Shameless Promotional Blog Post Ahead. . .

Here’s the deal: our service was initially conceived as a convenience fee-based service to help non-profits manage the cost of online donation processing.  The idea was that donors would pay their own processing costs, saving your organization a boatload of money.  As I may have testily mentioned, Mastercard changed their regulations so that convenience fees are no longer acceptable . . . except for government organizations and schools.

All our programming and design time on the old convenience-fee site is not for naught, because we now are  making our convenience fee service available to acceptable institutions.  In the case of Saddleback Children’s Center (no affiliation with Rick Warren’s church of the same name, btw), they’re using our service to collect tuition payments and donations.  Using our service will save them many thousands of dollars in processing costs per year, and the parents who are paying tuition understand that they’re helping relieve a financial burden on the school.  Our online application for this service is quick, easy and can save your school that theoretical boatload of cash.

Convenience-fee processing is also a great idea for municipalities and government organizations; in fact, we’ll soon be launching a whole site dedicated to providing this service, CityPay.   Cities can sign up to get DonationPay pages where their power users can pay utility bills online, make donations, or pay tickets.  Our convenience fee of $3.00 per $100.00 covers all processing costs, effectively saving your city from paying out a substantial percentage of your incoming monies.

Anyhow, thought I would let everyone know, that our convenience fee service is not fully dead- in fact, we’re seeing more and more interest in it now that it’s not available to absolutely everyone (and isn’t that always the way?).  If you are a qualifying organization, we can help you save a ton of money!

And, of course, if you’re simply a non-profit looking for an absolutely bill-free processing service, DonationPay is right for you.  We truly are excited to be able to offer such low-cost, comprehensive processing service to non-profits.  The amenities of our service far outweigh any others out there (custom-designed payment pages, easy management tools, great service, etc.).  Our service is by far the best available, especially for such a low cost; full-service processing like ours (PLUS, for pete’s sake, free design services), from our competitors like Network For Good, charge up to 5%, have massive set-up fees ($200.00 or more just to get started) and charge monthly fees.  We are quite a sweet deal, if I do say so myself, and our compulsively friendly and knowledgeable staff will do everything we can to get your organization the best rates available and provide the most enjoyable customer service experience.  All right, my pitch is over; I promise this blog will have only occasional flashes of blatant self promotion and, well, we can just chalk this up to one of those times.

To make up for it, here’s a video of the Wegman dogs baking bread:

Enjoy.

Filed under: DonationPay by AJ