As of today, anyone visiting the JustGiving website can now use PayPal to make a donation. Adding PayPal, the most popular online payment service, has been a frequent request from our users for some time, so we’re really pleased to have integrated it into our donation process and become the only online fundraising platform in the UK to do so.
This is great news for charities using JustGiving, because it connects them with PayPal’s 20 million customer accounts in the UK. PayPal will also be promoting charity donations through JustGiving to their 9 million email subscribers.
So not only does it make it easy for PayPal users to donate on JustGiving, PayPal will be actively encouraging charitable giving to their users – something that’s a great boost to charities in these ‘credit crunch’ times.
After a long negotiation, we’ve also got a highly competitive rate from them for processing donations. You can see that, along with the fees charged for other cards here.
To show you how to make a donation with PayPal on JustGiving, we’ve created a short slideshow, showing you the steps we took to donate to the fundraising page of our helpdesk hero, Mike:
As we said, this has been a really popular user request. Here’s a selection of feedback from our sponsor surveys:
I really wish PayPal was there as an option for payment. You could have more donors this way, I feel.
People will be much more likely to donate if you start letting them donate via PayPal.
I would have preferred it if I could use PayPal, as I would have more than likely sent a higher amount by using my PayPal funds.
Adding Paypal would make it even EASIER to sponsor. Please give this some thought. It enables someone to pledge money without having to fumble for cards…
Would be nice for you to accept Paypal, that way I could donate more as I’d have donated whatever I had left in the account.
This update has only been live a few hours, but already well over £4,000 has been donated through PayPal. We hope this makes it *even* easier for people to donate using JustGiving.
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