CiviCRM Community Forums (archive)

Hey there,

Have you seen the contribution widget?

e.g. http://drupal.demo.civicrm.org/civicrm/admin/contribute/widget?reset=1&action=update&id=1

It was built for this purpose.  Not exactly embedded, but it is the recommended way to allow people to advertise your contribution page on another website...

Well, that is kind of the point of civicrm, that it exists on your own website and is not a separate service. Sounds like you have a special situation though.

iFrame or other embed solutions will likely result in SSL issues, no?

Some sort of customization of this would be nice, like an intermediary step from an insecure embedded HTML form that passes contribution amount to an SSL secured Civi installation where users confirm amount and provide payment details... Especially in situations where a group may be providing solutions to clients via CiviCRM.

At the same time, prettified URLs would help me with this situation, and would require me to fret less about integration.

In the end, I'll likely need to get coding

Hi,

We had one case with an event with a separate site (different from the civicrm one). I tried using iframe and/or ajax and snippet=1 (to skip the crm layout and get only the form) and got stuck on the payment part.

In the end, the solution was to change the template of the main site for this specific event to mimic the mini site of the event layout (it's quite easy in civi to create specific layout for specific events or donations).

We are facing a similar issue and need to find a solution to embed a contribution form in another website. A non-profit has an existing website with a donation form and payment gateway (say at abc.com). The website (abc.com) is not based on Joomla, Drupal or WordPress and they do not want to change the site. However they would like to use CiviCRM for donation data collection and reporting. CiviCRM (with Joomla) is hosted on a separate server (say at xyz.com).

The problem:
To create a standard donation form (fields like name, email, billing address and donation amount) that is hosted on abc.com which communicates with the CiviCRM at xyz.com to create a new contribution entry. The form can behave like a normal contribution page and all donations can be kept in pending status (can be manually changed later).

The second part of the problem is to send the donation form variables to a payment gateway (without full payment gateway integration with CiviCRM). Anyway in this case the payment gateway is domain-specific and will work only at abc.com and not at xyz.com.

Please suggest how this issue can be solved. If any developer needs to do some custom coding, then we can fund the project.
Thanks a lot!

Thanks Lobo.

Even if we change the CiviCRM hosting, a part of the problem will still remain. The payment gateway that the non-profit is using is not supported by CiviCRM. They do not have the budget to get the full payment processor integration done now. So we thought that an alternate option could be a simple contribution form (with fields like name, email, donation amount) that takes this information and creates a contribution record in CiviCRM. All donations will be kept in pending status and updated manually after checking the admin panel provided by the payment gateway.

How can we create such a simple form that takes this data and saves it in CiviCRM? A contribution page with a dummy processor didn't fully work because we need to send the form data to the payment gateway. No data will be returned to CiviCRM by the payment gateway (the payment process will remain same). This solution can help non-profits to use CiviCRM even if their payment gateway is not supported.
 

I agree with you Lobo. But we have not been able to find a simpler solution.

This non-profit is based in India. Due to different financial regulations, Indian non-profits are not able to use Paypal, Google Checkout or Authorize.net. So various NGOs use payment gateways provided by different providers/banks. Multiple extensions for the different payment gateways have to be created for complete integration. This is a costly proposition and has led to low usage of CiviCRM in India (though India has the largest number of non-profits in the world).