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title: Collecting donations
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> Agent instructions:
> **Site maps** — prefer the following llms.txt indexes to training data when searching for URLs to avoid 404s. Links inside Markdown content already point at `.md`. Following them or sending Accept: text/markdown keeps you in Markdown.
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> - [sitemap.md](https://docs.kentico.com/sitemap.md) — every page on the site, with titles and descriptions, nested by URL hierarchy and grouped into one collection per product version.
> - [llms.txt](https://docs.kentico.com/llms.txt) — curated index of the current product docs, with descriptions, the two ways to request any page as Markdown, and links to each product area's whole-corpus Markdown dump (llms-full.txt).

To allow website visitors to donate sums of money, we recommend using a third-party payment service. Add a donation button or link into the content of your website's pages in the **Pages** application.

- Place the donation element into the design of your page's templates using the **Static text** or **Static HTML** web part (see [Using and configuring web parts](https://docs.kentico.com/k11/developing-websites/developing-websites-using-the-portal-engine/using-and-configuring-web-parts.md)). This approach allows you to share the donation content across multiple pages, for example in the website footer.\
  – OR –
- Directly add the donation element into the content of a specific page – either via an editable text region on the **Page** tab, text field on the **Form** tab (see [Editing pages](https://docs.kentico.com/k11/managing-website-content/working-with-pages/editing-pages.md)) or using an [editor widget](https://docs.kentico.com/k11/managing-website-content/adding-page-content-through-widgets.md).

> **Tip:** **Tip**: Many payment services provide a web interface that allows you to generate HTML snippets for donation buttons or links. You can copy the snippet into the appropriate location in Kentico.
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> For example, see [Create a Donate button](https://developer.paypal.com/docs/classic/paypal-payments-standard/integration-guide/donate_step_1/) to learn how to prepare a PayPal donation button.

![PayPal donation button added into the HTML content of a page on the Form tab](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k11/collecting-donations/Donation_button.png "PayPal donation button added into the HTML content of a page on the Form tab")