SOAR

This guide will walk you through the steps required to use images/graphics effectively within your website.

This guide will primarily focus on adding graphics to content through the Rich Text Editor - i.e Announcements, Events, and Custom Pages.

This section contains tutorials on how to accomplish specific tasks.

Each time a member clicks an Add To Cart button, their item will be added to the shopping cart within your SOAR website. Once there items in a member's shopping cart, a "View Cart" button will display in the User Block in the top left of the page.

When they click the "View Cart" button they will be taken to the shopping cart page where they will see the items they have added. They can delete individual items from the shopping cart.

When they are ready to checkout, members will use the "Checkout" button on the shopping cart page. This will transfer their shopping cart to PayPal and they will be taken to the PayPal page for your unit to complete the transaction.

After you have created your PayPal account and followed the PayPal Account Setup instructions you can enable Online Payments on your SOAR website.

Go to Admin/Control Panel/Online Payments/Setup to get started.

• Click the Enable checkbox to make this feature active.
• Enter & verify (enter a 2nd time) your PayPal email address
• Make sure this email address is correct, otherwise you may be sending money to someone else !
• Enter the label that will be shown in the Navigation for the Online Payments page
• Enter any instructions you want displayed at the top of the Online Payments page
  

When setting up a PayPal account:

• Select Business account – not Personal or Premier
• Select PayPal Payments Standard – not PayPal Payments Pro
• Enter your email address and contact information
• Select Business Type – DO NOT select Non Profit Organization
  • The business type you select should match the Tax ID number of your organization's bank account
• Select a Category – not Non-Profit
• Select a Subcategory
• Select lowest Monthly Sales
• Enter your Tax ID number

PayPal has a specific account type for non profit organizations that caters to online collection of donations at a reduced transaction fee. To qualify for this account type the majority of your online payments need to be of the donation type and you need to provide PayPal with a lot of paperwork to prove non profit status. Most organizations will not qualify for this so you want to avoid it.

This section will contain self contained Feature Guides for various subjects in downloadable (and printable) format.

• Calendar Sync
  Covers how to setup, configure, and manage the Calendar Sync feature of your SOAR website which allows members to subscribe to your website calendar and automatically receive updates to your calendar.

• Event Registration
  Covers how to setup, configure, and manage the Event Signup feature of your SOAR website to enable members to register and pay for events online.

SOAR has looked into providing a text messaging feature for your website service. What we found is that providing a text messaging feature is technically possible. At the same time we found the only way to guarantee delivery of text messages was to go through a 3rd party "aggregator" who charges a per message fee for their service. We decided for business reasons we did not want to get into a "per" anything pricing model with customers.

Many customers bring up alternatives that and we'd like to take the opportunity to explain in detail.

• Your own cell phone
  • You can text multiple people at a time on your cell phone.
    

The Online Payment feature is available in the Advanced package and allows organizations to collect payment online via credit cards and PayPal accounts for items such as yearly registration fees, event fees, and other items.

To use this feature, please follow these steps.

1. Create a PayPal Business account with Website Payments Standard at www.paypal.com.
2. Link your PayPal Business account to your checking account and get it verified.
3. Follow the PayPal Account Setup instructions below.
4. Go to Admin/Control Panel/Online Payments/Setup to enter your PayPal information.
   

You can select the number of events that will be shown in the Upcoming Events section of the Home Page.

This feature is accessible at Administration/Control Panel/Features.

The EBlast Now feature will immediately send out an EBlast. It can be found at Administration/Email/EBlast/EBlast Now.

This function can be used in the following ways.

• If you do not want to have weekly scheduled EBlasts, you can use this feature to manually determine when to send out an EBlast.
• If you have weekly EBlasts scheduled but want to send out a notice of new content on the website before the next scheduled EBlast. There are also options for how an EBlast Now will affect your next scheduled EBlast.