Setting up PayPal
Collecting registration fees online through our integration with PayPal is easy. Some of the benefits include:
- Automatically receiving payment immediately upon completion of the registration process directly to your PayPal account
- Enabling your participants to pay using a PayPal account, credit card or debit card
- The ability to issue full or partial PayPal refunds directly from FamilyID
- Complete tracking and reporting of all payments in FamilyID and in PayPal
You'll need to open a standard, business PayPal account and follow the steps to verify the account (this means connecting your PayPal account to your checking account). This can take 2-3 business days.
You can sign up for this standard PayPal account here:
https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/paypal-payments-standard
Once you have created your PayPal account, enter your PayPal address into your FamilyID account settings. Keep in mind that when you accept online payments, PayPal will charge you a transaction fee (typically 2.9% plus $.30 per registration, or 2.2% plus $.30 for organizations with 501(c)3 non-profit status). Some program providers elect to add an Administrative Fee to their registrations forms to cover those costs. Others accept the fee as a cost of doing business and do not pass that cost along to the registrants.
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Log in to your FamilyID account and select
Programs from the blue navigation bar at the top of the screen.
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Select the
Edit button associated with an existing program.
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From the program editing wizard, select tab
6 for
Payment.
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Select the blue
Create New Payment Method button.
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Choose
PayPal from the drop-down and select the blue
Save button.
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NOTE: Please test that this new PayPal account setup works before opening and accepting registrations.
