WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Fundraising / Selling from wordpress.com blogs (terms of service) http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/fundraising-selling-from-wordpresscom-blogs-terms-of-service WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Fundraising / Selling from wordpress.com blogs (terms of service) en Wed, 22 May 2013 08:01:49 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 kardotim on "Fundraising / Selling from wordpress.com blogs (terms of service)" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/fundraising-selling-from-wordpresscom-blogs-terms-of-service#post-1063172 Wed, 07 Nov 2012 14:49:00 +0000 kardotim 1063172@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Please take a look at links 'thistimethisspace' posted as those exactly explain what's allowed and what isn't.

As for fundraising I recommend using the PayPal Donate Button.

If you have more questions about our Terms of Service, please contact us by e-mail.

]]> 1tess on "Fundraising / Selling from wordpress.com blogs (terms of service)" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/fundraising-selling-from-wordpresscom-blogs-terms-of-service#post-1062960 Wed, 07 Nov 2012 06:06:40 +0000 1tess 1062960@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ As for fundraising for a non-profit, I run a blog for work at a federally recognized 501 (c3) not for profit organization. I have a paypal donation button prominently displayed on the sidebar of the blog. (ok, no one has yet used it…) I link to our hosted website as well, and people have used the paypal button on there. The blog, though, is filled with how-to-do ideas, interesting people, and recycled/re-useable materials we sell, workshops we offer. I did ask the ToS folks here before starting the blog and got a positive answer. I'm not sure how one asks a direct question to them now…

]]> thistimethisspace on "Fundraising / Selling from wordpress.com blogs (terms of service)" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/fundraising-selling-from-wordpresscom-blogs-terms-of-service#post-1062949 Wed, 07 Nov 2012 05:46:20 +0000 thistimethisspace 1062949@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Aside from a blog being accepted into WordAds http://www.wordads.co/ no blogger initiated advertising, retailing or reselling the work or products created or services provided by anyone other than yourself is allowed on free hosted wordpress.com blogs. E-commerce transactions via shopping carts and the like cannot be conducted on free blogs from and being free hosted by wordpress.com
http://en.support.wordpress.com/advertising/
http://en.wordpress.com/types-of-blogs/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/affiliate-links/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/suspended-blogs/
http://en.wordpress.com/tos/

On free hosted WordPress.com blog we can use a contact form and/or a PayPal donation button for sale of only products or services created or provided by ourselves.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/paypal/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact-form/

If you require an ecommerce site, advertising and/or affiliate links you can hire a web host and get a free software install from http://wordpress.org Refer to > http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

]]> butterflylessons on "Fundraising / Selling from wordpress.com blogs (terms of service)" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/fundraising-selling-from-wordpresscom-blogs-terms-of-service#post-1062927 Wed, 07 Nov 2012 04:42:58 +0000 butterflylessons 1062927@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I have a current blog and was thinking about selling items from the page. Is that allowed?

Also, I am working with a non-profit to set up a webpage using wordpress.com. Is it possible for them to fundraise from this platform?

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