[Systems] Fwd: [SLOBS] Sugar Labs PayPal and Google Checkout for donations via Conservancy

[David Farning]

It looks like SFC has created accounts for Sugar Labs to receive
donations through paypal and google checkout.

A quick googling for medaiwiki and paypal indicates that we are going
to need some extensions to install the button on our wiki.

thanks.


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Farning <dfarning at sugarlabs.org>
Date: Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 1:03 PM
Subject: Re: [SLOBS] Sugar Labs PayPal and Google Checkout for
donations via Conservancy
To: conservancy at softwarefreedom.org
Cc: conservancy-sugar at softwarefreedom.org

On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 5:09 PM, Bradley M. Kuhn
<bkuhn at softwarefreedom.org> wrote:
> Sugar Labs guys,
>
> Below is the HTML for PayPal donations, followed by the HTML/required
> Javascript for Google Checkout donations.  If you use the links as
> below, the funds will be clearly earmarked for Sugar Labs.  The HTML for
> each is separated by lines of #'s.
>
> Sorry it took some time to get these to you; as usual, we had some
> annoying troubles with PayPal.
>
> Note that PayPal fees tend to be very high, sometimes as much as 10%
> depending on where the donor is, the amount, etc.  Google Checkout is no
> charge for non-profits, at least until the end of the year.  So, you may
> want to make donors aware of this.
>
> Finally, note that Google Checkout is available in USD only.  The PayPal
> button below is for USD, too, but I noticed something new in PayPal now,
> that you can make buttons for receiving in other currencies.  Knowing
> PayPal, I'm sure conversion rates are pathetically high, but if there is
> a specific currency you'd like to have, let me know.  You have to go
> through and make a separate button for each currency, so we should
> probably just do them for currencies you expect donors to use
> frequently.  Ideally, we should have international donors give via wire
> transfer; it's a flat $35 fee to receive a wire of any amount.
>
> ######################################################################
> <form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post">
> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_s-xclick">
> <input type="hidden" name="hosted_button_id" value="1577546">
> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_donateCC_LG.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="">
> <img alt="" border="0" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1">
> </form>
> ######################################################################
> <script type="text/javascript">
> function validateAmount(amount){
>        if(amount.value.match( /^[0-9]+(\.([0-9]+))?$/)){
>                return true;
>        }else{
>                alert('You must enter a valid donation.');
>                amount.focus();
>                return false;
>        }
> }
> </script>
> <form action="https://checkout.google.com/cws/v2/Donations/622836985124940/checkoutForm" id="BB_BuyButtonForm" method="post" name="BB_BuyButtonForm" onSubmit="return validateAmount(this.item_price_1)">
>    <input name="item_name_1" type="hidden" value="Sugar Labs - directed donation via Software Freedom Conservancy, Inc."/>
>    <input name="item_description_1" type="hidden" value="A directed, earmarked donation for Sugar Labs, via the Software Freedom Conservancy, Inc."/>
>    <input name="item_quantity_1" type="hidden" value="1"/>
>    <input name="item_currency_1" type="hidden" value="USD"/>
>    <input name="item_is_modifiable_1" type="hidden" value="true"/>
>    <input name="item_min_price_1" type="hidden" value="5.0"/>
>    <input name="item_max_price_1" type="hidden" value="25000.0"/>
>    <input name="_charset_" type="hidden" value="utf-8"/>
>    <table cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="1%">
>        <tr>
>            <td align="right" nowrap="nowrap" width="1%">&#x24; <input id="item_price_1" name="item_price_1" onfocus="this.style.color='black'; this.value='';" size="11" style="color:grey;" type="text" value="Enter Amount"/>
>            </td>
>            <td align="left" width="1%">
>                <input alt="Donate" src="https://checkout.google.com/buttons/donateNow.gif?merchant_id=622836985124940&amp;w=115&amp;h=50&amp;style=white&amp;variant=text&amp;loc=en_US" type="image"/>
>            </td>
>        </tr>
>    </table>
> </form>
> ######################################################################
>
> --
> Bradley M. Kuhn
> President, Software Freedom Conservancy
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