SOLUTIONS FOR CHARITIES AND NONPROFITS

NDMS is proud to serve the special needs of charities and non-profit corporations for all their electronic payment requirements. NDMS is a tier 1 PCI-DSS compliant secure card payment processing platform. PCI-DSS is the payment card industry data security standard. Tier one is the highest standard, offering users the greatest level of security.

Considering the administrative costs associated with fundraising, meeting that challenge is never easy. Serving a worthy cause is an activity that deserves support. Attract new donors and streamline operations at the same time by obtaining an NDMS merchant account. Credit card acceptance can help reach your goals by enabling your donors to give regularly and automatically, while reducing your costs and possibly increasing total donations. Because approximately 9 in 10 U.S. consumers carry at least one payment card for convenience, flexibility or to earn benefits from a loyalty card program, many nonprofits accept payment cards as an attractive alternative to cash and checks for initial and recurring donations.

Benefits to Nonprofit and Philanthropic Organizations

Faster Payments

With fewer payment problems and delays, card acceptance can mean your organization receives donations more quickly.

Reduced Solicitations

NDMS can help facilitate recurring donations from your contributors.

Increased Donations

The recurring payment option encourages contributors to think beyond a one-time donation and consider an ongoing commitment.

A Simple Online Giving Process

Your website is an effective, efficient tool for spreading the word about your organization and eliciting private support. NDMS can help you evaluate the usability of your organization's website to achieve your fundraising goals.

MasterCard conducted research with more than 50 nonprofit websites to establish best practices for online giving. Their research findings are summarized in a comprehensive presentation, improving the usability of online giving entitled Top 10 Best Practices and Guidelines. These guidelines can help ensure that your online giving process is clear, concise, and easy for visitors to navigate. You can download the guidelines as a PDF document here. (MC_Nonprofits_Online_Giving_Webinar.pdf)

Automatic Billing Updater

If you maintain card-on-file data for your customers’ automatic recurring bill payments, you face the challenge of card payments that decline due to account changes that have not been communicated to you with each billing period. Declines compromise revenue flow and are inconvenient to customers as well. They also increase your direct and indirect expenses by forcing you to contact customers for either updated account information or alternate payment arrangements.

The automatic billing updater seamlessly updates card-on-file account information. This helps to ensure uninterrupted payments for you and uninterrupted service for your customers, and helps to maintain and build customer satisfaction.

NDMS Charity merchant accounts provide for all your online or offline payments, including donations, membership and direct mail and telephone payments and or charity shop transactions including:

  • Multiple currency
  • Single or recurring ACH payments
  • Credit or debit card transactions, single or recurring

Is most of your fundraising via telephone? Save money with an NDMS merchant account and an E-Terminal.

Here is how it works once you have applied for an NDSM merchant account:

  • Via E-Terminal access using a simple URL web address, user name and password that you can process each payment transaction in real time.
  • With a multi-user system, your charity can set up all of its branches across the country to process their own card payments and collect all their donations through one easy to manage NDMS merchant account.
  • It can be used in combination and or as direct replacement for the standard credit card terminals, if you do not have retail locations.
  • Each charity is allocated a unique ID, web address, user name and password.
  • Allows you to set up multiple logins so that individual, identified users can process donations or other payments.
  • Allows you to create and link an unlimited number of online donation pages.
  • Allows real time reporting,
  • It provides full expiration date management, to ensure you never allow a donor or supporter to lapse.
  • Allows the upload of a batch transaction file.
  • It is a live gateway direct to the NDMS’s authorization systems.
  • It maintains a full audit trail of transactions and provides full online reporting is to authorized users.
  • It enables you to cancel transactions entered in error and to put through refunds.

Recurring payments

Today, many businesses as well as consumers are looking for ways to make paying bills more convenient.  And, chances are, many of them are your customers. Recurring payments – when your customer authorizes you to bill a card account monthly, quarterly, or annually – can give them the convenience they want.  Payment amounts can be fixed or fluctuate and payment agreements can exist indefinitely, providing the easiest way to ensure timely payment.  This also brings a host of benefits for you, including a significant competitive advantage.

Benefits to Merchants

  • Satisfy demand for payment card options
  • Reduce payment-related customer service calls
  • Improve cash flow and reduce exposure to lost payments and bad checks
  • Reduce delinquencies
  • Improve collections
  • Increase customer retention

Benefits to Cardholders

  • Convenience of setting up account payments once
  • Time savings from writing fewer checks
  • Relief from stress, knowing bills are paid on time
  • Cost savings on postage
  • Earning points/frequent flyer miles in eligible rewards programs