Establishing a merchant account for non profit organizations and charities is in no way a difficult thing to do when you are dealing with us. There is no start up cost associated with this. We offer non for profits charities and churches a very efficient way to accept donations via e-check and credit card processing online or over the phone. You will able to securely process payments over the internet or an office or retail setting.
With the many features that come with the account, one of them is to setup recurring payments from donors who give regularly or you can just process one time payments.
People that donate to charities are searching for an easier, more convenient way to make payments. There are studies that suggest if charitable organizations would present potential donors with the option of recurring donations, some would have no problem making that commitment. The funds are automatically debited from the donors account on a monthly, by-monthly, weekly, or annually.
You can offer them the options of setting up their own recurring donation cycle that works for them. When your donors take a look at their online bank statements or monthly banks statements, the name of your organization will show up on their statement so there is no confusion as to what company is charging their credit card in the event they forgot. Additionally, you can send out reminders that they are about to make a recurring donation a few days before the transaction is processed. When processing the payments online, we provide a very secure way of encrypting data to protect the donor’s information. With CISP compliance and 256 bit of SSL security, you are protected from data breaches. We offer shopping carts and a gateway that can be customized to better meet the needs of the organization whether there is 1 or 200 employees working there.
The rates we provide charities are the lowest in the industry. If you are doing some looking around before deciding on what company to go with, just know that we especially cater to charities and churches all over the US. Some charities like to process payments via a third party and by not having a direct merchant account for the organization you could be spending more money on fees and funds are not direct into the charity’s bank account. Other benefits are customization to meet the organizational needs of the business, our platform is completely invisible to your donors and we handle all of the backend work. We also have the ability to do advanced integration into any existing financial software or platform.
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