How to use a payment integration to collect donations, but still list products?

  • sthomay
    Asked on December 20, 2016 at 12:11 PM

    Hello,

    We are selling jerseys for a benefit and all proceeds are going to charity, so it needs to go into PayPal as a donation to not be double-taxed, but as soon as I select that option, all my products are removed from the form.  I still need to have them tell me how many of each size they need, etc.  How do I do this?

  • Kevin Support Team Lead
    Replied on December 20, 2016 at 1:12 PM

    Yes, when you set the payment integration to collect donations you cannot set up products, what you will need to do is to set up the products separately using basic fields, this way you can calculate a final total amount and then pass this amount to the payment field. 

    Here's a screenshot of the fields that you may use: 

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    A text box will be helpful to capture the number of items, size or any other property, you could also use a drop down to list predefined options in your form if you want to have a standard in sizes and limit the allowed quantity to purchase. 

    Once you have set up your products using these fields you may need to add calculation values, this would help if you need to change the price based on size or another property, here's a guide with more details about how to add a calculation value to a field: How-to-Assign-Calculation-Value

    Once this has been done, you need to use the Form Calculation widget to get the total amount and here is a guide that will help with that: How-to-Perform-Form-Calculation-Using-a-Widget

    Now that you have the total calculated in the widget you only need to set up your integration to take this amount, please follow this guide that will help you to pass the value from a calculation widget to a payment field: How-to-Pass-a-Calculation-to-a-Payment-Field

    Do let us know should you have any question.