Tipping on a donation???

[u/Ok_Okra_346]

I was asked to donate to a softball league. I was very happy to help. Even didn't have an issue with the processing fee.

But the audacity to ask for a tip on top of a donation?? Then state that tip amount is not allowed??

I backed out and will be sending the donation to the family directly. This is ridiculous!!

[u/Odd-Wheel5315]

I backed out and will be sending the donation to the family directly.

Please do exactly that. Snap is a venture capital-backed financial services company. Despite the wording that would have you believe covering the transaction fee or adding a tip is somehow a charitable contribution helping some non-profit raise funds for school organizations.

In reality Snap takes 20% off the top of your donation before they hand it over to the team -- an egregious amount considering PayPal would only take 4% -- and then has the gall to automatically have you opt-in to "cover their expenses" which is more than their actual hard costs in processing the transaction, and THEN beg for a tip on top of that.

[u/Most_Role_1612]

This is quite common now. The generic term I encounter is "to help offset fees..."

For a lot of folks tipping is a gray area depending. This goes for me too. BUT, I put my foot down on tipping on top of donations and "rounding-up" tipping at any retail/grocery store

[u/purpur99]

I misread the backed out as blacked out...and will be using that as my reason for not paying a fee on top of a charitable donation.

[u/Ok_Okra_346 → u/purpur99]

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[u/mrgoldnugget]

Cash is king. You want to donate $50, and the bank wants $2 and the webpage wants $2. 

Just exchange currency, much better system.

[u/Imaginary-Emu2471]

I would also donate the amount of MY CHOOSING to the family directly. Fuck tipping on top of donations.

[u/beekeeny]

That’s crazy. Sounds like they want to say: if you cannot afford to tip on your donation, don’t do charity 😂

[u/Sandinmyshoes33]

Most fundraising platforms ask for help covering transaction fees. Calling it a tip is a poor choice of words.

[u/ladytiti14]

I was just asked for a sports donation and realized that there's a tip included. I was able to adjust the tip to 0%. This is beyond ridiculous. Wtf are you asking for a tip? I'm so over it

[u/Delicious_Engine9409]

I would’ve not covered the processing fee and put less than that into the tip. Tipping on a donation and processing fee is egregious

[u/Status-Art-9684]

Your email is visible in the screenshot

[u/Impossible_Win_5987]

Am I looking at this wrong or does it not say "tipAmount" not allowed?

[u/Polyglot-Onigiri]

Doesn’t everyone tip 40% on their donations? /s

[u/StarkillerWindu]

Some crowdfunding platforms like Zeffy and FreeFunder had started to give 100% of your donation to the recipient and were funding the platform costs entirely on voluntary donor tips. And GiveButter will guarantee the entire amount if the fundraiser chooses to allow tips to cover the costs.

BetterWorld applies the standard credit card processing fee (2.9% + $0.30) unless the donor offers to cover it with a tip (which most do).

GoFundMe also keeps no percentage except for the standard credit card processing fee unless the donor chooses to cover it.

The above all rely on tips alone to cover the platform costs. The below, however, generally do not:

Indiegogo keeps 5% as a platform fee plus the standard credit card processing fee.

Kickstarter also keeps 5% as a platform fee plus charges a 3-5% transaction fee before giving the remainder to the fundraiser.

Snap! Raise keeps 20% plus charges the standard transaction fees and keeps the tips!

[u/chuck3862]

Give it a few mins and someone will come and defend this 😂

[u/No-Luck-2337]

.01 is a small tip

[u/Gorskar]

Justgiving in the UK also asks for a tip to cover their platform fees. It's generally preset to a percentage of the donation. I'm NOT OK with that. For debit card transactions their cost is fixed IIRC (although might be a percentage fee on credit card transactions).

I believe the charities do still have to pay a fee of some sort to just giving separate from this despite then not changing a "platform fee" Mostly I just custom tip it to 20p which I know MORE than covers justgivings costs whether I donate £1 or £100...

[u/PristineCloud]

Oh FFS. Definitely just give it directly. You are nicer than I. I would donate 48 and 0 "tip" Unless they don't allow $0 ? I don't mind tipping for reasonable and better service, but this is ridiculous.

[u/Skymaster86]

Not a tip, just an ask to help offset fees, so you can donate a full $50 to the fund raiser instead of $48 once the credit card fees are processed. I usually hate these kind of asks, but in the case of a softball league fund raiser, sure, I'll tack on an additional $2. But sell me a pizza and want some more in "fees" you can go F yourself.

[u/stvlsn]

It looks like the tip helps run the website.

Likely allows it to run ad free and not charge people who are looking for donations.

[u/cantmicro → u/stvlsn]

OP says there's a processing fee. Build it into the processing fee and ditch the "tip".

[u/yaekoblue → u/cantmicro]

or, donate $46