Charities, schools, and healthcare providers face the same PCI DSS rules as a high-street bank. The card brands don't care that you're a registered charity or an under-funded trust. If a volunteer takes a donor's card number over the phone, your telephony and your donor database are in scope.
And you're running on budgets and teams that weren't built for enterprise compliance. No in-house QSA. No pen-testing line item. Often no dedicated IT team at all. You need the same protection the big players use, at a price that doesn't eat into the work you're actually here to do.
A breach in this sector isn't just a cost. It's a trust hit with donors, parents, or patients — the exact people whose confidence you depend on to operate.
Paytia sits between your phone and your payment gateway. When a donor gives over the phone, a parent pays a school trip fee, or a patient settles a bill, they enter their card on their own keypad while still talking to your team. The keypad tones are masked in real time. Your volunteer, teacher, or receptionist hears nothing identifiable. The card data goes straight to the gateway — it never touches your donor database, your student records, or your patient management system.
Donor attribution stays intact. Gift Aid still flows. Student records still match the transaction. Patient billing still reconciles. The only thing that changes is where the card number lives — and it doesn't live with you any more.
Pricing is scaled to your size. A small community charity pays a small community price. A national fundraising operation pays for the volume it handles. You get the same PCI DSS Level 1 platform the big financial firms use, priced for the sector you're actually in. If you want the charity-specific breakdown, our dedicated charity payment solutions page walks through donation flows, Gift Aid handling and volunteer-friendly setup.
Different missions, same constraint: tight budgets, high trust, and card data that doesn't belong in your systems.
Charities, fundraisers, foundations, and community organisations. Keep donor card data out of your systems while preserving Gift Aid, donor attribution, and reporting.
Learn moreSchools, colleges, universities, and multi-academy trusts. Take tuition, trip fees, and fundraising payments without dragging student records systems into PCI scope.
Learn morePrivate practices, clinics, dentists, and healthcare groups. Protect patient card data with the same rigour you already apply to patient records.
Learn moreSAQ A
From SAQ D (329 → 22)
Scaled
Pricing to org size
Zero
Card data in your records
Gift Aid
Claims flow untouched
Paytia has helped us turn a security exposure and reputational risk into a value-enhancing opportunity. Fundraising has never been more important and Paytia has helped us achieve our goals.
Trinity Hall College
Cambridge University
Yes. We work with charities of every size — from national fundraising operations down to single-site community organisations. There's no hardware to install and no in-house PCI knowledge needed. Our team handles the setup, walks your trustees through the compliance angle, and provides ongoing support.
Almost certainly. Paytia plugs into your existing payment gateway, so whatever system records the donation, the tuition fee, or the patient payment keeps working exactly as it does today. We've integrated alongside Salesforce NPSP, Blackbaud, Raiser's Edge, school MIS platforms, and most patient management systems.
Yes. Paytia doesn't change how the donation is recorded or attributed — only how the card details are captured. Your donor database still gets the transaction, the donor declaration, and the Gift Aid flag exactly as it does now. Nothing in the HMRC process changes.
Paytia only touches payment data, not patient records. Because the card details go straight to your gateway without crossing your systems, there's no overlap with patient confidentiality or NHS Digital obligations. For private healthcare handling mixed patient and payment data, that separation is the thing most providers are looking for.
Yes. We scale pricing to the size and transaction volume of the organisation. A small community charity pays a lot less than a national fundraiser, and a single-site school pays a lot less than a multi-academy trust. The platform is the same — the pricing meets you where you are.
Book a demo sized for your organisation. Pricing scales to your mission, not to enterprise budgets you don't have.
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