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Which online fundraising pages are best suited for PTA use?

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DoubleHelix79 · 07/05/2023 16:53

I'm about to embark on a bit of research to see which fundraising pages may be suitable for the PTA at our primary school. Can anyone advise on sites that they currently use for PTA-type organisations?

(I'm not part of the PTA but have offered to investigate some options.)

They are currently mainly collecting cash and other than doing a bank transfer there isn't a way to donate generally or to specific initiatives.

In addition to the usual suspects (Just Giving etc. there seem to be dozens of smaller players out there, all with slightly different business models and fee structures).

Any recommendations before I spend several days looking at each one and making a giant spreadsheet?

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mac1974 · 07/05/2023 16:55

Our school uses a system called SumUp I'm not 100% on how it all works. I'm not sure if you can donate on it but it's used for school fayres and the second hand uniform shop is set up online using it

For school donations they are an option on parent pay

DoubleHelix79 · 07/05/2023 17:01

Thank you very much, I'll have a look at that one! Our school use Parentmail but apparently they charge relatively high fees for processing payments.

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AHobbyaweek · 07/05/2023 17:01

We use PTA-events for the tickets and pre-loved uniform etc. then sum-up for card payments in person or some other things. It is low fees and easy to set up.

DoubleHelix79 · 07/05/2023 17:08

Oh great, thanks for the suggestion!

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Sipperskipper · 08/05/2023 14:17

We have a sumup card reader to take card payments, and for discos & other events we use bookwhen.com- it processes payments via stripe and there is a small fee. We just incorporate that into the cost, ie if people want to book online they pay 20p more, or they can book face to face without the extra 20p.

DoubleHelix79 · 08/05/2023 16:42

Thank you!

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