{"id":5591,"date":"2013-03-29T16:58:34","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T16:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=5591"},"modified":"2013-03-29T16:58:34","modified_gmt":"2013-03-29T16:58:34","slug":"donation-app-platform-launches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=5591","title":{"rendered":"Donation app platform launches"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Alzheimer\u2019s Society, Paypal and Jadu have today launched a mobile app creation platform, free for one year only, that allows charities to create a donation app, which they hope will \u2018transform mobile donations\u2019 for the sector.<\/span><\/p>\n

Weejot Donate is free for all registered charities for the first year, after that it will charge \u00a3100 per month up to three apps, \u00a3200 for up to six and \u00a3250 for up to nine but smaller charities (income less than \u00a35m) may be eligible for a further free year.<\/p>\n

Suraj Kika, chief executive of Jadu said: \u2018With Weejot Donate, we aim to transform mobile donations in the UK. By providing a strong mobile donating platform for charities to take advantage of the rapid uptake of smartphones and touch screen devices, we hope to give the UK charity sector access to the rapidly growing mobile payments market.\u2019<\/p>\n

He said that ahead of today\u2019s launch, about seven major charities including Oxfam and the Blue Cross had signed up. ??Charities can create mobile apps, which live on the web browser rather than being downloaded from an appstore (bypassing Apple’s ban on donation apps), and users are then redirected to the Weejot page when they click \u2018donate\u2019 on the charity’s website when using a mobile device.<\/p>\n

Jadu promises that personalised apps can be built by fundraisers with little technical skill in \u2018less than an hour\u2019 and work across all mobile devices. Charities can also have more than one app linked to different campaigns.<\/p>\n

The three partners began working on the platform last September – Jadu built it based on its Weejot mobile app platform for businesses. It already provided the Alzheimer\u2019s Society\u2019s content management system and the charity said it wanted to do something with mobile.<\/p>\n

Once the app had been created it was decided to release it for the whole sector, Liz Monks director of fundraising at the charity said she hoped it would \u2018benefit the whole charity sector\u2019. ??She said: \u2018We\u2019re hugely excited to be the first charity to benefit from this app. There is not doubt that the current economic climate has made fundraising more challenging. However we can\u2019t ignore the fact that technology is changing and now is the time for us to consider how we can adapt to these changes.\u2019<\/p>\n

Monks added that in the last couple of years the charity had seen an increase in the number of people visiting the Alzheimer\u2019s Society website from mobile devices. The charity estimates that the figure is 10 per cent but that one of the key things the app will do is enable the charity to track traffic from mobiles more accurately. ??The charity also has a long standing relationship with PayPal – last year \u00a3130,000 came to the Alzheimer\u2019s Society through PayPal. A couple of years ago PayPal released its API to make it easier for easier for third party developers to integrate its platform into new services. PayPal also provided technical support to the Jadu development team.<\/p>\n

PayPal\u2019s standard payment processing fees for charities, 1.4 per cent plus 20p apply to donations made through Weejot apps. ??PayPal\u2019s global director of developer network, John Lunn described the platform as \u2018breakthrough\u2019 and added that: \u2018Almost 60 per cent of PayPal donations to Comic Relief this year were from smartphones and tablets.\u2019<\/p>\n

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