How to Choose a Service to Process Donations Online

Summary:

IdealWare has a thorough discussion on the web.

This topic has been discussed several times over the years in the Nonprofit FAQ. There's lots of interesting material in those old articles.

But if you're looking for practical advice about how to choose among the various approaches to enabling online donations, then you probably want to read the advice provided by IdealWare at http://www.idealware.org/donations/.

The older articles have been archived and are accessible through a single FAQ item -- http://www.idealist.org/npofaq/0/1547.html.