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hello,
I’m still having trouble setting up donations. When it asks for the company name, job title, business address, business phone number, website, business type such as LLC, nonprofit organization, etc., and other required fields, I’m not sure what to put. Any suggestions? I don’t have a website, or a Facebook page or Twitter for this group. I’d rather not give out my personal Twitter or Facebook information. just need some assistance getting started.
Blessings,
Fabien

Fabien, I think that you are overthinking it.

Just create an account - they only ask for name, email address, create password.

About using Stripe with Groups.io, see?/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Donations

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On Nov 13, 2019, at 12:29 AM, Fabien <theboxcarchildren10@...> wrote:

Hello Francis,
When I try to set it up, I have a message that says, “before you can start excepting payments, we need to know more about your business and what it is used for.”

Why not tell the truth?..
You have an email List and want to accept donations to help pay to host it.

On 13 Nov 2019 06:03, Fabien wrote:

I’m still having trouble setting up donations. When it asks for the
company name, job title, business address, business phone number,
website, business type such as LLC, nonprofit organization, etc., and
other required fields, I’m not sure what to put.

The Stripe page that is displayed depends on which country you're in, so we can't really help unless you tell us in which country you are, so that we can go look at what the Stripe page looks like for that country.

Samuel

On 13 Nov 2019 06:15, Frances wrote:

Fabien, I think that you are overthinking it. Just create an account
- they only ask for name, email address, create password.

While it's true that you can register with Stripe with only your name,
e-mail address and a password, you can't connect to a service (such as
Groups.io) unless you are a commercial or registered non-profit entity
and unless you reveal not only information about your business or
organisation but also personal, identifying information about yourself
(in your capacity as a director of your organisation who "authorises"
Stripe to connect to your organisation).

I think the fact is that Groups.io's donations system is still rather
underdeveloped, and currently only officially registered entities can
make use of it. It's not currently meant for individuals.

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?

Samuel

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?

Samuel -- Regular PayPal buttons are rendered as an html form. Forms, iframes and similar constructs are stripped by the groups.io editor before save.

If you have a separate web site, you can host the donation buttons there and link to that.

Bruce

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