Connect external accounts

You can connect social media accounts to automatically thank new financial contributors

Connecting a Twitter account

Click on Connect Twitter. You will be prompted to either directly authorize Donate PR to access your account or to log in and authorize it.

Connecting your account will provide you a few automation options based on how many financial contributors Communities you host have reached:

Options for activating automated tweets whenever a Community you host reach 10, 100 and 1,000 financial contributors.

To use a template parameter, put it in brackets like this: {collective}. Here are the parameters supported by each template:

Parameter
Templates
Description
Example

backerTwitterHandle

New financial contributors

Twitter Handle of the contributor without the @ prefix (can be empty)

myUsername

amount

New financial contributors

Contribution amount with the currency

$10.00

collective

Ten contributors Fifty contributors One hundred contributors

Either the community name or, if set, the Twitter handle prefixed with an @

@babel

topBackersTwitterHandles

Ten contributors

Top 10 contributors names or handles

Facebook, @airbnb, company3, joe, @anotherAccount, anotherAccount2, anotherAccount3, anotherAccount4, anotherAccount5, anotherAccount6, +6

Receiving contributions through PayPal

This feature is currently in beta, meaning it's still being tested. To turn on PayPal contributions, email support.

Fees

Payment processor fees charged by PayPal will be automatically deducted. If any platform tips or platform share is paid through PayPal, it will go to your account and will be paid later, via the monthly settlement expense.

Connecting PayPal

If you're already in the beta test group, you can follow these instructions:

To receive contributions, enable "Accept payments" and "Transactions search"

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