You can use Paypal for gift store stuff (we don't do this yet, although
other sites certainly do).  Also - we use an organization called
www.networkforgood.com to make on-line donations possible for visitors to
our site. You can take a look at our site to see how it works. So far no one
has taken us up on it. :) I think that on-line donations have more to do
with your off-line marketing than people stumbling across your web site
(unless the pitch is really effective - one I've noticed is
http://www.civilwarmed.org/fundraising.cfm).

By far the more successful idea is using paypal for a mail-in gift shop.
Plenty of people who don't really want to come by the museum are happy to
purchase our books by mail-order. Right now that mostly means e-mailing us,
getting a total, mailing a check, and then receiving their stuff. Someday we
will do Paypal.

Good luck!
Erica

Erica S. Maniez
Museum Director, Issaquah Historical Society
425/392-3500
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www.issaquahhistory.org

>
> --- Valerie Schafer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > Hello listers,
> >
> > I am considering trying to create some sort of way
> > for people visiting our website to donate online, or
> > to buy things from our 'store' online.
>

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