Processing Fee Option

If you are using the donation form we provide (paypal, stripe) you can add an option for the person donating to pay the transaction fees. We have found that most people donating are happy to pay the transaction fees. But in this tutorial we make it optional so they have the choice.

You’ll want to add three fields to the donation form.

1. Add a radio button field with options:

Field name “Processing Fee”
Option 1 “Yes! I wish 100% of my donation amount to go to church name” < Make this option the default
Option 2 “no”

2. Add a product field with options:

Field name “Processing Fee Total”
Field Type “Calculation”
Disable quantity field selected
For the formula use the insert merge tag option to add the amount field. This is the field where they enter the donation amount. Then add ” * .029 + .30 ” to it so your calculation will look something like this:

{Amount:1} * .029 + .30

The {Amount:1} part will be added when you use the insert merge tag option to insert the amount field from your form. Yours may be different so don’t just copy and paste this formula. You need to use the insert merge tag option to add your amount field. Then 2.9% is the *.029 part of the formula then there’s a $0.30 per transaction fee that we add in the end. This is not perfect since we are calculating the transaction fee based on the entered amount so it’s not adding in the 2.9% of the transaction fee itself but it’ll be very close.

Then at the very bottom of the settings for this field click conditional logic and activate conditional logic. Set it to:

**Show** this field if **All** of the following match:
Processing Fee is not No

This is what removes the processing fee if people choose no on the processing fee option.

3. Add a total field from the pricing fields section so people can see the total donation amount with donation and processing fee.

Be sure to test it and confirm the calculations are correct.