Mpayy Free Donation Processing for Charities & Non-Profits Featured

Allan Benamer, who writes at Non-Profit Tech Blog featured Mpayy's open offer to charities and non-profits to process donations for free. The Mpayyment widget will allow them to take donations through their website or on their social networking pages directly.

Below is the Mpayy excerpt from Allan's blog, read the full story here,

Charities & Non-Profits can secure get free donations here.

www.mpayy.com

Mpayy is another electronic payment service akin to Paypal or Google Checkout for Non-Profits. However, Mpayy works by tying a donor’s checking account to their Mpayy account thus making it possible to send electronic checks. Even better, Mpayy can do this via mobile phone via SMS text messaging.

Full disclosure on this though: We’re considering using it for socialmarkets.org not as a replacement for Google Checkout but because bigger donors would rather use their checking account instead of their credit cards. They can also used as an ACH (electronic checking) backend instead of just a mobile payment service.

Your typical nonprofit scenario…
Charity ball and your donors are pleasantly buzzed and going strong. One of them has just won an auction and now wants to pay for the art they just bought. Knowing your donors, they have a cell phone that can access the web and receives SMS. They go to Mpayy’s site and they’ll see something like this on their cell phone:



It’s not yet the most elegant interface but you can guess what’s happening. Mobile payments for mobile donors. I’ve talked to the Mpayy folks — they definitely want nonprofits on board and are willing process transactions for free. Trace Johnson, their product VP says:

For now, charities/non-profits can just fill out our Retail Application https://www.mpayy.com/info/requestRetailMerchant.do?_path=retailMerchantRequest and specify they are a non-profit in the business profile section for business type. We’ll follow up with them, check in Guidestar, and change the fee amount on the back end.