I'm building a website for a candidate, and he needs to be able to accept donations on his site.
For an instant example of what I'm interested in, check out http://kokeshforcongress.com ... I think he uses Drupal, but I could be wrong.
At the top right, they have a scale showing how many donations, and names of recent donors.
Go to the "contribute" page, and there is a page with a form to donate.
I need something similar to the "scale" and the "form", but I would settle for the "form". I have never built any sort of payment processor though and don't even know where to start. I assume you also need to have some sort of account with a credit card company?
I was looking through the Drupal e-commerce modules and am overwhelmed by the 228 choices using jargon I don't even understand. Can you recommend me modules or a guide that can get me started? Thank you!
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It is indeed a drupal site, but I couldn't see any obvious signs of which modules were used to create the donation page.
Though the number of ecommerce modules appears, at first glance, to be overwhelming-- you basically have 3 choices:
If you just need paypal processing, the lm_paypal module is probably the simplest to use. I've never used ecommerce, but I find the ubercart module suite and community (http://ubercart.org) to be very good.
There's also the http://civicrm.org distribution of drupal (it can also be used with joomla) which is aimed specifically at these types of sites.