We have just switched from annual to monthly for our "family" RSPB
membership payment.
Instead of 25 quid we pay 3 x 12 = 36 quid: we can spread the payments
and the RSPB gets an 11 quid bonus.
RSPB was mentioned by Anonymouse at the last London Wikimeet (#49) as a
good model of membership for a charity.
http://www.rspb.org.uk/
*****
* Over a million members, including over 195,000 youth members.
* A staff of over 1,300 people and over 13,000 volunteers.
* Resources available for charitable purposes in 2007 was £78.6 million.
*****
Ha! Small fry!
Gordo
On 16/09/2011 23:19, WereSpielChequers wrote:
Monthly and quarterly are nice to haves, but presumably most members
will want to do an annual payment for their annual renewal?
WereSpielChequers
On 16 September 2011 23:05, Michael Peel
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
wrote:
We're working on finding an easy way to give donors the choice of
monthly or quarterly direct debits, but we haven't got it working
quite yet. For now, if you want to donate by direct debit each
month, then you can do so by visiting:
http://directdebit.wikimedia.org.uk/index_monthly.html
Hopefully we'll have a more integrated solution working in the
near future.
Thanks,
Mike
On 16 Sep 2011, at 22:59, Chris Keating wrote:
>
> This is fantastic! Well done!
>
> Thank you. We have taken a shortcut, which is to outsource the
absolute maximum of the administration involved in Direct
Debiting. Once we are on a firmer administrative footing we can
bring it back in-house if needs be.
>
>
> Hmmm... I just tried to set up a direct debit and it seems the only
> option for the frequency is quarterly. I want to donate monthly. Why
> can't I? Obviously, the fees are greater for 3 donations of £2, say,
> than for one donation of £6, but I think you'll get a lot more
takers
> if you offer monthly direct debits for the simple reason that people
> tend to be paid monthly.
>
> We are set up for monthly and quarterly direct debits. I'm not
quite sure why that form insists on quarterly, I doubt it will
continue to insist after we speak to the suppliers on Monday, as
we have other test forms that are definitely accepting monthly DDs.
>
> You're right about the advantage of monthly DDs. during the
fundraiser we'll test prompting different amounts/frequencies and
different layouts of form to see which gives us the best long-term
income.
>
> Chris
>
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