Alternatives to Just Giving?

Bob63

Anyone know of a cheaper alternative to Just Giving? They are obviously a market leader in what they do, but their convenience comes at a price - £15/month+VAT plus the card handling fees.

We have some people who want to do a sponsored event for our charity and would love to setup online giving. If necessary we will go with Just Giving but would love to know of alternatives that would save us money.

GiveItBack

everyclick have just started doing this. They're cheaper than JG, but don't know how good their service will be, but might be worth a look.

ahai1

The service looks promising.

Bob63

GiveItBack wrote: »

everyclick have just started doing this. They're cheaper than JG, but don't know how good their service will be, but might be worth a look.

Great find. Everyclick is backed up by Charities Trust. Their fees are *much* better than JustGiving.

JG take £15/month+VAT, 5% of every donation and also add on the credit/debit card handling fees.

Everyclick/Charities Trust take just 4.8% with no monthly fees and this includes the credit/debit card fees.

Bob63

Bmycharity is another alternative, slightly lower cost transactions than JG, no monthly fee, but they do charge a £150 setup fee!

http://www.bmycharity.com/pay_as_you_go.aspx

Everyclick still looks like the best option. Anyone else with suggestions?

Savvy_Sue

My Charity Page - going longer than EveryClick, free basic service for charities, you pay more for more detailed reports, IIRC.

louise_1981

could you not just add the charities paypal email address, just as easy and convenient, and probably a lot cheaper, although it does rely on others having a paypal account

Bob63

louise_1981 wrote: »

could you not just add the charities paypal email address, just as easy and convenient, and probably a lot cheaper, although it does rely on others having a paypal account

We do that already, and pick up quite a few donations from people who have the odd funds lying in their paypal account. What I was really looking for was something that facilitated donations and, like JG, provided an event sponsorship portal. We are now signed up with Everyclick and so far things look good. We won't be dropping PayPal either as that's still a nice way to get funds (whatever you think of PayPal's charges!)

AJ73

cheesy.mike wrote: »

Anyone know of a cheaper alternative to Just Giving? They are obviously a market leader in what they do, but their convenience comes at a price - £15/month+VAT plus the card handling fees.

We signed up to Just Giving last year and the cost was an issue, but I have to say it was one of the best decisions we made. It is high profile, easy to use and we have even had people sign up and raise money for us that had not come through our charity previosuly.

I would recommend Just Giving, despite the cost.

All that said, I came across this website this week that does exactly the same thing with no setup or monthly costs for charities, and non profits are due to be added later in the year. www.help.co.uk

I do have concerns about help.co.uk though, all charities are added there was no opt in. So I emailed asking what happens if someone donates to our charity, and they claim they send a cheque to the official charity address. But, we only have their word that they pass donations on. I was also alarmed at an unprofessional comment in the email that was clearly aimed at Just Giving (See below).

Our service (unlike some others), gives you full control online for FREE! It’s more important to us that the charity is getting the most out of help.co.uk, and not the other way around.

Help.co.uk does look ok, but for now we are sticking with Just Giving.

Hope this helps.

ahai1

Charities Trust are a charity and thus are not allowed to make a profit. http://www.charitiestrust.org/content/about_us/about_charities_trust/index.html

savemoneygirl

A new UK online charity www.globalgiving.co.uk offers a gift registry service where by you can ask friends/sponsors to give money to the cause of your choice. They have no start up fee for a charity and take 10% of a donation(to cover credit card trans/admin etc).