Chip-In: Build Charitable Giving Into Every Credit Card Transaction

You may have heard of round-up charitable promotions enabling people at checkout to round up their purchases for donations to select causes. This service donates to charities out of credit card fees, not consumer pockets.

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The Chip In payment processing service automatically contributes a portion of credit card processing fees to a good cause. Merchants who use Chip In can donate a portion of their fees to a charity of their choice, empowering businesses to participate in the economy of giving with every swipe of a credit card, says the founder, Gregg Garfield, Founder and CEO of the Los Angeles-based company.

For example, he says his company has helped a major ski area support local causes, such as providing affordable housing for seasonal workers. The fees come out of processing fees, so add no cost to the merchant or consumers. Those contributions can add up with an organization the size of a popular ski area Garfield says.

Garfield highlights the following benefits:

Community engagement: Chip In enables merchants to strategically target causes that help the community in a way that provides a virtuous circle.
Competitive rates. He says Chip In offers competitive processing rates and excellent customer service.
No extra setup fees. Regardless of company size or industry, there is no extra setup work required to process with Chip In.
Monthly donations: Chip In donates a percentage of the processing fees to the selected charity each month, allowing merchants to give back without the cost of giving.
State of the art security: Chip In provides end-to-end encryption, tokenization, and a suite of digital commerce solutions for virtually any business.
Custom solutions: Chip In creates customized solutions with the tools needed to achieve optimal business growth.
Seamless Integration: Chip In makes setting up payment processing integrations painless with no downtime.
Support for non-profits: Chip In provides its merchants with pre-certified nonprofits so that merchants can easily donate on a recurring basis.

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