Cashless and Contactless Donations – The Options for Charities

Supported Giving’s charity whitepaper ‘Contactless & Cashless Donations: The Options for Charities’ provides a comprehensive overview of the technologies available to charities – everything from text donation to QR code payment and card payments via mobile devices.

Right from the off, the whitepaper outlines an interesting conundrum. 86% of charities expect cash giving to continue dropping. And yet as many as 74% of charities have not yet tried using cashless payment systems to collect donations.

Where does this reluctance to offer cashless donation opportunities come from? Certainly not from the public. According to Pingit, 28% of UK consumers would rather make a donation via their mobile devices than traditional methods. 27% of those surveyed said that they would donate more if they could do so using a mobile device or payment card. By the end of 2018 around 8.5 million people (16% of the UK adult population) had registered for mobile payments and 79% of these registered users recorded a payment, according to UK Finance figures.

This free online resource answers the many questions facing charities looking to implement cashless fundraising, including:

• How much does it cost?
• What kind of ROI can we expect?
• Do we need to work with a third party?
• How much lead time is necessary?
• What are the rules for contacting people after a donation?
• What data do we get?
• Can we collect Gift Aid?

Download the full Whitepaper today!