Setting up my own website so people can donate money

kennyb3

Basically i want to set up a website that will enable people (my extended friends abroad etc) to donate money to my charity of choice in advance of me running the DCM 2009.

Im not bad on computers but no wizz. would this be difficult? has anybody any advice.

i know one of the boardies has done this already, think they used a special charity website, but i cant remember whose site it was again. In this case do they take much commisssion or charge a flat rate fee etc?

thanks in advance

nerraw1111

mycharity.ie

Not sure about commissions etc. Doing you own computer could be difficult. If my friend wasn't a wizz on computeres, there is no way I'd donate to their site, security etc.

bazman

www.mycharity.ie

kennyb3

ah yeah thats the one i was looking for, and kind of what im after. defo dont have the expertise to be doing it myself

kennyb3

does anyone know if they charge anything? - oh wait i see the answer is 3% as fer the FAQ on their page.

I plan on doing this for an already established charity, do i need to contact that charity let them know that im registering them as my charity and then the money goes directly to them?

MarieC

Nope don't think so!

silverside

i've no knowledge of the irish site, i know a lot of people who have used

justgiving.com

tantipie

why dont you contact the charity your doing it for,,im doing it for rehab and they have sent me aa attatchment with how to set it up on there website

Odysseus

kennyb3 wrote: »

does anyone know if they charge anything? - oh wait i see the answer is 3% as fer the FAQ on their page.

I plan on doing this for an already established charity, do i need to contact that charity let them know that im registering them as my charity and then the money goes directly to them?

No need to contact the charity, I used it recently, it was handy but I still collected most of the cash the hard way. I had a few problem with pastwords over the past year but all in all it was handy enough. Most charities seem to be please with mycharity.ie Which charity are you doing it for? Best of luck with it.

swimforever

kennyb3 wrote: »

does anyone know if they charge anything? - oh wait i see the answer is 3% as fer the FAQ on their page.

The 3% is worth it too-I've looked into other ways of doing this through PayPal and things like that and every other way I tried ended up with bank charges much higher than 3%. Plus you don't have to deal with money hassle this way-it just goes straight into the charity account. I've raised money for a few different events on there and have found it very easy to use.

barkar

swimforever wrote: »

The 3% is worth it too-I've looked into other ways of doing this through PayPal and things like that and every other way I tried ended up with bank charges much higher than 3%. Plus you don't have to deal with money hassle this way-it just goes straight into the charity account. I've raised money for a few different events on there and have found it very easy to use.

One thing about mycharity .ie is that the charity is not notified who donates what it just gets transfers made to their account. I noticed this when i raised fora certain charity they had no idea how much was rasied by each person or had no way of recording it.