Using email to help collect your club’s money is great. It’s fast, convenient, and well-understood as a communication method (it should be — the first email is nearly 50 years old!). However, it’s not perfect.
The chances are you’re gathering your members’ email addresses by hand. Either you’re typing them in, or they are, somewhere, and it’s easy to make a mistake. A “.com” instead of a “.co.uk”. The address they gave you a couple of years back might no longer be valid. …
As a treasurer or membership secretary, there are lots of ways you can ask members to pay the club. We’ve seen organisations switch to digital options during the COVID-19 pandemic, to reduce in-person contact at training or rehearsal. Let’s look at the main payment methods, and their pros and cons:
Payment methods
Cash and cheques
These are the most time-consuming for you, and potentially the most expensive. You’ll have to record the payment in the club’s accounts and physically visit the bank in order to deposit the payments. Some banks have made this easier by incorporating cheque clearing by photo in their apps, so at least that saves you the trip for those. Banks will normally apply a charge for accepting cash and cheque deposits, so check what those are and factor them into your club’s subscriptions or fees accordingly. …
Payzip is a safe, simple way to collect money for your organisation. That might be a football club, a choir, a hockey league, a national athletics governing body, or pretty much any other (legal!) member-based organisation.
It works by defining what you need to collect money for, and how much, then it helps you quickly customise and send those invoices to your whole team, a group, or individual members.
Payzip’s focus is on simplicity, so you can get going, get paid, and get on with something else.
We’ve been working with UK organisations like yours for over 7 years, and we understand that collecting money is not just a function — there’s a lot of social capital and reputation at risk as well. You need to be able to have confidence in the payments solution you propose. Payzip has never missed a payout to a customer, and our payouts are always backed by a full breakdown of what they include. …
