How to add PayPal donation button in Blogger blog – Donation widget

Is your blog is ad free or you offering any products or services in your blog for free then at least add a donation button for all your hard work. You might have noticed PayPal donation buttons in some blogs and open source software sites. Making money by adding a donation button works well especially if your site offers freeware. If you are offering quality stuff then some generous people will definitely donate an apt amount. Here in this article we will see how to add PayPal donation button in Blogger blog.

Blogger is a free platform, so donation has no purpose in keeping your blog running but at least it will motivate you more in your work. PayPal is the easiest and reliable way to send and receive payments worldwide. Since PayPal has various tools you can easily add a donation button to your blog sidebar, footer and in posts. Adding donation button is simple, free and when the button is added you can start receiving payments. One thing good is that donors don’t need to have a PayPal account; they can donate using credit and debit cards.

How to add PayPal donation button in Blogger blog

To receive donations or payments you need to have a PayPal account. If you don’t have one then go and create your PayPal account first (Personal account or Business account). Make sure to confirm your email address.

The process of adding a PayPal donation button in your Blogger blog involves only two steps that is:

You can create PayPal donation button from both personal account and Business account. If you want you can upgrade your personal account to business as a sole proprietor. To upgrade your account go to this link, click on sign up and enter all the necessary details for your business account. People can send donations to you via credit card and debit cards only if you have a business account.

How to create a donation button in PayPal

O.K all done, hope you have created your PayPal account. Now we suggest you to logout from your PayPal account so that the process becomes simple.

Now follow this link and click on “create your button now” which will lead you to next page.

Enter the organization name or service and leave the donation ID field blank which is optional.

You can now start customizing the donation button. You can use your own customized button or you can choose the default PayPal button. Choose country and language. Display credit card logos if you want below the donation button.

At last enter your PayPal email address and click on create button.

Adding PayPal donation button in Blogger

Add PayPal donation button in Blogger using email code

First create your cutom button for PayPal donation or you can get different PayPal donate images from here, from here, from here and from here. Next copy the email code from PayPal website. Now add a PayPal donation button anywhere in your blog by linking to that email code. Here is a detailed article on adding title, link and alt tags to Blogger images.

Sample: <a href=”Your PayPal Email code”><img alt=”” src=”Donation button image URL” title=”Please Donate” /></a>

You can also add PayPal donation button under all posts or in any particular posts. But sidebar is a great place to add such things because your visitors will have an eye on that every time when they visit your blog.

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