2.9% + $0.30 hardly qualifies as "lowest fees". Interchange Pricing Plus on a Authorize.net reseller charges 0.10% + $0.30 for comparison.<p>I'm pretty sure 2.9% + $0.30 is standard.
Neat. Anything to reduce friction; a lot of people in the nonprofit world don't seem to grasp the importance of making it easy to donate the way that for-profits seem to grasp it.
On two of the non-profits I've worked on, we had trouble with donation
fraud. At the time, a few years ago, it was a huge problem. Donation
fraud happened to a sizable percentage of non-profits and charity
organizations, and it particularly harmed the small, all-volunteer
groups which lacked the resources/skills to deal with it. Basically,
criminals would target charities with bogus donations as a way to test
their stolen credit cards. As you might imagine with all the
charge-backs and uncertainty, this caused a lot of problems and
headaches for the charities.<p>I'm sure you probably can't give much detail on your risk management and
fraud detection measures, but has the donation fraud problem been more
or less solved?
Cool idea! I think there are a few things on the usability side that you could do to make it even better:<p>* Lock the body when you open the modal by setting overflow: hidden. That will prevent people from scrolling around accidentally while filling out the form.<p>* This is related to the first point, but you should probably position: fixed the modal<p>* Make the label for the monthly donation clickable - people shouldn't have to find the little check box!<p>* Lighten the .iframe-subheader-text as it can be pretty low contrast when the background is white<p>* Add some subtle animations to the open and closing of the modal. It feels very jarring right now.
I assume "Make this a monthly donation" can be cancelled via a link that you send to the donator's email? Maybe that should be mentioned to assure the user they can easily cancel monthly payments.
I've handled the fundraising site for an alumni organization for several years. One thing we find essential is displaying "progress" by plugging into our templates the amount raised so far by each different campaign. On the API page <a href="https://github.com/Crowdtilt/crowdtilt-api-spec/#get-campaign" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/Crowdtilt/crowdtilt-api-spec/#get-campaig...</a> this appears to be a simple ajax call. And you don't have to touch paypal. Well done!
One of the non-profits I work with receives a significant portion of donations via ACH so something like this would not be considered regardless of how simple it is to use or how elegant the design may be.<p>Are there any plans to accept donations via ACH in the future?
The central part of that service is a modal dialog... which does not look very good: <a href="https://i.imgur.com/iaxmLis.png" rel="nofollow">https://i.imgur.com/iaxmLis.png</a><p>(I have scrolled a bit with my mouse wheel to reach that state)
Congrats, Tilt team! This is absolutely needed. The previous product I worked on was used by a lot of non-profits for crowdfunding and it just shows how necessary something like this is.
Cool idea, but it would be nice if it automated Paypal, Amazon, Bitcoin and/or Google as well. I think that asking for a Credit Card can be a barrier to getting donations.
Monthly donations are a great feature, but one of the things we see often (I'm a non-profit development (that's our neologism for fundraising) manager) is the desire to have payment installations. That is, not necessarily a standard monthly donation, but $1k over ten payments (monthly and then ending) or $1k over four payments (quarterly and then ending). Is support for pledges like these in the works?
Claim on this website: "Accept donations on your site instantly, from all cards and countries".<p>Truth is: in Germany the prefered way for paying on the internet is Lastschrift (direct debit). Paying with credit card is not very popular and credit cards aren't that common in Germany.<p>To put it harshly in other words: the statement on the website above is simply fraudulent. I can't pay with my EC card by direct debit.
Two-step authentication must for credit cards in India<p><a href="http://www.thehindu.com/business/Industry/twostep-authentication-must-for-credit-cards-rbi/article6345330.ece" rel="nofollow">http://www.thehindu.com/business/Industry/twostep-authentica...</a>
What exactly is the benefit of this vs. PayPal's Donate Now button?<p>It may be more than 2 lines of code but I don't really care anyway since I'm just cutting & pasting it from PayPal's site...
wet blanket alert: a modal form with credit card inputs has been done many times before. What is instant or new about this? Kudos for yet another checkout, payment button code snippet?
WePay.com used to have a Donate button that as I recall was pretty much exactly this. They dropped that, along with their invoicing services, a little over a year ago. Any reasons you think this will get better traction?