Fundrazr: PayPal's Adaptive Account and Payment APIs Realized
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Canadian company ConnectionPoint is about to unveil its FundRazr Facebook application as the only service utilizing both PayPal X's Adaptive Account API and its Adaptive Payment API. Initially launched in private beta at TC50, Fundrazr allows users to collect fees and donations through Facebook.
While this may seem like a simple Groups tool, users can add members, create fundraising campaigns, generate reports, add organizational admin and most importantly, collect payments. Some of the groups who benefit from Fundrazr include sports teams, school clubs, charities and campaign managers. Members of the company's closed beta include major universities needing to charge fees, political candidates on the campaign trail and national nonprofits looking to overcome donor fatigue in a poor economy.
According to ConnectionPoint CEO Daryl Hatton, the beauty of using PayPal X is that users never have to leave the Fundrazr page to setup a PayPal account. Charities no longer have to redirect donors to external payment sites in order to collect their donations. Instead there's a frictionless process where donors have absolutely no reason to deny payment. To check out Fundrazr's newest feature releases visit the blog at blog.connectionpoint.ca. For an invite to the company's closed beta program email beta[at]fundrazr.com.
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such a good name!!!!!!! It sounds like a real word but with creative spelling.
A welcomed improvement. Their current APIs, are lacking in features and flexibility.But i was wondering one thing that by giving this type of liberty to developers to control the Paypal features aren't they making the transactions insecure?
Hi Vitamin A. We think the combination of FundRazr functionality and the new PayPal APIs actually make the transaction MORE secure. We've worked very closely with the PayPal product management team on this aspect and I can assure you they are HIGHLY focused on keeping the platform secure for their users while still making it easy for developers to create really cool applications.
Fundrazr is great! My favorite function is that charities no longer have to redirect donors to external payment sites in order to collect their donations. Good job guys!