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How to Upgrade Your Church Website Plan at SteepleSites.com

Thursday, October 15th, 2009

Now that you can upgrade or downgrade your SteepleSites.com account through your website manager, we thought it would be good to give you specific instructions on how to do so. Follow the steps below to upgrade your SteepleSites.com church website account.

Step 1:

After logging in, hover over the WEBSITE button at the top of your admin screen and select BILLING.

Step 2:

Select a new plan by clicking UPGRADE in the appropriate column.

Step 3:

Enter your personal information, payment method, and billing address and click UPDATE INFORMATION at the bottom.

That’s it. If you have any questions about billing, contact us at SteepleSites.com/contact.

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How to add online giving to your church website

Friday, April 24th, 2009

UPDATE: Our sister site, MinistryPath.com, now has online giving with PayPal built in. All you have to do is enter your PayPal email address and the rest is automatic! It’s super easy…check it out!

Love ‘em or hate ‘em, PayPal has a great solution for accepting donations or offerings on your church website. You don’t pay any signup fees or monthly fees, so it only costs you money when someone actually makes the gift. PayPal takes about 3% of the gift, so I can understand if this solution is not for you, but many churches provide this to their members for a lot of different reasons – reasons we won’t get into right now.

This post will show you how to easily add an “Online Giving” module to your church website using the payment processor PayPal. See an example here before you get started.

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Tags: online giving, paypal offering
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How to add sermons to your church website using Sermon.net

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

UPDATE: Our sister site, MinistryPath.com, now has websites for churches with the sermon.net sermon player built it. Now your sermons will automatically be posted to your website’s sermons page instantly! Check it out.

Sermon.net offers a wonderful free service to churches. They give you unlimited storage and bandwidth for your sermons, along with an awesome flash-based sermon player for your website. In this post, I’ll cover how to get your free sermon.net account, how to upload a sermon, and 2 different ways to add your sermons to your church website.

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Tags: church podcasting, church podcasts, church website sermons, sermons
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