Free WordPress.com sites that use PayPal

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  makingithappen2 · Member · Oct 22, 2015 at 6:00 pm

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  Hello,I live in Florida and I’m building a free WordPress.com website for a family member living in Great Britain. She provides spiritual advice to people for a fee and would like to add a PayPal button to the site. I’m looking for examples of the free websites that have the ‘wordpress.com’ in the URL (ie ‘testsite.wordpress.com). Can you point me to a list websites that use PayPal and have the WordPress in the URL. Thanks, Mark (email visible only to moderators and staff)

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  timethief · Member · Oct 22, 2015 at 6:48 pm

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  There are tens of thousands of wordpress.COM hosted blogs and there is no such list.

  eCommerce is not possible on a wordpress.COM hosted blog unless you have a Business upgrade for $299. per year in US funds. See here:
  http://store.wordpress.com/plans/business/
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/ecommerce/

  Otherwise, provided you are selling only what you yourself make or a service that you personally provide you have two options.

  (1) PayPal – Know that the only instructions that will work for posting a PayPal donation button on a WordPress.com blog are found here http://en.support.wordpress.com/paypal/ and do not try to use any other instructions as they will not work.

  (2) If you set up an eCommerce site somewhere else online you can create a custom menu http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/ and include a custom link to that site in it. http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#adding-custom-links

  Some bloggers create a contact form https://en.support.wordpress.com/contact-form/ on a page and after the people have made a PayPal donation they provide the link to a private page for downloading files. Maybe that will work for you.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/page-visibility/

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  makingithappen2 · Member · Oct 23, 2015 at 2:34 am

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  Thank you for your reply concerning the use of PayPal on WP.com sites. Since her advice is of her own making, using a PayPal button should be OK to use under the guidelines you referenced.

  I would also like to say how much I appreciate your site “one cool site”. Since I’m still kind of new new to WordPress, I’ve learned a lot from your posts, it’s been a big help.

  Thanks again, Mark