Credit Card Donations from PowerPAC or Mobile PAC

When you enable credit card donations from PowerPAC and/or Mobile PAC, the list of receiving organizations is limited to those with credit card processing enabled. When a patron makes a donation, the receiving organization's credit card settings are applied. If the connection organization is a branch, and that branch has enabled credit card processing and donations, the donation can be made to that branch only. However, if the PAC connection organization is the library system, and donations are not enabled at the system level, a donation can still be made to any library or branch that accepts donations.

Enabling donations - Use the Credit Card Payment parameter Online Payments: Configure for your organization. Select your e-commerce provider in the Payment processing gateway list, and select the PowerPAC tab in the Online Payment Settings dialog box. Select Allow donations. Repeat using the Mobile PAC tab, if appropriate. For specific instructions, see Credit Card Payments from PowerPAC or Mobile PAC and select the link for your e-commerce provider.
Donation branch order in PAC - In the PAC, the patron chooses a branch from a list when making a donation. The branch display order is controlled in PAC Administration. See Set up basic operating features for Polaris PowerPAC.
Suppressing a branch from the donation branch list - Use the system-level PAC profile Suppress branches to prevent a branch from appearing in the list. For Polaris PowerPAC, this profile also suppresses the selected branches from the connection branch list (Switch to another branch), the list of branches on the Search Options scoping page, and the list of branches on the Advanced Search scoping page. For Mobile PAC, the profile suppresses the branch from the drop-down lists on the Library Hours and Preferences pages.

Important:
The donation Web part appears in the PowerPAC dashboard when you assign it to the page. Be sure to assign the donation Web part to the pages where you want it to appear. See Assign Web parts to public pages. To display the donation link in Mobile PAC, set the Mobile PAC profile Navigation: Donations to Yes.

Using Google's reCAPTCHA on the PAC Donations Page

Libraries that use PayPal Payflow Pro for credit card payments through Polaris PowerPAC or Mobile PAC can enable Google's free reCAPTCHA feature, which adds human verification to the process of submitting a donation to the library. This minimizes the possibility of a robotic "user" making many small fake donations to the library to verify stolen credit card information. Genuine donors identify a picture or select I'm not a robot to continue with the donation process. For more information about reCAPTCHA, see https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/index.html.