Quidco as a school fundraiser?

Tizz

Hi, I've been fortunate to have a successful year on Quidco (about £500) and it occurred to me that there are loads of mums at school who mail order from lots of the shops on Quidco (Boden, White Shop, M&S, John Lewis) but probably wouldn't bother with running a Quidco account (there's no convincing some people!) so I wondered - would Quidco let me set up another account (with another email address) which I could then give out the password and username to all the parents (I'm thinking - handing out some sort of sticky note to attach near computer) and asking (begging) if anyone is ordering anything to please go through this Quidco account. Then any money raised could go to the school. Being a Quidco "old hand" I'd be happy to run it for them (if it means anyone on the staff having to run it, it would be a non starter). Would Quidco slap my wrists for this - I'd rather know before I take the idea into school.

Any thoughts would be great

Thanks
Tizz

eddieh_2

My school uses www.buy.at instead..

PBA

Anyone who's going to go through the hassle of logging on to quidco through your account would more likely to sign up through their own account. People who couldn't be bothered just wouldn't use it.

You can set up your own website though. Sign up for the affiliate networks like Tradedoubler and Affilliate Window, then put links through them on the site. Then get school newsletters to give the address to parents. That way every click automatically gives money to the school, without the hassle of using quidco.

Tizz

Thank you for the buy.at link - on a brief look they don't seem as "generous" as Quidco, but is well set up. I will examine it more closely over the Christmas holiday (and my brothers went to St Birinus many moons ago!) and PBA I do know what you are saying, the friends I've tried to convert to Quidco "don't think its worth the hassle of setting up an account for £50" but a £1500 spend on sofas at M&S would be £90! I don't expect they would do it routinely, but if I could persuade them on any big purchases!! I'm sure some parents would sign up for Quidco themselves (I'm always looking for converts!) but honestly I'm sure some wouldn't mind donating to the school if it meant so little effort (they're just throwing money away otherwise!)

Angelraesunshine

i run my schools pta and we used to use buy.at but now use easyfundraising and have done quite wel with it.

jean1272

we also use the website easyfundraising
http://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/ found it really good
we are raising funds for our local preschool

Butlers1982

My school uses www.buy.at instead..

Ill also second this site

Hope you manage to sort something! its really easy money!

good luck, let us know what you finally decide

nafan

quidco wouldnt allow this, they dont. you have to purchase with the same name and email adress as the quidco account (so they can a con as may £5 admin fees out of people as possible)
Topcashback(a much better cashback site) have links to the retailers which you can give out to others if they dont have an account so you could do this
the cashback is also 100%

payless

when comparing quidco ( and direct affiliate schems ) easyfundraising seem to keep a fair bit themselves ( also my guess they get lower % in some cases if t/o is lower)

looked at a few
oddmbins
easy 2.5% Quidco 7%
Thorntons E.. 5% / Q.. 16%
Coemt E- 1.5% / Q 3%

If someone is web savvy, then better using the likes of buy.at CJ and tradedoubler
( perhaps adding the links via greasy plam / TCB for those retailers not with the major schemes )

skim

The problem is that if you don't have a decent website then you are unlikely to get accepted into the best of the merchants available.

payless

Never had much trouble - a few years back ( before quidco/ GP) I had pages of ads on my ( new) website and used for own use only, and never had many declines

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as mentioned one can always add referral from GP or TCB anyway until site is established more, but its its a charitysite buyat seem on the ball for their connected schemes