Many people wonder why they have to get transferred to PayPal to make a donation to Living Alternatives. Several reasons are listed below.
SECURITY - PayPal is one of the most trusted, secure websites on the internet. Because of it's reputation for security, a type of security that would be very difficult for us to replicate by creating our own merchant website, we have decided that as a service to our donors - as a means to protect their information in a time where identity theft is at an all time high - PayPal offers a secure merchant account for us.
COST EFFICIENCY - It costs money to process every credit card transaction. As it stands currently, using PayPal at this time allows us to use a higher percentage of your online gift directly for ministry costs and expenses.
FAMILIARITY - PayPal is well known and trusted. Because of this reputation, we have have chosen to partner with PayPal to collect online donations at this time.