Similar to justgiving.com in UK, we have something closer home giveindia.org. We can actually use their platform for commerce. Give India provides these facilities only to charities. They keep a nominal fees for a transaction.
If everyone is ok with this. I would be happy to connect the individual to the giveindia.org. Moksh Juneja Social Media Catalyst Avignyata Inc. <avignyata.com> Mobile: +91 93221 21170 My profiles: [image: Facebook] <http://www.facebook.com/mokshjuneja> [image: LinkedIn] <http://www.linkedin.com/in/mokshjuneja> [image: Flickr]<http://www.flickr.com/photos/mokshjuneja> [image: Twitter] <http://twitter.com/mokshjuneja> [image: foursquare]<http://foursquare.com/mokshjuneja> [image: SlideShare] <http://www.slideshare.net/mokshjuneja> [image: YouTube]<http://www.youtube.com/mokshjuneja> Contact me: [image: Google Talk] mokshjuneja [image: Skype] mokshjuneja [image: BlackBerry] 21922c20 [image: Twitter] <http://twitter.com/mokshjuneja> Latest tweet: Dear 107.1 FM, I love beatles, but not every morning!! Follow @mokshjuneja <http://twitter.com/mokshjuneja> <http://twitter.com/?status=@mokshjuneja%20&in_reply_to_status_id=80497688566706180&in_reply_to=mokshjuneja> Reply<http://twitter.com/?status=@mokshjuneja%20&in_reply_to_status_id=80497688566706180&in_reply_to=mokshjuneja> <http://twitter.com/?status=RT%20%40mokshjuneja%3A%20Dear%20107.1%20FM%2C%20I%20love%20beatles%2C%20but%20not%20every%20morning%21%21> Retweet<http://twitter.com/?status=RT%20%40mokshjuneja%3A%20Dear%20107.1%20FM%2C%20I%20love%20beatles%2C%20but%20not%20every%20morning%21%21> 10:21 Jun-14 <http://twitter.com/mokshjuneja/statuses/80497688566706180> <http://www.wisestamp.com/apps/twitter?utm_source=extension&utm_medium=email&utm_term=twitter&utm_campaign=apps> On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 10:25, <wheredevelsd...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Iv had some fundraising experience with charities - both in India and the > UK. The simplest method of accepting payment is tying up with an external > party such as http://www.justgiving.com/ (from experience - this is one of > many that specialise in online fundraising for charities in the UK). If the > amount is relatively small this makes sense, however for higher amounts we > may as well sign up with a merchant as that would be cheaper if we have > volume. Rather than requesting funds through NEFT (which is a better mode > for payments such as membership fee etc), for this you could opt for Net > Banking or even cheques by post! > > As for 80G, the more you run after it the more the babu will want from you. > If you put a bundle on the table, the certificate will be in your hand in > days. However, from experience I can tell you, if you dont bother about it - > just complete official formalities, the form will come by post to your > office in due course. > > Kind Regards, > > ------------------------------ > Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 06:22:03 +0530 > From: ravidre...@gmail.com > To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Global Fund raising Support to Indian > Currency > > > I think 80G is nice to have, but shouldnt stop us. Also we are not probably > looking at large scale(We would love if they come), but typically my > equivalents to 5 10 20 dollors would 250 500 1000 INR for which most would > not take trouble of getting receipts and eventually getting the > benefit(Atleast the folks who do online donations) since the tax benefit > would be negligible. > > > +1 > > > > So my next question is without which are we eligible to collect donations > online, would just like to know the bureaucracy around it? I now know the > chapter can receive donations through NEFT[1].If we are good to go then the > next thing to work out would be a payment gateway / payments partner helping > us in giving options to various bank netbanking / credit/debit cards, > ofcourse a decent API. The more the merrier. Also if we could get some > sponsorship/deal from them in terms of the cut they take for transaction > cost. People who have experience with online payment solutions can add their > inputs. > > > http://www.ccavenue.com/ works best for accepting payments online from > various netbanking accounts in India. > > Thanks for the timely reminder and initiative on this, Srikanth. > > Ravi > > _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing > list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > >
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