one-off chstimas community event/card payments
Discussion
I wonder if anyone has encountered doing similar and has a solution.
I use paypal/zettle and all that gaff in our own small business - and understand it well enough for that.
However, we have a small village committee with a bank account via lloyds to carry out our village Chrimstmas lights switch on. Traditionally, any cash taken on the evening for the bbq, donations, raffle tickets and all that guff would have been paid, in cash to the committee bank account.
This year, we'd like to see if we'd get more income by taking card payments. I looked at setting up a separate paypal/zettle account to do this, thinking I'd just point the account details to the committees account, but (and I kind of understand why) you cant do that unless its registered to an individual or a bonafide company. I dont really want to go down that route - as that doesn't seem fair to the individual (and frankly I don't want the responsibility personally or through my existing company). Its not a registered charity (that opened up another can of worms with the bank if we did).
Its hardly going to be high use - probably saturday and sunday this weekend, and then nothing again until next year.
Anyone got any suggestions as to how other small villages/committees do this?
Cheers
24valve.
I use paypal/zettle and all that gaff in our own small business - and understand it well enough for that.
However, we have a small village committee with a bank account via lloyds to carry out our village Chrimstmas lights switch on. Traditionally, any cash taken on the evening for the bbq, donations, raffle tickets and all that guff would have been paid, in cash to the committee bank account.
This year, we'd like to see if we'd get more income by taking card payments. I looked at setting up a separate paypal/zettle account to do this, thinking I'd just point the account details to the committees account, but (and I kind of understand why) you cant do that unless its registered to an individual or a bonafide company. I dont really want to go down that route - as that doesn't seem fair to the individual (and frankly I don't want the responsibility personally or through my existing company). Its not a registered charity (that opened up another can of worms with the bank if we did).
Its hardly going to be high use - probably saturday and sunday this weekend, and then nothing again until next year.
Anyone got any suggestions as to how other small villages/committees do this?
Cheers
24valve.
In a similar situation - wanting to enable people to make donations without having to physically write a cheque, hand over cash or other similar routes, I set up an account with https://www.peoplesfundraising.com/ It gives us the flexibility to accept online payments and 'anonymous' donations and gives people the opportunity to do so from the comfort of their own home (or phone if out and about etc).
Thanks for all the replies.
As it happens, I discovered SQUARE, who don't need a company or a person linked to it. I set up an email address for our little comittee and linked square to that. I then linked the app and settings to our committee lloyds bank account and voila - all good.
I then spent 22 quid on a contactless payment device through amazon, but I didn't really need to do that, since you can tap to your phone.
The only bummer is the transaction charges, but theres not much getting around that.
24valve.
As it happens, I discovered SQUARE, who don't need a company or a person linked to it. I set up an email address for our little comittee and linked square to that. I then linked the app and settings to our committee lloyds bank account and voila - all good.
I then spent 22 quid on a contactless payment device through amazon, but I didn't really need to do that, since you can tap to your phone.
The only bummer is the transaction charges, but theres not much getting around that.
24valve.
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