You can add a donate button to your church's homepage if you want to. You can set up this in the 'Marketplace'.
What will it look like?
It will look something like this if your online giving provider is Give a Little. There is a choice of amounts and buttons for one off and regular giving:
If will look something like this if your online giving provider is not Give a Little. There is a single 'Donate' button:
You can't change the text on the buttons, but you can change the other text on the tile, during the set up.
How do I set it up?
1. Open your church in editor view, so you can see the editor menu. Show me how.
2. Choose 'Marketplace' in the editor menu.
3. Click or tap the slider next to 'Enable online donations'.
Nothing will appear on your church homepage until you have configured donations (next step).
4. Once you have the slider on, another button will appear saying 'Configure donations'. Click or tap that.
5. Choose an option
Option 1: Give a Little
If your online giving provider is Give a Little, choose 'Connect to Give a Little' and then click 'Connect now'. Then follow the onscreen instructions. You will be returned to AChurchNearYou.com when this process is complete.
Please note, you need both a Give a Little account, connected with either a SumUp or Stripe account, already set up to be able to connect through to AChurchNearYou.com successfully. If you do not have a Give a Little account, it is free, quick, and easy to set one up. You can find out more and create an account here.
Option 2: Add a link
If you use any other online giving provider, choose 'use a custom donation URL', paste a link into the Online donation URL box.
6. Save, or change default text and save.
In either case, you can then press save. Or, if you want to overwrite the default text that will appear on your online giving tile on your homepage, you can do that before you press save, if you want.
As default the tile that appears on your church's homepage will say, 'Give now, Support our ministry and mission'.
Troubleshooting
Tip: If you connect with GAL then switch to a custom URL, or vice versa, but it's not working right, go back to the Donations tile on the Marketplace, and toggle the ‘enable donations’ slider on the Marketplace tile off and then on again. This effectively 'resets' the connection. You can also try this way of resetting if you have accidently connected with GAL to the wrong church.
Need more help?
If you are having trouble logging into AChurchNearYou.com, or with any aspect of your AChurchNearYou.com page, you can contact us.
If you have a question about your Give a Little online giving page, get in touch with Give a Little by emailing hello@givealittle.co.
For any other enquiries, you can contact the National Giving Team by emailing giving@churchofengland.org.
Diocese in Europe: There are several ways a chaplaincy can set up online giving, which can then link to your online giving tile on your AChurchNearYou.com homepage. For more information please visit the Online giving page on the Diocese in Europe website.