Running a charity or not-for-profit in Aotearoa means making every dollar and every minute count. You want your team focused on driving your cause forward, not wrestling with complex administration or chasing up failed donations. Paystation provides straight up merchant payment solutions designed to help you collect funds securely and efficiently.
As a Trade Me subsidiary, we offer a trusted payment gateway nz infrastructure built specifically for the local market. From simple donation buttons to complex recurring giving programmes, we give you the exact tools you need to accept credit card payments effortlessly.
If your charity collects donations through a website, we highly recommend our fully hosted (3-party) setup. When a supporter is ready to make an online payment, we redirect them to a secure Paystation page to enter their credit card details. We even host bespoke donation pages for some of New Zealand’s most trusted charities, including the SPCA and the Cancer Society.
Using our fully hosted pages offers major benefits for non-profits:
Charities rely on the steady support of regular givers. If you manage monthly donations, our back-office tools take the headache out of recurring billing.
We use tokenisation to securely encrypt and store donor card data. We swap the sensitive credit card numbers for a unique token, meaning you can process regular, automated donations seamlessly without raw numbers ever sitting in your local environment. If you have a high volume of regular givers, our batch processing tools are built for scale and can reliably handle over 30 transactions per second.
Running a special appeal or a fundraising dinner? Our PayMe tool lets you generate unique, secure payment URLs that you can email directly to your supporters. It is the perfect way to send a digital invoice for a corporate table sponsorship or a targeted donation drive, allowing donors to pay instantly from their phone or computer.
When your supporters generously give their money, they trust you to keep their financial data safe. We don’t mess around with security. Paystation is a Level 1 PCI DSS Service Provider, meaning we meet the absolute highest global standards for card data encryption.
We know that keeping overheads low is essential for charities so that more money goes directly to your cause. We offer dedicated ‘Charity / Not for Profit’ account plans tailored to the unique needs of your sector. We also do not lock you into fixed-term contracts on our standard plans.
To use us as your payment provider, you just need a merchant facility and a ‘Linked Gateway’ Merchant ID from your local bank. We work directly with all major New Zealand banks—including ANZ, ASB, BNZ, Kiwibank, and Westpac—to ensure your funds are settled fast.
Getting your charity set up to take donations is as easy as one, two, three:
