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Need some advice setting up a donation form with authorize.net and Paypal

  1. Okay so here is the form in question...

    http://www.lowercolumbiacap.org/give-help/donate/

    The form is a donation form that uses authorize.net and Paypal standard. There is an option to make a one time donation or a recurring donation (subscription). I have the authorize.net part of it working perfectly so I don't need any help there, the help I need mostly revolves around integrating PayPal standard.

    So, I go to Forms > PayPal < Add New. Once I do that I add one feed for subscriptions, and another feed for donations. I map the donation feed by saying 'If Frequency is make a one time donation' send to PayPal. I map the subscription field by saying 'if frequency is make a recurring donation' send to PayPal.

    The problem is that I also need to be able to add a condition for each of those saying if the payment method field is equal to PayPal then send to PayPal. Of course you can only add one condition per feed so I don't know how to do this.

    The other issue is that with the subscription feed since there is no option for a subscription donation won't PayPal ding me for their fees since the subscription feed doesn't have an option of being both a subscription and a donation?

    Any help is appreciated. I have no problem setting up the form with a single payment system like authorize.net but it got a lot more complicated once I wanted to add an option for PayPal standards. The logic just isn't making sense to me.

    Posted 11 years ago on Monday February 18, 2013 | Permalink
  2. On this page https://www.lowercolumbiacap.org/give-help/donate/ I see credit card information being collected no matter what. That is not how the PayPal standard add-on works. You don't need to collect credit card information up front: PayPal does that. Are you collecting credit card information and sending the visitor to PayPal?

    When is authorize.net used, and when do you want to use PayPal standard?

    Posted 11 years ago on Tuesday February 19, 2013 | Permalink