New and improved PayPal integration for LGL Forms

Little Green Light has built a new integration for using PayPal as your payment processor in LGL Forms. The PayPal Complete Payments integration uses a completely new and improved platform provided by PayPal and provides three big benefits for LGL Forms users.

Benefit #1: New PayPal integration supports recurring donations

Unlike our previous integration with PayPal, this new PayPal integration supports credit card payments for recurring donations. In the past, recurring donations required the donor to use their PayPal account.

Benefit #2: PayPal Complete Payments includes Venmo as a payment option

This new PayPal integration includes Venmo as a payment option. This means a donor (or event registrant) can complete the payment step for your LGL Forms in their Venmo app.

Benefit #3: GooglePay is now available as a checkout option

The new PayPal integration includes Google Pay as a checkout option. This option is only available for one-time payments, not for recurring payments, and it also requires the payer to be logged into a Chrome browser or to be using an Android device.

Using PayPal Complete Payments in LGL Forms

PayPal Complete Payments is now available in all LGL Forms accounts. If you go to set up a new payment processor in your LGL Forms account and you select the PayPal option, then you will in fact be using the PayPal Complete Payments integration. See our Knowledge Base article on how to set this up.

PayPal Complete Payments is a separate integration altogether from our earlier PayPal integration, so if you currently use PayPal in LGL Forms you will need to actively add this new connected payment processor in your LGL Forms account. Once you’ve added this new PayPal integration, you can then update your forms so they use this new version going forward instead of the older version.

Using Stripe in combination with PayPal

To offer your online donors the maximum number of payment options in your LGL forms, we recommend integrating your LGL Forms account with both a Stripe account and a PayPal account.

When you use the combination of Stripe and PayPal in an LGL form, you can offer all of the checkout options available in LGL Forms: Credit card, Google Pay, Apple Pay, ACH, PayPal, and Venmo.

Read more about using Stripe in combination with PayPal in LGL forms in our Knowledge Base article.