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How to Create a Recurring Donation Form

FormSmarts has long supported one-time donations as part of a dedicated donation form, together with other fees on a registration form, or even on a form using our SuperCart shopping cart.

We are pleased to announce that FormSmarts now also supports recurring donations. A recurring donation allows a contributor to sign up for a donation plan to give the same amount at regular intervals, typically every month or year.

Creating a Recurring Donation Form

• Add a text box with the field name formatted as My Donation ($ USD/month)
• Set the field’s Allowed Content (aka. data type) to Number
• In the Form Details screen of the form builder, set the On Submission option to Integrate with PayPal using advanced integration.

FormSmarts supports the following variations:

Recurring Period

• Cause Description ($ USD/month)
• Cause Description ($ USD/2 weeks)
• options: day(s), week(s), month(s), year(s)

Recurring Times

• Cause Description (12 x $ USD/month)
• Think of Recurring Times (12 in this case) as a number of installments
• If Recurring Times is not specified, the recurring donation runs until it is canceled

Contribution to Multiple Causes

As illustrated on the screenshot above and in this demo, you may add multiple donation boxes to a form to give contributors the opportunity to choose the causes they wish to donate to and allow them to contribute to several causes in a single donation. In the example above, the donor is signing up to give a total of $300 each month; with $200 to support Project A and $100 going towards Projects B.

Posted by FormSmarts on Oct 13, 2016 at 8:43 am in payment form.
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