I second, third, and fourth Fastnet's comment. After using a PayPal hosted button for a couple of years to accept donations on a small community organization website, I was asked to look into an option for accepting Venmo payments as well. As the organization isn't eligible for a Venmo account, my research indicated that the solution was to integrate it with PayPal by using a so-called "smart" button. Seemed easy enough - at first. I've done web dev and some light coding for many years, and TBH I am lost. It's a Wordpress site, and I'm trying to glean from PayPal's convoluted instructions (which send me to GitHub with more convoluted instructions) what I need to install on the site and what files and code to update to implement the smart button, and it's been a nightmare. It's not an e-commerce site, so we don't need or want to install WooCommerce for just one button, and the one other plugin that might have the built-in components necessary is not compatible with the older version of WP we have to use so that certain other important legacy plugins continue to work. Another option that I just learned about that included a PayPal/Venmo QR code and which actually would have been perfect for our needs - PayPal Here - was discontinued about a month ago. That figures. 😐 Well, I guess I'm glad we didn't come to rely on that only for it to be yanked just as we're going into our active fundraising season for the holidays. It took me many years to convince this organization that they should be taking online donations with PayPal as well as in-person contributions. The pandemic was the final push needed to include contactless payments. Now, we're trying to expand that but the learning curve to figure out how to just add a button is holding this up. We don't have a lot of resources to hire a team of developers and I'm trying to do this on the cheap for them as it is. Some generic "PayPal Smart Buttons for Dummies" instructions would really be great! With Wordpress being such a common platform, you'd think there would at least be some instructions for that, but no. I've been scouring the community board to see if anyone else has found a simple solution to this without any luck.
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