{"id":4133,"date":"2017-12-18T09:21:45","date_gmt":"2017-12-18T17:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/macallan-internal.ningops.com\/ning3help\/?p=4133"},"modified":"2019-08-06T07:06:10","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T14:06:10","slug":"introduction-donation-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ning.com\/ning3help\/introduction-donation-feature\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction to Donation feature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Donation feature is a part of the NING E-commerce platform that allows you to accept voluntary payments from your network members.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Asking network members for Donations is a perfect way to raise funds needed to maintain communities or implement charity purposes. It is the most organic and unobtrusive monetization technique that doesn\u2019t force network members to pay, rather offering a chance to contribute to a common cause.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Applying a Donation button as well as a Donation block on your page takes just a couple of minutes, but at the same time, it can bring you a whole bunch of benefits, starting from supporting your community and compensating your expenses on running the website, to fulfilling different charitable missions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Collecting Donations is your best option if\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Your network has an altruistic mission;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Your members joined to be social activists or support a noble cause;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Your network represents a non-profit or charity organization;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You want to raise funds for your business idea;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You wouldn\u2019t like to limit the access to your website or its content and want to introduce monetization steadily with no enforcement;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You want to let your members support your network voluntarily.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let\u2019s look a bit closer at how it works and what benefits it can give to you.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Useful settings<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When applying the Donation feature to your network, you can set up a number of parameters:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Donation amount: depending on your needs, you can set up your own minimum and maximum limits of donation;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Currency: by default, you can use <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">USD, EUR, AUD, GBP, and BRL<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as donation currency; however, you can apply any other currency by asking the support team;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Name: you can collect funds not only for one but for several purposes at the same time, creating different Donation buttons and giving them correspondent names (for instance \u201cSupport community\u201d and \u201cChristmas charity\u201d buttons instead of one generic \u201cDonate\u201d);<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Description: you can provide a description next to your Donate button with a motivating or inspiring story and picture. This way, you can create a Donation block which can be placed on any page or your network.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Testimonial: you will have an opportunity to express your gratitude for a donation to every person that transfers your money by writing a personal message, or even offer them a valuable content in exchange for their contribution.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Additional features<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Apart from the standard settings of the Donation feature, NING 3.0 platform provides you also with additional features that can significantly ease your networking. You will be able to:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Monitor your Donations statistics in the \u201cAnalytics\u201d section of the NING E-commerce platform;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Accept donations via PayPal, Stripe, and IDEAL for users from the European countries;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Receive both one-time donation payments and monthly recurring payments from your network members and unregistered Internet users;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Send a thank you letter. You will receive names and e-mails of the network members who made a contribution so you can write them a reply letter with appreciation;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Monitor all the transactions on your network and know all the details of every payment. In case of fraud or error, you can refund or chargeback the funds.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Conditions for Donation transaction<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Donation feature does not have any fixed or subscription price. There will be only a fee retained during a transaction. The fee will consist of the PayPal, Stripe or IDEAL service price and 5% NING transaction expenses. The NING transaction expenses can be lower according to the agreement with NING. To make an agreement, please contact our support team. The transaction and service fees of PayPal and Stripe you can find on the corresponding websites.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NING can block bank operations as well as block the E-commerce account.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NING can refund payment to the network member if they lodge a corresponding complaint.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If a member initiates refund or chargeback operations, they will get the amount excluding the retainer fee.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The money will be transferred to the account, which is set as the active payment method. The payments made through PayPal will be transferred to the PayPal account; the payments made through the Stripe method will be transferred to the Stripe account of the network creator.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Donation feature is a part of the NING E-commerce platform that allows you to accept voluntary payments from your network members.<br \/>\nAsking network members for Donations is a perfect way to raise funds needed to maintain communities or implement charity purposes. It is the most organic and unobtrusive monetization technique that doesn\u2019t force network members to pay, rather offering a chance to contribute to a common cause.<br \/>\nApplying a Donation button as well as a Donation block on your page takes just a couple of minutes, but at the same time, it can bring you a whole bunch of benefits, starting from supporting your community and compensating your expenses on running the website, to fulfilling different charitable missions.<br \/>\nCollecting Donations is your best option if\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Your network has an altruistic mission;<br \/>\nYour members joined to be social activists or support a noble cause;<br \/>\nYour network represents a non-profit or charity organization;<br \/>\nYou want to raise funds for your business idea;<br \/>\nYou wouldn\u2019t like to limit the access to your website or its content and want to introduce monetization steadily with no enforcement;<br \/>\nYou want to let your members support your network voluntarily.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s look a bit closer at how it works and what benefits it can give to you.<br \/>\nUseful &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[627,626],"tags":[622,623,624,625,458],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v16.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ning.com\/ning3help\/introduction-donation-feature\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Introduction to Donation feature - Ning 3 Help\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Donation feature is a part of the NING E-commerce platform that allows you to accept voluntary payments from your network members. 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Collecting Donations is your best option if\u2026 Your network has an altruistic mission; Your members joined to be social activists or support a noble cause; Your network represents a non-profit or charity organization; You want to raise funds for your business idea; You wouldn\u2019t like to limit the access to your website or its content and want to introduce monetization steadily with no enforcement; You want to let your members support your network voluntarily. Let\u2019s look a bit closer at how it works and what benefits it can give to you. 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