Take gifts in person and online, record Gift Aid and GASDS, and prepare HMRC claim files, all in one place.
Where it shows up
Collection, appeal table, event, or poster. The gift and the Gift Aid paperwork stay together.
Contactless payments
Android phone on the table. People tap. Gift Aid finishes on their phone if the queue is moving.
Recurring donations
A phone on the desk for a winter appeal or open day. One-off or monthly gifts, with Gift Aid recorded at the same time.
Activity mode
Fees and tickets as activities. Donations as Gift Aid campaigns. Same admin, two modes.
QR and remote giving
Supporters give on their own phone from a printed code or shared link. Same Gift Aid path as the kiosk.
The gap
Charities can take a contactless gift. Getting that gift onto a claim file, with Gift Aid or GASDS attached, is the part that usually breaks.
Purpose-built boxes add hundreds or thousands before the first gift. An Android phone or tablet can do the same job.
Paper forms, or sorting it later, means the declaration drifts away from the gift.
GASDS tallies and HMRC schedules get rebuilt by hand, so the claim stops matching what you collected.
They help remote giving. They do not turn a plate or appeal table into a Gift Aid point.
SwiftCause is built to close it.
How it works
Winter shelter appeal
Campaigns
Add a name, a target, a description and a cover image, then choose which devices show it.
Choose an amount
Ways to give
An Android phone or tablet becomes a donation point. Supporters tap a card or phone, or scan a printed QR code to give on their own phone.
Gift Aid declaration
Gift Aid and GASDS
Donors complete their declaration on the kiosk, or later from a link in their receipt email. Each donor receives a PDF copy of their declaration.
HMRC claims
HMRC claims
SwiftCause prepares your Gift Aid schedule in the format HMRC requires (R68). You check it, upload it through Charities Online, and mark the claim as paid when HMRC's payment arrives.
This month
Paid to charity bank ···4821
Money and reporting
Gifts land on your charity's payment account and pay out to your bank. The dashboard shows what each campaign is raising.
Audit trail
Append only. Kept 6 years.
Compliance
SwiftCause keeps the records a charity must keep, and logs every important change in an audit trail that cannot be edited.
Guides
FAQ
SwiftCause is a donation platform for UK charities. You can take donations in person and online, run several campaigns at once, record Gift Aid, and see all your fundraising in one dashboard.
When a UK taxpayer chooses to add Gift Aid, they complete the declaration on screen, so there are no paper forms. SwiftCause then prepares your claim file in the format HMRC requires (R68), ready for your treasurer to upload and claim the extra 25%.
The Gift Aid Small Donations Scheme (GASDS) lets eligible charities claim a 25% top-up on cash and contactless donations of £30 or less, without a Gift Aid declaration. You can claim on up to £8,000 of small donations a year, which is up to £2,000 in top-ups. There is one condition, the matching rule: in the same tax year, your small donations can be at most 10 times the donations you have claimed Gift Aid on. So for every £10 of small donations, you need at least £1 of donations with Gift Aid claimed. SwiftCause tracks GASDS-eligible donations for you.
No. Donors give by opening a link, scanning a QR code, or tapping a card or phone. They don't need to download an app or create an account.
Setup help, or whether SwiftCause fits how you fundraise. We aim to reply within one working day.
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