On 17 September 2011 08:46, Gordon Joly
<gordon.joly(a)pobox.com> wrote:
We have just switched from annual to monthly for our "family"
RSPB membership payment.
Instead of 25 quid we pay 3 x 12 = 36 quid: we can spread the
payments and the RSPB gets an 11 quid bonus.
RSPB was mentioned by Anonymouse at the last London Wikimeet
(#49) as a good model of membership for a charity.
*****
* Over a million members, including over 195,000 youth
members.
* A staff of over 1,300 people and over 13,000
volunteers.
* Resources available for charitable purposes in 2007
was £78.6 million.
*****
Ha! Small fry!
Gordo
On 16/09/2011 23:19, WereSpielChequers wrote:
Monthly and quarterly are nice to haves, but
presumably most
members will want to do an annual payment for their annual
renewal?
WereSpielChequers
On 16 September 2011 23:05, Michael Peel
<michael.peel(a)wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
We're working on finding an easy way to give donors
the choice of monthly or quarterly direct debits,
but we haven't got it working quite yet. For now, if
you want to donate by direct debit each month, then
you can do so by visiting:
http://directdebit.wikimedia.org.uk/index_monthly.html
Hopefully we'll have a more integrated solution
working in the near future.
Thanks,
Mike
On 16 Sep 2011, at 22:59, Chris Keating wrote:
This is fantastic! Well done!
Thank you. We have taken a shortcut, which is to
outsource the absolute
maximum of the administration
involved in Direct Debiting. Once we are on a firmer
administrative footing we can bring it back in-house
if needs be.
Hmmm... I just tried to set up a direct debit and
it seems the only
option for the frequency is quarterly. I want to
donate monthly. Why
can't I? Obviously, the fees are greater for
3
donations of £2, say,
than for one donation of £6, but I think
you'll
get a lot more takers
if you offer monthly direct debits for the simple
reason that people
tend to be paid monthly.
We are set up for monthly and quarterly direct
debits. I'm not quite
sure why that form insists on
quarterly, I doubt it will continue to insist after
we speak to the suppliers on Monday, as we have
other test forms that are definitely accepting
monthly DDs.
You're right about the advantage of monthly DDs.
during the fundraiser
we'll test prompting different
amounts/frequencies and different layouts of form to
see which gives us the best long-term income.
Chris
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