[consulting] Online Donation Service Recommendation

[Jamie]

Yeah you pretty much have to do it by hand anyways. The problem is that 
a lot of the third party merchant services won't accept payments for 
political or any other service because fraud is high when dealing with 
services. They pretty much stick with accepting payment on tangible 
items only.

Another thing to consider, especially in the political world, is the 
service charges involved with merchant services. PayPal and Google is by 
far the cheapest, charging around 2-3% per transaction. Most of the 
other ones charge 8-10%, and I've seen some as high as 14%. That's a 
pretty steep charge for any political campaign.

There are more specialized services out there for this purpose. Not sure 
if this is a partisan race or not, but one service for the Democratic 
side that comes to mind is http://blueutopia.com/ They offer a secure 
donation page on their own servers, which you can customize to your 
site's appearance.

Jamie Holly
http://www.intoxination.net
http://www.hollyit.net


On 11/24/2010 7:55 AM, Christian Pearce wrote:
> Can't the reporting be handled by hand?
>
> I found this link.
>
> http://www.affinityresources.com/pgs/awz55Online2.shtml
>
> Seems to me there are lots of tools to accomplish what I am looking 
> for.  I just was hoping someone had a recommendation, so I could skip 
> ahead to choosing from some recommendations, versus wading through the 
> Internet.
>
>
>
> ----- "Jamie" <intoxination at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I really doubt you will find such a tool. The problem you are going 
> to run into is that you're dealing with a local race instead of a 
> federal or state one. That means there are state and local reporting 
> laws that must be adhered to and those vary by state and even county.
> >
> > Pretty much you are going to have to go a more generic route like 
> ChipIn, PayPal or Google Checkout. Google Checkout actually does offer 
> a political campaign donation service, but that too is limited to 
> federal races.
> >
> Jamie Holly
> http://www.intoxination.net
> http://www.hollyit.net
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