How to set up

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    wcfm2d6e7eab99a · Member ·

    Our Quaker Meeting would like a stand-alone blog linked to our web site. My question is how the meeting could set that up and manage payment. I have a personal WordPress/BlueHost blog paid by credit card but our church does not have a credit card. Can we set it up in the church’s name, with its email, and have a member pay with his/her credit card?

    WP.com: Yes
    Jetpack: No
    Correct account: Yes

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    parkdanil · Member ·

    I think the best option to achieve your goal would be to create a Free WordPress.com site and include a Donation Block on the page to accept payments from your congregation members.

    WordPress uses Stripe for collecting payments. Here is the guide:

    WP
    Blocks (The Full List) » Accept Donations
    in WordPress.com Support
    5 min read
    Use the Donations Form block to accept credit and debit card payments for donations, contributions, and tips. This guide will show you how to set up donations on your website. About Donations The Donations Form block uses Stripe to process credit and debit card payments from your website’s visitors to ensure safe and secure payments through encryption. Using the Donations Form block, y

    You can simplify usability by designing the blog using a single-page theme with a sidebar and a static homepage. The donation block should fit inside the sidebar and you can place facility location information near the page footer.

    BTW, Bluehost is a separate company from WordPress.com, both companies offer competing services. The blogging software (WordPress) shares the same name which can lead to some confusion.

  • supernovia · Staff ·

    @wcfm2d6e7eab99a you’d be welcome to host here (here’s the difference) but I do want to point out Jetpack has a payment block that could work nicely for you:

    How to accept payments with the Jetpack Payments Block

    It’s a lot like the one we use here (powered by the same tech) and might be even easier than having a separate donations page here with us, though that is a valid option too (thank you @parkdanil!) You’d just want to make sure Jetpack is installed and connected.

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