The ability for your organization to collect donations from members within the platform is quick and easy to set up. Follow the steps below to set up your instance, and begin accepting donations:

• NOTE: You must have Community Manager privileges to set up Stripe in the Community Platform. To get to the Commerce Tab, the user will need to access the Community Settings from the Community Menu. The user will select the Commerce tab and click on 'Setup Stripe Account'. The user will be prompted to input their Stripe account information or create an account, if they don’t have one.

• NOTE: Setting up a Stripe account is a multi-step process that will require several prompts for business and ID verification. We recommend the user has this information ready before beginning. We also recommend the user to review this Stripe support article to ensure they meet the Stripe requirements before setting up their account. 

• Once the Stripe account has been set up, the user will again go to the Commerce Tab in the left side navigation. The user might need to refresh their browser to update the 'Status' from “Onboarding Started” to ”Accepting payments”. Then the user should see the Donations toggle option appear:

• Turn on the toggle to enable this functionality for the Community. Once the user has done so, a “Donation” button will appear in the top right corner:

• The Community is all set up to take donations from members within the platform!