Price & VAT Changes: Good news, some bad, and more good news
The Good News - if you’re not VAT registered or able to reclaim VAT The good news (if you’re not VAT registered, or unable to reclaim VAT) is that HMRC has decided that the purchase of contactless donation units is now zero-rated for VAT. This means that we no longer...
Three Ways to Use Social Media to Boost Donations
A charity’s success depends on widespread public awareness. Fortunately, thanks to social media, promoting a cause is now easier than ever. When it comes to growing a network, social media’s potential is limitless: Data Reportal revealed that there were...
Automatically add your contactless donations into your donation management software
Data Developments is a, UK based, software company that has been designing and developing Gift Aid, Accounts and Administration software, specifically tailored to meet the needs of Churches and Charities, for over 35 years. The recent integration with...
London Zoo raising funds with CollecTin
London Zoo have installed our CollecTin More contactless donation units across their central London and Whipsnade sites. Donors can give with their cards to pay for the animal food. To mangle the catchphrase time to ’T-T-Tap up a penguin’ Here’s the BBC report BBC...
Churches and Mosques first to get back to (something like) normal
Over the last two months we’ve been supplying contactless donation units to many dozens of Churches and Mosques, as they start to re-open. Almost overnight most have completely stopped accepting cash donations, and switched to contactless as the preferred way of...
The end of the era of cash – a tipping point in the growth of contactless
Thresholds and Tipping Points I remember learning about thresholds and tipping points as part of my Geography degree. For natural as well as human systems, there often comes a point when a steady rate of change rapidly increases or decreases, as a threshold is met. ...
Enabling Covid 19 Mutual Aid groups to receive contactless payments
If you’re setting up or involved with a Covid 19 Mutual Aid group, then you’re probably thinking about what’s the best way for people to pay for their shopping. Of course the less contact the better, so the ideal is a bank transfer, or some other form of completely...
Contact (less) Donations and Coronavirus
You might think that contactless would be the ideal technology to help minimise, well, ‘contact’. And to a large extent you are right. Another reason not to collect cash Quite a few charities have been in touch to say they’re shifting away from cash donations, as it...
Google vs Apple – alternative strategic approaches, and why we don’t have to charge you a monthly fee
Google or Apple? Let's start by saying what I mean by ‘Google’ or ‘Apple’ strategies. Essentially I mean how many aspects of a service you try to provide. For a mobile phone that might be software, hardware and apps. Apple provide all the key stuff themselves, the...
Gift Aid and Contactless Donations
Not an Inspiring Start Gift Aid is so boring, but so important. It’s like the other evil twin of VAT! It makes such a difference, but fundamentally it’s so dull! So apologies that you have to read about it, and to be honest I’m a bit sorry for myself that I have to...