Attaching a charity to business

[julie anne]

I'm starting a new craft business and want to attach a charity or a choice of two charities when someone purchases something. How do you send in your donations (do you do it at the end of the year)? Basically wanting to know how you keep track, so if I say 10% of a purchase goes towards a particular charity. Would you stick to one charity or is there a downside to offering a choice between two charities?

[kokonutmama]

I use Change Round Up on one of my retail sites. They keep track of everything for me and send me a "bill" for the donations I've collected during the period. It's very smooth. Customers just click the charity of their choice (our of 4 that I've chosen to include) and the amount they wish to donate. It shows on their invoice underneath shipping. I collect the money and then send it to Change Round Up. Change Round Up keeps 10% for their administrative fee and doles out the rest to the appropriate charities.

I've been pleased with it. I'll guestimate that 25% of my customers choose to donate, and the average donation is about $1.