Payments tuned for nonprofits & faith
Donations are small tickets with huge heart, but CNP gifts, sustainers, and event flows still pay interchange and still attract card testing. Third-party.
Donations are small tickets with huge heart, but CNP gifts, sustainers, and event flows still pay interchange and still attract card testing. Third-party giving iframes hide true cost and split you from donor data on your own site. We optimize interchange-plus for mission revenue, set up sustainers with updater and retries, and review 0% program fit honestly before we promise it.
Sound familiar?
These are the friction points we hear most often from nonprofits & faith 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 nonprofits & faith get paid
Your underwriting, equipment, and pricing should match this flow, not a generic countertop setup.
- One-time online gifts from campaigns
- Monthly sustainer programs
- Event registrations bundled with donations
- In-person kiosk and text-to-give style flows
- Major donor pledges collected by invoice or link
What we configure for your vertical
- Donation-optimized interchange-plus pricing
- 0% fee program review for qualified organizations
- Recurring sustainer setup with updater and retries
- Embedded or hosted giving pages on your domain
- Reporting donors can reconcile to finance and audit needs
Worth knowing before you switch
- Third-party giving iframes hide true cost and donor data ownership
- Card-not-present fraud on public donate forms needs basic velocity controls
- 0% programs have qualification rules; we tell you honestly if you fit
How Gateway helps
Practical outcomes we configure for nonprofits & faith, 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
- Donation-optimized interchange-plus pricing
- 0% fee program review for qualified organizations
- Recurring sustainer setup with updater and retries
- Embedded or hosted giving pages on your domain
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Common questions
For qualified merchants we can structure processing so donor-facing cost is offset. We review volume and mission fit before promising anything.
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