giving the option for donors to cover a credit card fee-- percentage of donation

[naomisl]

There is a cool feature on some other organization's websites that I would like to emulate. On them, once you choose a donation amount the credit card fees that will be charged to the organization are shown the donor is asked if they would like to cover these costs as well. For example, a donor types $50 in as the contribution amount. Below it is a question: "Organization will be charged a 2.5% credit card fee for this transaction. This comes to $1.25 for your contribution. Would you like to cover these costs?" Choosing yes then adds that to the original donation, making the total $51.25.

My question-- Has anyone managed this with CiviContribute? How would you suggest going about it? 

[Kurund Jalmi]

Have you considered using price sets? So you can basically you will have a option for donation and may be additional checkbox to cover credit card fees.

Kurund

[wtheaker]

This is something we're interested in too. I tried with price sets on demo.civicrm.org, but wasn't able to figure out a way to dynamically calculate processing fees.

[Kurund Jalmi]

I don't think you can automate or dynamically calculate processing fees without some custom coding. So if you have fixed donation options, you might want to give options like

[ ] $50
[ ] $52 (inclusive of processing fees)

or if you processing fees are fixed upto some amount

[ ] $10
[ ] $20
[ ] $30

[ ] add $2 to cover processing fees

Hth

Kurund

[naomisl]

Intersting! Perhaps I will just add a price set that covers a "standard" processing fee. It's too bad that there isn't currently a way to dynamically calculate it though. Perhaps I'll play with programming...do you have any hints as to where one would start with a project like that?

[Laryn]

@naomisl - did this project go anywhere? I am curious about the same and am not getting much traction over at StackExchange yet.

I am wondering perhaps if it would be relatively painless to do a custom Drupal module combined with the Webform-CiviCRM integration and implement some post-processing code on the form, but I haven't looked into that too deeply and am not certain how easy it would be to post-process the contribution amount and still have webform_civicrm submit it to the payment processor.