Online Payment Cost Calculator

In all of our articles about taking online payments (for instance, A Few Good Online Payment Multitaskers [2] or our Online Donation report [3]) we talk about the importance of estimating the size and volume of payments you expect in order to compare the costs of different vendors.

Andrew Page of MAPLight [4]did just that, and was kind enough to share his Excel model for calculating fees based on actual donations recieved. You'll likly need a bit of understanding of Excel and how Excel models typically work to use it, but it's a really nice framework that will help you think through the fees.

Download Andrew's Excel Online Payment Cost Calculator [5]

Thanks, Andrew!