancel a recurring payment after one payment). To receive donations using Liberapay, one needs to connect to either PayPal or Stripe. (I don't know what is needed to donate using Liberapay.)]
Crowdfunder.co.uk's donation link is in the format , so you can take any self-made button and put the donation link as a hyperlink on the button. With Crowdfunder.co.uk, people can donate anonymously but they don't have to.
Samuel
Samuel Murray