Online giving pages
Mobile-friendly donation pages on your own website, with one-time and recurring gifts.
Nonprofits and Ministries
Take gifts online and fund your mission through your community's businesses.
Organizations need two things from payments: an easy way for donors to give, and steady funding that does not depend on the next campaign. BrightStar provides both.
01What you need
Built around your workflow.
Event payments
Take cards at galas, tournaments and fundraisers from a phone or handheld.
Recurring gifts
Monthly giving that runs on its own, with expired cards updated automatically.
An Impact Network of your own
Local businesses that switch processing can designate your organization, adding a monthly donation for each one.
02Recommended hardware
Devices that fit.
A starting point. We match hardware to how you take payments, and keep your current equipment where it makes sense.
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Clover Flex Pocket
Handheld with payments built in
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Clover Go
Card reader for a phone or tablet
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Square Reader, Contactless and Chip
Tap and chip, wireless
03Platform
The tools you will use most.
Recurring Billing
Subscriptions and payment plans that run on their own. Expired cards update automatically, so revenue does not stall.
Payment Link
Send a secure link by email or message and get paid without an invoice or a terminal.
Mobile
Accept cards wherever you work: job sites, markets, events. From a phone or tablet.
Text to Pay
Send a payment request by text and let customers pay from their phone in seconds.
04Impact
Every sale funds a cause.
This is where the Impact Network started. BrightStar has supported local ministries including Mercy Support Services, The Father's Heart, The Florida Striders and Seamark Ranch.
See the networkCost to you$0 extra
RateMatch or beat, in writing
DonationMonthly, in your name
Flagship platform
Run your nonprofits business on BizSimple.
BizSimple relabels itself for nonprofits and ministries and adds what you need as free add-ons: point of sale, online store, booking, automations and an AI assistant.
05Impact calculator
Your numbers, estimated.
Set your monthly volume and average sale. Add last month's fees for a sharper comparison.
Effective rate today
3.10%
Projected with BrightStar
2.35%
Estimated savings, per year
$3,599
Donated to your cause, per year
$368
Where your monthly processing fees go
$940.06
- Card networks and issuing banks$786.70
- BrightStar operations and support$122.69
- Donated to your cause$30.67
If 25 businesses like yours joined one organization's network, it would receive about $9,202 a year.
At this volume we would match your current rate, guaranteed in writing. The donation still comes from our side of the margin.
Illustrative estimate built on typical interchange costs. Your real numbers depend on card mix and how you take payments. A statement review gives the exact comparison and donation.
Guides
Read before you switch.
- For organizations · 6 min
Recurring Funding Without a Campaign: A Guide for Ministries and Schools
How community organizations can build a monthly income line from the businesses that already support them, with no events, appeals or cost.
- For organizations · 5 min
Church and Ministry Giving: Card Payments, Online Giving and Recurring Gifts
A practical guide for churches and ministries on accepting cards, setting up online and recurring giving, and keeping processing costs and stewardship in view.
- For organizations · 5 min
School and Booster Club Fundraising Without Selling Anything
Fundraising ideas for schools, PTOs and booster clubs that do not involve catalogs, cookie dough or door-to-door sales, plus how to build recurring support.
Next step
Send us a recent statement.
That is the whole first step. We come back with a side-by-side comparison and the exact monthly donation your account would generate. If we cannot beat what you have, we will tell you that too.
