FEE OPTIONS
Make the BetterUnite Fee Optional to Donors
You can give your donors the option of covering your software fees. In this case, BetterUnite suggests the full 3% or 2% to the donor, but they can uncheck “Cover Service Fees” at checkout and lower or zero out the BetterUnite fee, in which case your organization will cover only the balance.
Donor Opt-In Fee Structure
In this case, a donor/buyer is given the opportunity at checkout to tick a box to “Donate Service Fees” to the organization. If they leave the Donate Service Fees box unchecked, BetterUnite charges a 3% or 2% transaction fee to the organization. However, if they opt to check the Donate Service Fees box, BetterUnite suggests 3% or 2% to the donor, but they can uncheck “Cover Service Fees” and lower or zero out the BetterUnite fee, in which case your organization will cover the balance.
3rd Party Payment Processing Fees
BetterUnite integrates with WePay and Stripe as our fully PCI-compliant and trusted payment processors. Separate from the BetterUnite platform, WePay charges 2.9% + 30c per credit card transaction and 1% + 30c per ACH bank transfers or e-checks. Stripe charges 3.5% + 30c per credit card transaction and the same 1% + 30c per ACH bank transfers or e-checks.
With both WePay and Stripe, we allow the same flexibility of optionally passing on the payment processing fees to donors and further making it optional or mandatory that your donor covers the fee.