Donation Processors

While PayPal is our primary method for accepting donations, it is understandable that not everyone prefers to use it. To help accommodate this, Google Checkout and Amazon Payments have been setup as an additional methods for accepting donations. The fees for each of these methods are within close range of each other.

Amazon Payments

USD is the only accepted currency. At the moment, only one-time donations are possible. In order to support automatic recurring donations, the ability to generate a signature for dynamically created buttons needs to be implemented. It would be a tremendous contribution for an individual to learn how to do this.

Typical Per-Transaction fee

Less than $10: 5.0% + $0.05
Greater than $10: 2.9% + $0.30

See Amazon's site-listed fees for more information.

Google Checkout

USD is the only accepted currency. At the moment, only one-time donations are possible. The ability to process automatic recurring donations is part of Google's Beta API. It would be a tremendous contribution for an individual to learn how to implement this functionality.

Typical Per-Transaction fee

2.9% + $0.30
An additional 1.0% for cross-border payments

See Google's site-listed fees for more information.

Paypal

Currently USD and EUR are enabled currencies in PayPal. Both one-time and automatic recurring donations are possible.

Typical Per-Transaction fee

2.2% + 0.30
An additional 1.0% for cross-border payments
Payments requiring a currency conversion include a 2.5% fee

See PayPal's site-listed fees for more information.