To allow your site visitors to sponsor an animal, you must first enable the Sponsorships feature. Once Sponsorships are enabled and Allow Sponsorship is selected for a pet, the link to Sponsor This Pet will appear on the pet’s web page.

Enable Sponsorships

To enable sponsorships, next to Animal Sponsorships, select Enabled.

In order to use the sponsorship feature your site will need to set up your PayPal account. See the chapter, Adding PayPal, Facebook, or other affiliate vendors to your website. A PayPal business account is required to use recurring payments.

Select an Option for Sponsorship Link Page

Select one of the following for each animal Sponsor this Pet link

Use a general sponsorship page:

If Use a general sponsorship page is selected, the link to sponsor a specific pet will take a user to your site's general sponsorship information page.
When a donation is processed, it will not have the name of the animal.

If you choose this option, be sure to add content to your web site's general sponsorship page with how to donate/sponsor. You will find that page in your Web Pages List > Sponsorship Information.

If you select: Use a sponsorship page for each animal:

If Use a sponsorship page for each animal is selected, when a user clicks on the Sponsor this Pet link on the animal's page, it will take the user to a page specific to that animal and its unique sponsorship options. When the donation is processed in PayPal, you will see that the sponsorship was for that specific animal.

Next fill out the remaining options and click Save Settings.

You can select Allow Sponsorship regardless of the status of the pet; although if you want the public to be able to see the pet you’ll want to select either Available for Adoption or Available for Sponsorship (only certain animal statuses are public, regardless of the Allow Sponsorship option – see the chapter Managing animal status for more information). For more information about specific Sponsorship fields, see the chapter About animal fields.

The Sponsorship Feature on Your Website

Once Sponsorships are enabled and Allow Sponsorship is selected for a pet, the link to Sponsor This Pet will appear on the pet’s web page.

If you selected Use a sponsorship page for each animal, that link will take the visitor to the pet’s specific Sponsorship Page which will show:

A photo of the pet (if uploaded)
The pet’s description or Sponsorship Details.

From that page, the visitor can choose to make a one-time sponsorship or a recurring sponsorship. (You must have those options enabled.) Your predetermined sponsorship amounts will be shown, as well as a custom sponsorship box if you have enabled custom sponsorship amounts.

After selecting the sponsorship options (one-time or recurring), the visitor can enter their contact information and the purpose and note concerning the sponsorship.

NOTE

If a donor chooses to make a recurring sponsorship, they can set up a recurring PayPal donation. Your organization enters the amount each time the donation is received. The recurring sponsorship allows the donor to make this recurring payment in PayPal.

On the sponsorship checkout page, the visitor can review the sponsorship details, and click Add to PayPal Cart when they are ready to check out. The rest of the Sponsorship process is completed by PayPal.

Confirming Sponsorships

You can view all of your existing Sponsorships, as well as the Unconfirmed Sponsorships on the Animals > Sponsorships page. An unconfirmed sponsorship is one that was entered by a visitor, but you have not yet confirmed you received the payment.

NOTE

You must confirm sponsorships once the payment is received.

When you confirm a new Sponsorship, you can edit the amount, type, purpose, purpose details and the state and end date of the sponsorship. Confirming or adding a sponsorship also adds a donation associated with the contact.

From that page, you can also manually add sponsorships if needed