User story - Saint Ambassador
"The simplicity of using Crezco has meant we've spent less time trying to sort out donations coming in and increased the number of donations as a whole."
Michael O’Rourke
Company Director, Saint Ambassador
Company intro
Saint Ambassador is a foundation built towards building a brighter future for the Construction Industry. The foundation helps those across the UK both access and excel within the construction sector, either by connecting students to apprenticeships or helping those there retrain with professional bodies and training schools.
Key benefits
- Reconciliation
- Increased donations
- Gift Aid data
Challenge
As a non-profit, it can be hard to easily accept and track individual donations. It’s a real concern because the donators shouldn’t have any difficulty in donating and it is important funds raised always reach their purpose.
"Saint Ambassador is a non-profit, however, sometimes our Ambassadors or the candidates themselves want to donate to the foundation. We use these funds to fund events and distribute them to other amazing charities/foundations. We saw no simple way to do this... That is where Crezco comes in. Crezco allowed taking foundations to become simple and swift."
Saint Ambassador needed a simple and cost-efficient way to accept and track donations which equally covered due diligence on donators.
Solution
Saint Ambassador chose Crezco because it allows them to generate on the fly simple payment links and QR Codes. With Crezco, the foundation can accept payments anytime, anywhere.
"With Crezco, we simply have a QR code that anyone can scan and they can simply donate to the foundation. It's really that simple."
Unlike traditional providers, Crezco is an open banking solution providing direct account-to-account payments. That means there is no need to share your card details or account details to make a payment. Cherry on the cake, account-to-account payments are free, instant and come with an advanced fraud protection system.
Results
Because generating a QR code with a payment link is so easy with Crezco, the Saint Ambassador foundation has been able to collect more donations and spend less time reconciling payments for GiftAid and due diligence purposes.
"The simplicity of using Crezco has allowed Saint Ambassador to spend less time trying to sort out donations coming in and actually increase the number of donations as a whole."
With this partnership, the Saint Ambassador foundation joins thousands of companies and dozens of charities using Crezco to collect payments easily and instantly.
Next steps
Saint Ambassador will continue to raise funds to help those the design, build and maintain our schools, roads, hospitals and homes.
"We are looking for further expansion with the signup of Ambassadors every day. If we know we can help one more person, we'll be sure to do it!"
