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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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 <a
href="http://blueutopia.com/">http://blueutopia.com/</a> They
offer a secure donation page on their own servers, which you can
customize to your site's appearance. <br>
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On 11/24/2010 7:55 AM, Christian Pearce wrote:
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rgb(0, 0, 0);">Can't the reporting be handled by hand?<br>
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I found this link.<br>
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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.<br>
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> 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. <br>
> <br>
> 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.<br>
>
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