# Technology Trust gives low cost access to Shopify to UK charities

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2015/06/09/technology-trust-gives-low-cost-access-to-shopify-to-uk-charities/
- Published: 2015-06-09T13:07:59+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Ecommerce service Shopify has joined Technology Trust’s tt-exchange programme,
meaning that UK charities can now set up an online shop to raise funds for just 
5% of the standard charge.**

Shopify enables you to create an online shop, manage inventory, handle payments,
analyse sales performance, and integrate the resultant data with a variety of other
tools including Mailchimp and Salesforce.

It can also be used to accept payments at offsite events and physical stores by 
running the Shopify point-of-sale (POS) system on an iPad.

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Charities that are eligible can gain access to Shopify’s Unlimited Plan for one 
year by paying a single  must pay a single administration fee. This is £66 for charities
with an annual income of less than £300,000, and £132 for charities with a larger
annual income. After that first year charities have the option of downgrading their
plan whilst still enjoying a nonprofit discount.

Since 2006 [Shopify](http://www.shopify.com) has handled over $8 billion in online
sales for over 165,000 merchants. UK Fundraising has used it for several years to
run its [online shop of fundraising advice](http://ukfundraising.myshopify.com/).

The [tt-exchange](http://www.technology-trust.org/tt-exchange/) service offers technology
products and services to charities at a steep discount.

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