[thelist] Online Charitable Donations

[Rich Points]

I've had pretty good results with PayPal which is free and easy to set up.

R

David McCreath wrote:

>Howdy, all -
>
>I've been asked by a local charity to help them set up a system for
>taking financial donations throught their web site. I've never done
>this before and my experience with online purchasing/credit card
>issues is minimal.
>
>I'm going to be doing this on a volunteer basis so it needs to be as
>simple as possible to set up and maintain, so I'm thinking I'll need
>to go with a service. I've found the following with a cursory search:
>
>http://clickandpledge.com/
>http://merchantseek.com/accept-donations-online.htm
>
>And on a different tip:
>
>http://whatgoesaround.org/
>
>I haven't had an in-depth conversation with the charity about their
>ideas yet, but I'd like to have a least a few ducks in rows before I
>meet with them officially to start the work.
>
>If anyone has done this kind of thing and can offer advice about
>pitfalls, recommendations, etc., I'd be extremely grateful.
>
>thanks
>David
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