Instructions for Paying Membership Dues and Gifts Using a PayPal

Members in the United States, Canada, Mexico, most of Western Europe, India, and Japan may now pay membership dues and gifts using a credit card via the web-based money transfer service PayPal. To pay for your AWSS membership using PayPal, please follow these instructions.

  1. Go to PayPal.
  2. If you are not a member of PayPal, you will have to sign up before you can use the service. This will include either using a credit card on the web, or registering a bank account. To sign up, click on Sign Up for your FREE PayPal account! Follow the instructions to sign up and activate your account. NB -- if you would like the AWSS to get a $5 bonus (this will cost you nothing) type "slsmith@umn.edu" where it asks for the email of who referred you. (Please note that the second letter is "L," not the number "1").
  3. Once you have activated your membership, from the main PayPal page, click on Send Money. In the space for Recipient's Email type "slsmith@umn.edu" (please note that the second letter is "L," not the number "1"). In the space for Amount, put in your TOTAL from the membership form. In the space for Type, select "service." In Subject, put in "AWSS Payment." In Note, please put your name, and any message that you have regarding this payment.
  4. On the next page, verify your payment details. At the bottom of the page, under Shipping Information, you can choose "No shipping address required" - however, if there is a change of address on your membership form, you may wish to choose "ship to" and type in your new address. Click on Send Money. you will receive an email notification about the payment.
  5. After you have made the electronic payment, you must still fill out the membership form and return it to Susannah Smith (3200 46th Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55406) or send all the information requested on the form to Susannah via email at smith@hist.umn.edu. Without the information on this form, we cannot process your membership information.

PLEASE NOTE: The e-mail address "slsmith@umn.edu" is being used exclusively for AWSS activity. All funds posted to the "slsmith@umn.edu" address will go exclusively to the Association for the Women in Slavic Studies. When you are logged on to PayPal, please do not use Susannah's personal email address, "smith@hist.umn.edu," because this will result in funds being posted to Susannah's account and not to the AWSS.

If you have any questions, please contact Susannah at smith@hist.umn.edu.

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Last Modified: 25 October 2002