Can our school use PaySimple to collect donations?
You can use PaySimple to collect donations. There’s no additional cost to the school—only the standard transaction fees apply. Additionally, donors have the option to cover the transaction fees themselves.
- Tracking donated money - Merchants can create donation-specific catalog items and attach those to payment forms or payment buttons posted on their websites. These catalog items can also be recurring payments.
- Identifying who made the donation - Customer/donor information can be collected via payment forms. Custom fields can be added to those forms to collect donor information in addition to payment information.
- Allowing donors to choose a specific campaign for their donation - Custom fields can be added to payment forms as a dropdown, allowing donors to select a specific campaign. The custom fields, customer/donor information, and payment history are stored and can queried via our reporting tool or downloaded into Excel.
- Assisting the school in sending year-end donation receipts to donors - Our customer portal allows customers/donors to log in to view/download their payment/donation history. This is often used by customers of daycares or donors of non-profits to calculate tax write-off amounts.
- Donations will not appear in your Gradelink account, as it only displays payments owed to your school. However, you can log into your PaySimple account anytime to view and manage donated funds.