Pricing
Flexible Fee Coverage That Works in Your Favor
PledgeStar offers a transparent, donor-friendly approach to low-cost or free fundraising for schools and teams. With our donor fee coverage option, your donors can choose to cover platform and credit card fees, so your fundraiser keeps more. These small, optional contributions add up fast, and many groups end up covering all of their costs this way. Unlike other platforms, with PledgeStar, you’re in control. You set the recommended coverage amount, and donors can choose whether or not to add it. No pre-checked boxes. No surprise charges. If enough donors opt in, your fundraiser could be fully covered, meaning PledgeStar costs you nothing. And the best part? Every extra dollar goes to your program, not to us.
Why only PledgeStar can help you squeeze every last dollar out of your fundraiser.
No upfront costs. No minimums.
After your event, we send you an invoice in the amount of 7% of the total donations received through our website, up to a maximum of $1,195.
Standard credit card processing fees (that don’t come from us).
When your donors pay by credit card, the processor deducts a standard fee of 49 cents per transaction plus 1.99% (for non-profits) of the transaction amount. These fees do not apply to donations made by cash or check.
What our “fee cap” means for you.
The $1,195 fee cap means that, as you raise more, the percentage of fundraising earnings that you keep increases. Use the Comparison Slider below to estimate how much you'll raise and keep, with PledgeStar vs. the competition, keeping in mind that you keep 100% of pledges made by cash or check. Simply adjust the sliders to your estimated total amount raised.
$5,000
FEES
With
PledgeStar:
$350
With anyone
Anyone
else:
$350
Wow! PledgeStar exceeded our expectations. We raised double what we did last year.
KIM MONACH, AMBUEHL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
