FAQ

SimplyPledge is an all-around online service that helps donors like you give to the charities you love with improved privacy, transparency, and simplicity. We provide an easy form of transaction, process / fill out extra forms, protect your personal information, and even provide bookkeeping and newsletters services for you to stay up-to-date with your charities' activities. Our primary goal is to make donating just that much easier.

SimplyPledge allows you to make recurring donations to multiple charities with a few clicks. We take credit cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay, and a variety of other payment methods for your convenience. For ease of transaction, SimplyPledge also provides form completion services and tax information. Additionally, our team bookkeeps your donations, sending periodical newsletters on your donations and the current news/updates surrounding the charities you support. As SimplyPledge grows, more and more services will be added for your convenience.

All of us at SimplyPledge are heavily involved in non-profit volunteering-based activities at Duke, from religious groups to philosophical clubs. However, there was a common problem that bugged us; why is it so complicated to donate. Buying something is such an easy process, but for some reason donating is so arduous and arbitrarily complex. Furthermore, we saw the local nonprofits we loved struggling to set up efficient services; if only they could just receive all of their money in easily processable checks.

On every transaction, there will be a flat fee of 30 cents and another fee of 3.2%. Part of this fee covers for the secure transactional tools, powered by Stripe, used to allow for safe user donations. The other part is service fees for server costs, charity research, development, and bookkeeping.

The SimplyPledge team, upon receiving your pledge amount through credit card, will distribute your donation to the charities you pledged to via check. This is the preferred method of donation for the vast majority of charities, as it is cost-free for charities.

Security and privacy are huge aspects of our brand; after all, we want to make donating easy and secure for everyone. Thus, your most sensitive information will be securely encrypted on our databases and inaccessible to charities that you donate to (unless otherwise specified).

We are working to create a Donor Advised Fund (DAF). Many of our customers want tax benefits with donations. When we establish a DAF, our customers will be able to take an immediate tax deduction.