| Q. How Can I Get My Own Widget To Use On my Website? |
| A. Start by clicking the Join Free link, fill out the registration form, once complete you will obtain your username and password within an email, after logging in to the site, click the generate meter link and fill out the info, once done you will be able to copy the meter code to your site.
Check out the Introduction Video for a full tutorial on signing up and creating your first widget. |
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| Q. Do I Need To Know PHP, Flash or Other Scripting To Use This? |
| A. Not at all, your meter is generated by filling out a simple form within the members area of our website, and then copying the code generated and pasting it into your site. |
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| Q. Does my organization have to have a PayPal account to use the widget? |
| A. Yes, our donation widget is designed to interact with PayPal.com. who processes the transactions. |
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| Q. Do my donors need a PayPal.com account to donate money? |
| A. No. If they do not have a PayPal.com account they may still donate with a credit/debit card. PayPal.com will still process the transaction for you. |
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| Q. Is it truly 100% free and how long will it be free? |
| A. The Original FundRaising Widget is and will always be hosted and provided 100%Free. There will be a small link on the bottom of the donation widgets and a few select adverts through our website to help support the site.
Currently, any organization or individual that needs online donation trackin can create an account and unlimited donation widgets, at no charge, for as long as required. |
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| Q. Does my organization have to have a website to use the widget? |
| A. Yes and No, you need a website to use the script in general but you can use the script on your blog, myspace account and possibly other similar sites.
In order to use PayPal.com you also have to set up a thank-you page to send donors to after they have donated. This is a PayPal.com requirement. |
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| Q. Do you charge a transaction fee to process donations? |
| A. No. We do not charge a transaction fee on the donations you receive. If you receive a donation via PayPal then PayPal will charge a transaction fee. Nonprofit organizations that have registered with PayPal receive a discount on their transaction fees. If you receive a cash or check donation you may manually add that donation and update your widget through your control panel. No fee will apply in that case. |
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| Q. Is my organization's financial information private? |
| A. Yes, PayPal.com is a secure, online payment processor. Your financial information is private as well as that of your donor. OriginalFundRaisingWidget.com has no access to your financial information or that of your donors. |
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| Q. Is our organization's fundraising widget information kept private? |
| A. Yes, you will be assigned your own account and password that you use to login to the control panel and create your fundraising widget. No one else will have access to that account. |
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| Q. Can I create more than one widget? |
| A. You may create an unlimited amount of widgets at a time. If you have reached your goal with a widget you may delete that widget if you wish. |
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| Q. What happens to the widget when we reach our fundraising goal? |
| A. The widget will still be visible on your website and any other websites until you delete it. You can either continue to receive donations beyond your goal or you can set your widget to stop accepting donations after your goal is reached, it will be marked "closed" and you and your supporters can remove it from your websites or leave it as is. |
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| Q. Can I use your donation tracking widget for adult related purposes? |
| A. While we do not object to you using our free service for any and all donation needs you may have, we do place some restrictions, if your using the widget for adult related purposes or including any photo, link or text within your widget that is not considered family friendly, then we do not list your widget on any visible page of our site except your hosted page itself and we do not link to your hosted page from any other page of our site, this is in an effort to keep minors from being exposed to adult related content.
Also as a side note we should point out that paypal frowns on adult related content and within their terms of service they prohibit you from using paypal to collect money for adult related purposes, so use at your own risk. |
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