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Donations behave differently from sales, and some of the pricing available to not-for-profits is genuinely better — but it tends to be given on request rather than offered.
Concessional arrangements for registered charities do exist at several levels of the payments chain. They are not usually part of a standard quote, and nobody volunteers them.
If you have registered status, it should be on the table before you sign anything. The worst outcome of asking is a no.
A regular monthly donation is a stored-credential transaction, priced and handled differently from a one-off tap. Expiring cards and failed rebills are the quiet source of attrition in a regular giving program.
How a provider handles a declined recurring payment — whether it retries, and whether it tells you — matters more to your income than a small rate difference.
Fixed-amount tap points and event terminals are usually needed in bursts rather than year round. Short-term or seasonal arrangements exist and are worth asking for rather than carrying a full year of rental for a few weeks of use.
Tell us what you trade as and roughly what you turn over on cards. We quote it across the panel and are straight with you about whether it is worth moving.