online donation sites

[Evan Leibovitch]

Hello Emma,

> I'm trying to find Web sites which specialise in processing on-line 
> donations for registered charities in Canada. At this point I'm 
> considering using PayPal (even though it's off the mark, it is easy to 
> integrate into CMSes), or maybe CanadaHelps (www.canadahelps.org), but 
> I thought I'd check to see if anyone knew of other sites. I seem to 
> recall there were more, but as I mentioned above, my Google-fu is weak 
> today...


I don't think that the mechanics of taking money online for a nonprofit 
is really any different from taking money for an online store. The same 
security issues (in preventing card fraud and credit card chargebacks) 
apply regardless.

In any case, I suggest a look at InternetSecure. Their processing fees 
are far less than Paypal or Moneris, they work in Canadian funds, and 
their tech people are easy to work with. They were used for LPI and 
they're they choice for CLUE. I suggest you have a look.

At CLUE we're creating a Drupal module that will let InternetSecure 
communicate with Drupal's ecommerce facility. If you're looking at an 
open source CMS for donation tracking, etc. the above combination 
together with CiviCRM may do exactly what you need.

HTH,

- Evan

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