Payzone, Charity-led Development Used to Build Fit-for-purpose Platform
Payzone, Ireland’s largest consumer payments network, has launched a new ‘all-in-one’ fundraising platform to help charities, businesses, schools, and clubs better manage their fundraising activities. In development for over two years, Payzone aims to allow charities to fundraise in a more secure and efficient manner.
Payzone has facilitated electronic payments for over 20 years and is bringing over two decades of customer payments experience to the fundraising sector offering fundraisers support to securely incorporate digital transformation into their activity. Payzone bridges the physical and virtual worlds, allowing individuals and corporates to support their chosen causes using multiple digitally enabled tools for collecting funds.
According to the Giving Ireland 2022 report, the not-for-profit and charity sector raised nearly €1.71 billion in 2020, despite the challenges faced by COVID, with fundraised income representing 10% of the total income in the sector in 2020. Payzone provided crucial help to charities during this period, enabling donations that would typically happen in the physical world to keep flowing through digital mediums. This work formed the genesis that inspired and led to the development of the new fundraising platform now being launched.
Payzone prioritised input from the charity sector when developing this platform. Through their discussions with charities and their corporate partners, they recognised that many fundraising activities are being managed using multiple platforms which makes monitoring and reporting very challenging.
To date, monies fundraised by charities and non-profits have come from several sources, making them difficult to track, consolidate and measure impact. Payzone highlights how its new platform allows for all fundraising initiatives to be managed in one place, saving organisations both valuable time and money. For both charities and corporate partners, the platform promotes greater visibility on funds raised. The platform enables all fundraising activity to be tracked, monitored, and reported on within a single platform, with donations paid directly to the bank account of the charity.
In building out its new offering, Payzone has already successfully supported a number of other recent fundraising campaigns with charities such as Make-A-Wish Ireland, GOAL, Jack and Jill Children’s Foundation.
David Burns, Senior Fundraising Manager, GOAL said, “We partnered with Payzone to support our Corporate Partner, AIB, in its recent Ukraine appeal to staff which has raised €93k. We were really impressed with the platform and how it supported our relationship with AIB. We found Payzone’s fundraising solution easy and intuitive to use, clean and professional looking. The Payzone platform supported our own GOAL branding which increased our visibility in the partnership with AIB which is a unique feature to this platform.”
The team at Payzone are looking forward to attending The Wheel’s annual summit on 23 May in Croke Park. Payzone would be delighted to hear from charities about fundraising plans, platform challenges and how Payzone can support the important work that is being done in the sector.
About Payzone
Payzone is a leading multi-channel service provider, backed by AIB and Fiserv. For over 20 years, they have been connecting people to payments, processing millions of transactions through their payments network every year.
In 2022 alone, over €260m transactions were processed through the Payzone payments network. The company employs over 100 people, with a head office in Sandyford, Dublin.
Payzone’s solutions span the consumer, retail, and nonprofit sector.
With a retail payment network of 3,500 agents nationwide, debit & credit card processing solutions, a consumer app, and an online fundraising solution. Payzone builds technology for all.
Payzone is not just about making payments easier, they are about making every day easier.