In some sense, it doesn't matter much how they look to the organizations; if that's what the donors want, the donors can achieve most of them, as you demonstrated, with some work. I suspect that $1000 donations are rare enough to be paid some attention to.
I do think that avoiding spam (including paper junk mail) is an important issue to many donors. I know that my mother has complained a lot about the repeated "begging letters" she's getting from organizations she has a history of supporting.
From what I can tell (I have a commercial PayPal account myself, and worked on a web site for an organization that used conventional credit card processing), PayPal is a good deal for such organizations. No serious downside that I know of. They might want to *also* accept ordinary credit cards, because people less net-centric than us are less likely to have a PayPal account.
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Date: 2008-12-31 08:02 pm (UTC)I do think that avoiding spam (including paper junk mail) is an important issue to many donors. I know that my mother has complained a lot about the repeated "begging letters" she's getting from organizations she has a history of supporting.
From what I can tell (I have a commercial PayPal account myself, and worked on a web site for an organization that used conventional credit card processing), PayPal is a good deal for such organizations. No serious downside that I know of. They might want to *also* accept ordinary credit cards, because people less net-centric than us are less likely to have a PayPal account.