Which charities will accept tiny donations online by credit card?

jan_altus

Occasionally I do odd bits of market research and get "paid" expenses via Digital Wallet credit cards. These payments are for set small amounts of money and with strict expiry dates.



As the expiry date approaches I'm often left with credit card credits for a few pounds or even just a few pence - too small to buy anything useful with (online) and I'd like to donate it to charity (rather than let it expire and thus line the pockets of Digital Wallet/prepaiddigitalsolutions).



Yet, when I try to donate to charities, the funds appear to be rejected (on the grounds that they are too small).



I wish an enterprising charity would set up a facility to accept this tiny digital pennies* online. Anyone aware of one already?



* Funnily enough, Digital Pennies doesn't accept funds this way.

00ec25

clearly you have not appreciated that the bank charges for accepting money can be so large they would not cover the pennies donation. No point receiving 5p donation if it costs 5p in charges.


The £2 per month TV adverts from the big charities are barely break even activities for them and are intended mainly to raise awareness, not money. Obviously once they have you, they then encourage you to up the anti to the point they do start to "make" money

nmn

Try and find a real life POS that accepts contactless - assuming you can put these cards on your phone & use Google/apple pay it should be the cheapest way for any merchant to take the money from them; and worthwhile still even for amounts under £1.


Don't forget your receipt!