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Hi Paddy,

The JustGiving route has a lot of advantages for the charity receiving the
funds - they handle the Giftaid stuff and just pass the correct amount of
money to the charity, whereas with PayPal (not having built in handling of
tax status/gift aid eligibility) it would involve additional accounting for
the charity...

Last I looked the % charged was pretty good compared to most payment
gateways too.

I've looked at this before for another charity and there are a lot of
legal/HMRC rules around gift aid that need to be taken into account - almost
certainly you will need to ask users to confirm they are a UK Tax Payers /
not donating on behalf of a company etc. By the time you've captured /
stored this information I suspect the lack of registration advantages might
be minimal...

A charity I worked with recently had a bespoke solution from this company:
http://www.btbmf.co.uk/
They do list charity payment processing on their site... not sure if charges
are reasonable/setup costs exist etc.. but may be worth a look.

Just my thoughts though...

Steve

On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 5:41 PM, Paddy Uglow <paddy at watershed.co.uk> wrote:

> Thanks for the justgiving.com pointer, Jack. I'd looked at them before and
> not been convinced straight away. It looks like anyone who donates has to
> set up an account with them (Personally, I hate having to "sign up" in
> order
> to do things... it might put me off donating altogether), whereas I think
> with PayPal you can give even if you don't have a PayPal account. Though
> Paypal takes more money, for small donations at least.
> Any more opinions/ideas? I'm too stingy to make a donation to see how it
> works! Maybe I should cough up a few quid though...
> - Paddy
>
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