Fees payable on usage of Donr's various fundraising and communication solutions differ depending on which solution is being used.
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Why does Donr need to charge these fees?
Does Donr charge VAT on its fees?
General fees
Donr does not charge general fees such as:
- Sign-up fees
- Monthly running fees
- Extra campaign fees
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Text Giving fees
Donr's processing fee for a donation made via our Text Giving fundraising solution is 5%. This breaks down as follows:
| Gross donation | £10 |
| Donr fee | £0.50 |
| Net payable to charity | £9.50 |
| Gift Aid claimable on donation | £2.50 |
| Potential total value of donation | £12.00 |
Occasionally, a donation via Text Giving may fail (more information on why this may happen is available here). When this happens, the affected supporter will be offered the opportunity to make a donation by card instead. This incurs an extra card payment processing fee of 1.5%+£0.20 (charged by Stripe, Donr's third party card payment processing partner). This breaks down as follows:
| Gross donation | £10 |
| Donr fee | £0.50 |
| Stripe fee | £0.35 |
| Net payable to charity | £9.15 |
| Gift Aid claimable on donation | £2.50 |
| Potential total value of donation | £11.65 |
For one-off donations, the supporter will be charged the donation amount plus one standard network rate message (typically between £0.10 and £0.15). For monthly donations, the supporter will be charged the donation amount plus two standard network rate messages, during initial set-up, then the donation amount for every month thereafter, until the monthly donation instruction is cancelled.
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Text Raffles fees
There is no charge made to the charity for a supporter entering a raffle via text. However, if the supporter chooses to make an optional donation to the charity via our Text Raffles solution, during the entry process, a charge of 5% on the donation amount applies. This breaks down as follows:
| Gross donation | £10 |
| Donr fee | £0.50 |
| Net payable to charity | £9.50 |
| Gift Aid claimable on donation | £2.50 |
| Potential total value of donation | £12.00 |
The supporter will be charged one standard network rate message (typically between £0.10 and £0.15) each time they send a text message to one of Donr's shortcodes. If they choose to make an optional donation during the entry process, they will also be charged their chosen donation amount.
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Giving Pages fees
Donr's fee for processing a donation made via a Giving Page is £1, no matter whether that donation is £2 or £100,000. When making a donation, a supporter is given the option to cover this fee themselves.
We introduced a flat £1 fee in consultation with charities using our platform. As the average donation through Giving Pages is significantly higher than via text, we found that the 5% pricing model we use for Text Giving and Text Raffles didn't work for Giving Pages. We therefore set a flat £1 fee to ensure that our fee is proportionate, transparent and fair.
Additional fees from third-party processors may apply, these fees vary depending on the donation method as follows. These fees are set by the payment processors themselves and are separate from Donr's flat £1 fee.
| Payment method | Payment processor | Fee (set by payment processor) |
| Credit card, debit card, Apple Pay and Google Pay | Stripe | 1.5% plus 20p |
| PayPal | PayPal | 2.9% plus 30p |
Should a supporter make a donation of £30 via credit card and choose to cover Donr's fee themselves, this would break down as follows:
| Gross donation | £30 |
| Donr fee (covered by supporter) | £1 |
| Stripe fee | £0.65 |
| Net payable to charity | £29.35 |
| Gift Aid claimable on donation | £7.50 |
| Potential total value of donation | £36.85 |
| Gross donation | £30 |
| Donr fee | £1 |
| Stripe fee | £0.65 |
| Net payable to charity | £28.35 |
| Gift Aid claimable on donation | £7.50 |
| Potential total value of donation | £35.85 |
Text Journeys fees
Bundles of Text Journeys credits must be purchased by the charity, in order to send messages en masse to opted-in supporters via Donr's Text Journeys communication solution. Bundles are priced as follows:
| Credits | Price (£0.04 plus VAT per credit) |
| 500 | £20 (plus VAT) |
| 1,000 | £40 (plus VAT) |
| 5,000 | £200 (plus VAT) |
| 10,000 | £400 (plus VAT) |
| 25,000 | £1,000 (plus VAT) |
Credits can be bought from within the Donr Dashboard, as long as your organisation has had its bank account details verified by Donr:
Donr Dashboard > Purchase credits > Choose credits bundle > Input card payment details
Once you've made your purchase, a receipt will be emailed to the email address you use to sign into the Donr Dashboard.
One message sent is one credit spent, unless the message's character count (including spaces) is over 160 credits. Messages of 161-320 characters will be charged two credits to send.
The supporter is not charged for receiving messages sent via Text Journeys.
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Mobile Lotteries fees
From each £2 entry into a Mobile Lottery, a charity will receive £1.02.
The remaining 98 pence is used to cover the costs of running the lottery. These costs include prizes, transaction fees, taxes, licensing fees and other administrative costs.
Payment processing fee
For any Text Giving or Text Raffles payout from April 2023 onwards, we will charge a £5 payment processing fee. This fee will be debited from your payout automatically.
The payment processing fee will be charged only in months when there is a payout of £10 or more before any fees are deducted. Therefore, in months where your charity does not receive a payout, or receives a payout of less than £10, no fee will be charged. This means that there will be no charge when you are in between campaigns.
It will be charged a maximum of one time per month, so if a charity is receiving a payout for both Text Giving and Text Raffles in a particular month, this will incur only one payment processing fee.
The payment processing fee only applies to donations made via Text Giving and Text Raffles. It does not apply to donations made via Giving Pages, or any transactions relating to Text Journeys or Mobile Lotteries.
Why does Donr need to charge these fees?
Donr is a for-profit, tech-for-good organisation. As we are not a charity, we cannot receive donations and so we need to charge these fees to cover overheads related to providing these fundraising and communication solutions, such as staffing, technology and other bills. We believe our fees are clear, reasonable and competitive with other providers of similar services.
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Does Donr charge VAT on its fees?
From 1st January 2022, VAT will be charged at 0% for the following fees. This effectively means that no VAT is charged:
- Processing Text Giving donations;
- Processing optional Text Raffles donations;
- Processing Giving Pages donations;
- Third-party processing fees (such as Stripe or PayPal).
VAT is charged at 20% for Text Journeys credits, though charities that are VAT-registered may be able to claim this back from HMRC.
For donations made before 1st January 2022, VAT is charged at 20% for all fees. You will see this added to the invoices you can download from the Payouts section of the Dashboard. Charities that are VAT-registered can claim this back from HMRC.
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