Title: Multiple fundraisers
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Multiple fundraisers

 *  [Troycules](https://wordpress.org/support/users/troycules/)
 * (@troycules)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-fundraisers/)
 * I have several income sources in PayPal for my charity.
 * I want to run a thermometer of funds raised for a single event — I don’t want
   my total PayPal income counted. Rather, I want to show how much was donated/raised
   for one particular fundraiser.
 * Is this possible using this plug-in?
 * For example, I might have a donate button on that page for the fundraiser. I 
   would like to count ONLY money donated using that button (and maybe manually 
   add some using existing features).
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/olimometer/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/olimometer/)

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 *  Plugin Author [oshingler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oshingler/)
 * (@oshingler)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-fundraisers/#post-4616363)
 * I’m afraid that this isn’t possible with my plugin, it can only monitor the values
   exposed by the PayPal API, which is sadly just the account balance.
 *  [bobsie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bobsie/)
 * (@bobsie)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-fundraisers/#post-4616494)
 * I see this issue – of distinguishing one fund from another – has come up a few
   times on this forum, for websites which have more than one donation stream to
   a single Paypal account.
 * If the ItemID field was exposed on the API such that you could get the balance/
   totals on a specific ItemID this would presumably be sufficient. (It’s how we
   disaggregate general donations from donations to specific funds when doing the
   accounting.)
 * But it seems it’s not exposed on the API!
 * oshingler, could there be another way of doing it? Instead of looking at the 
   account balance for the overall account, could there be an option for a given
   oliometer to keep track of donations made through specific buttons? All the other
   options would presumably be untouched – you still need offline donation values
   and total values and starting values etc. But instead of grabbing the account
   total the plugin would keep track of donations made through the button? (but 
   maybe that’s not possible either?)
 * It’s a real bugbear for Paypal (and by consequence means this and other plugins
   simply aren’t compatible with the way Paypal itself is meant to work – that you
   can have different ItemIDs for different income streams.)
 *  Plugin Author [oshingler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oshingler/)
 * (@oshingler)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-fundraisers/#post-4616495)
 * Hi,
 * Yes it would be possible to keep track of donations made via the buttons, but
   this would require a significant effort to turn the relatively simple thermometer
   plugin into a full on fundraising plugin. It certainly won’t happen in the short-
   term, but I won’t rule out ripping the code apart to implement something like
   this in the future.
 *  [bobsie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bobsie/)
 * (@bobsie)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-fundraisers/#post-4616496)
 * Cool, thanks.
    If it’s any help, note that it’s presumably mostly non-profits
   and other organizations that want to keep track of multiple funds, so would probably
   pay for a “pro” version of the plug-in that did this.

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-fundraisers/#post-4616496)
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