Payments tuned for charities & foundations
Foundations and charities raise through grants, galas, and sustained giving where every basis point is mission money. Third-party donate iframes hide true.
Foundations and charities raise through grants, galas, and sustained giving where every basis point is mission money. Third-party donate iframes hide true cost and split you from donor data on your own site. We optimize interchange-plus for gifts, configure sustainers with updater, and review reduced-fee programs honestly before we promise them.
Sound familiar?
These are the friction points we hear most often from charities & foundations before a savings review.
- Processing fees taking a bite out of every dollar raised
- Recurring billing that is clumsy or quietly drops saved cards
- Gateway and platform fees stacking on top of processing
- Fraud and chargebacks on card-not-present orders
- Statements you cannot actually read or verify
How charities & foundations get paid
Your underwriting, equipment, and pricing should match this flow, not a generic countertop setup.
- Online gifts and monthly sustainers
- Gala and event ticket checkout
- Major donor pledges via pay-by-link
- Corporate matching and workplace campaigns
- Grant-administered pass-through when cards are used
What we configure for your vertical
- Hosted or embedded giving on your domain
- Recurring donations with card updater
- Lower-cost and 0% program review for qualified orgs
- Fraud tools tuned for small-ticket testing attacks
- Readable statements for board finance review
Worth knowing before you switch
- National donate pages stack fees and break attribution
- Card testing attacks hit small CNP gifts hard without velocity rules
- Promising 0% before qualification wastes campaign planning time
How Gateway helps
Practical outcomes we configure for charities & foundations, on top of transparent interchange-plus pricing.
Lower-cost & 0% programs
Keep more of every donation with reduced rates and 0% fee programs for qualified organizations.
Recurring & saved cards
Tokenized cards on file with reliable rebilling, card-updater, and smart retries.
Hosted & embedded checkout
Secure, developer-friendly online payments with no mystery gateway markups.
Fraud & chargeback tools
Protect card-not-present revenue with the right safeguards in place.
Real human support
A dedicated specialist who actually answers, plus our written savings guarantee.
The bottom line
- Hosted or embedded giving on your domain
- Recurring donations with card updater
- Lower-cost and 0% program review for qualified orgs
- Fraud tools tuned for small-ticket testing attacks
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Common questions
Sustainer setup with tokenization, updater, and retries.
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