Posted by admin on November 5, 2009 under Resources |
To begin, you will have to choose an email address to create your Paypal account under.
This email will be used to login to your account and to receive notification. Do not use a staff personal email address. We recommend using a generic address to which your accountant has access to such as: admin@mycompany.com
Creating your account
- Step 1: Click here to create your Account.
- Step 2: Choose your country and language, under the business box, click get started.
- Step 3: Select Website Payments Standard and follow the instruction to complete the process..
(Make sure to select Website Payments Standard. You DO NOT NEED a paypal pro account.)

Enable Instant Payment Notification Preferences (IPN)
DR*Pledge as well as Perfect Event Builder are fully integrated with paypal and will take care of everything regarding your transaction. In order to communicate back and forth with Paypal, your IPN setting needs to be enabled.
1. Click on “My Account” Tab at the top of the screen
2. Click on “profile” on the seceondary menu
3. Under ‘Selling preferences’ click on ‘ Instant Payment Notification preferences‘
4. Click on ‘Edit IPN Settings’ Button
5. In the notification URL type in “https://www.donationrelay.com” -or- “http://www.perfecteventbuilder.com” depending on the service you are using.
6. Select the ‘Receive IPN Messages (Enabled) open
7. Hit the ‘Save’ Button
Posted by admin on October 19, 2009 under Resources |
Whether you are starting a new charity, working for a large non-profit organization, college or a church, the question remains the same. HOW CAN WE RAISE MORE MONEY? HOW CAN WE FUNDRAISE EFFECTIVELY?
Digital Relay Inc. constantly works with clients who focus on how to raise charity money. We asked our most successful clients to share the secrets that made their fundraising events successful and insights into what are the most costly mistakes. Read more of this article »
Posted by admin on October 11, 2009 under Resources |
There isn’t a better time to dive into a website project. If you are in the swimming club business, the time is now! There are no secrets here, Perfect Event Builder can take care of your online registration and manage all your swimmers. DR*Pledge can help you raise hundreds of dollars more during your fundraising events! Now what? Well it gets better! Our generous Web Designing partners are giving away their some of their work to any new Digital Relay’s clients.
In other words: you can get a fully customized website, with flash animation, online registration and swimmer management, for only $399.99 plus GST. This includes design, upload of content and hosting.
How to qualify?
Easy! Create your FREE Perfect Event Builder account before October 31st and voila!
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Website #3
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Website #4
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Website #5
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*There are 6 websites left to choose from, first come first served.
**Limit of 1 site per client
***Ask one of our reps for compatibility with Perfect Event Builder
Posted by admin on September 2, 2009 under Resources |
About SSL
Although online shopping is increasingly pervasive, millions of potential customers still balk at releasing their credit card numbers to online entities. Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificates on Web sites provide an effective, reliable and visible method of securing sensitive customer information. An SSL certificate ensures customers that online transactions on SSL-secured sites indeed are safe. Read more of this article »
Posted by admin on June 10, 2009 under Resources |
Does a pledging site really increase contributions?
In June 2006, the Alzheimer Society of Manitoba used DR*Pledge software for the very first time… the 2006 Memory Walk event raised a record breaking $135,000.00.
In some cases, leveraging online personal page allows participants raise over 500% of their traditional contributions for a single event.
Case study available up on request.
Read more of this article »
Posted by admin on April 9, 2009 under Resources |
Philanthropy is based on voluntary action for the common good. It is a tradition of giving and sharing that is primary to the quality of life. To assure that philanthropy merits the respect and trust of the general public, and that donors and prospective donors can have full confidence in the not-for-profit organizations and causes they are asked to support, we declare that all donors have these rights:
1. To be informed of the organization’s mission, of the way the organization intends to use donated resources, and of its capacity to use donations effectively for their intended purposes.
Read more of this article »
Posted by admin on March 18, 2009 under Resources |
If you are part of a charity organization, you may have noticed the recent trend of offering online donation. You may hesitate to follow suit with your charity because you believe going online is too impersonal, too unsafe, and too complicated. Yet, withholding from this trend only hurts your charity’s prospects, as more people in history are donating to charities because of online donation’s visibility, convenience and security. Read more of this article »
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If you are a charity or a nonprofit, you will find that there are many instances where you are going to be handing the private information of your contributors and donors. This information can run the gamut from personal contact information to payment details, and one thing that you have to do is to make absolutely sure that this information stays in the right hands! Not only is the financial safety and privacy of the people who have been generous to you and your organization on the line, your professional reputation is too, and this is where you are going to run into the question of whether you want host your donors’ information online or whether you want to keep it locally. Read more of this article »
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The purpose of this checklist is to help charities understand their GST/HST obligations and entitlements. Any questions regarding the content below should be directed to the CRA Business Windows Section at 1-800-959-5525.
Checklist
1) Determine if your organization is a charity for GST/HST purposes.
A registered charity for income tax purposes is Read more of this article »