Political Fundraising with Paypal


campaign donationsPayPal has a resources and instructions for users who want to do political fundraising. These resources should be helpful to any local candidates who want to raise money online. There’s even a section for collecting mobile donations!

Once an account is created, campaigns can generate donation buttons and links. To enable donors to contribute to your campaign or PAC on a regular schedule, you can implement PayPal recurring donations by utilizing the Subscribe button. PayPal’s Custom Payment Pages feature gives you the ability to tailor PayPal’s payment pages to the style of your political organization’s website, providing donors with a seamless payment experience.

Because PayPal is simple to set up and administer, we often recommend the service to our clients.

Here are the basic steps for accepting campaign contributions through PayPal:

1) Create a campaign bank account.

2) Sign up for a PayPal Business Account.
a. Select Nonprofit as the business type
b. Select Political as the subcategory

3) Confirm that your political campaign account is a nonprofit,. You will need to submit a tax letter from the IRS and a bank statement or voided check in the name of your organization, along with your PayPal email account and contact details, to compliance@paypal.com.

4) Add a Donate button to your campaign’s website. Use the button designer on PayPal.com to create your button, then simply copy and paste the resulting code into your site.

Do open your account early, as there’s some verification to complete before your account can be set up!

Note that your organization will be responsible for gathering donor information, such as employer and occupation, and obtaining permission from donors before sending future marketing outreach.

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