"Many smaller nonprofits who receive online payments for event tickets or fundraising campaigns do so exclusively through PayPal because of its affordability and universality, but they don't have in-house personnel who can create a polished customer-facing portal," explained Acceptiva president John Tedeschi. "Our new functionality enables them to utilize our design and reporting services with no monthly service fee while still working with PayPal."

Operating at acceptiva.com, the company provides secure online donation and payment forms that not-for-profit concerns, like charities and religious institutions, can host on their own websites. The Seattle-based business fills an important niche, because organizations staffed by philanthropists and volunteers often do not have the necessary IT savvy to set up secure, well-designed, multi-platform online payment forms. Acceptiva offers a $99 monthly fee plan and a small per-transaction fee with no set-up charge and a no-monthly-fee plan with slightly higher per-transaction costs and a $25 setup charge.

"Any nonprofit needs to fundraise and in today's world, they need their donors to feel comfortable making payments from any device. Our customer service team works with them to develop a secure form customized to their specific needs," said Tedeschi. "Then we provide them extensive data after the donation so they can easily reconcile their books and also effectively reach out to those donors again for future initiatives."