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 "schema_version": "1.0",
 "id": "zeffy",
 "name": "Zeffy",
 "research_status": "researched",
 "vendor_domain": "zeffy.com",
 "category": "Financial Operations",
 "task": "Paying bills & getting paid",
 "summary": "Fundraising, ticketing and donation payments for nonprofits with no platform, transaction or card-processing fees. The model is an optional tip prompt shown to your donors at checkout, which they can set to zero. Weigh that against the percentage paid platforms take from every donation.",
 "best_for": "small and mid-size nonprofits that want donations, ticketing, memberships and payments without any fee eating the mission's money",
 "skip_if": "your organization objects to donor-facing tip prompts on principle, or you need enterprise CRM-grade donor management built in",
 "honest_knock": "The honest scrutiny of 'free': the tip prompt is shown to YOUR donors, with suggested percentages. Most give happily, but some organizations feel it inserts a step between donor and cause, and a donor who tips 10% effectively paid a fee, just voluntarily and not from your share. Compare that trade against the 2-5% the paid platforms take from every donation, and for most small nonprofits the math strongly favors Zeffy.",
 "pricing": {
  "status": "see_details",
  "entry_price": null,
  "entry_price_terms": null,
  "from_price_usd_month": null,
  "plans": null,
  "plans_source": null,
  "notes": "(re-verified 2026-09-09 and re-read 2026-09-27 on zeffy.com/home/free-online-fundraising-platform) Still genuinely $0 for nonprofits: no platform fee, no transaction fee and no card-processing fee on donations, ticketing, shops, raffles, auctions, peer-to-peer or memberships. Zeffy states it covers transaction and credit-card fees itself and earns only from the optional tip donors are offered at checkout. Their own scale claim on that page: 100,000 nonprofits have raised $2B on Zeffy over seven years without paying a fee.",
  "verified_at": "2026-09-27",
  "source_url": "https://www.zeffy.com/home/free-online-fundraising-platform",
  "schema_offer": null,
  "source_quotes": null,
  "recent_change": null,
  "price_history": null
 },
 "free_plan": true,
 "free_plan_evidence": "(re-verified 2026-09-09 and re-read 2026-09-27 on zeffy.com/home/free-online-fundraising-platform) Still genuinely $0 for nonprofits: no platform fee, no transaction fee and no card-processing fee on donations, ticketing, shops, raffles, auctions, peer-to-peer or memberships.",
 "cost_traps": [],
 "compare_with": {
  "name": "Givebutter or Donorbox",
  "why": "the close 'free/tip-funded' and low-fee peers: compare the donor checkout experience and what each layers on top of payments"
 },
 "links": {
  "record": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/api/v1/products/zeffy.json",
  "review": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/b2b/zeffy-review/",
  "marketplace": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/marketplace/zeffy/",
  "vendor_site": "https://zeffy.com"
 },
 "purchase": {
  "seller": "the vendor",
  "how": "AIBuilder Marketplace does not sell this software. Sign up, start a trial or buy on the vendor's site.",
  "handoff_url": "https://join.zeffy.com/d8gjswsqntkf",
  "affiliate": true,
  "disclosure": "Where purchase.affiliate is true, purchase.handoff_url is an affiliate link: AIBuilder Marketplace may earn a commission at no extra cost to the buyer. Commission never changes what a record says, and products are not ranked by commission. Where it is false the link is the vendor's plain site."
 },
 "provenance": {
  "research": "hand-researched dossier, read on the vendor's own pages",
  "researched_since": "2026-07",
  "method": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/how-we-review/",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0. Credit 'AIBuilder Marketplace' with a link to https://aibuildermarketplace.com/atlas/.",
  "note": "A rebuild is not a new measurement: pricing.verified_at is the date that matters."
 },
 "cost": {
  "status": "not_yet",
  "engine": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/agents/#cost",
  "rules": null,
  "growth": null
 },
 "unknowns": [
  "Pricing status is 'see_details': no single public entry price.",
  "Plan-by-plan prices are not structured in this record yet; pricing.notes has the full text.",
  "Contract terms (cancellation, data export, data location, minimum seats) are not researched as separate fields; pricing.notes mentions them only where the vendor's pricing page does.",
  "Being verified: free trial and refund terms are not yet matched to a verbatim line on the vendor's own pages. Not matched does not mean there is none.",
  "No computable price rules yet: cost at a given team size cannot be calculated for this product.",
  "Not tested hands-on by us: what the product does comes from the vendor's pages and our reading of them."
 ],
 "verification": {
  "price": "read",
  "free_trial": "being_verified",
  "refund": "being_verified"
 },
 "status_page": null,
 "task_evidence": null,
 "open_questions": [
  {
   "question_id": "zeffy:cancellation_terms",
   "key": "cancellation_terms",
   "question": "Can a customer cancel at any time, and what happens to an annual plan that is cancelled mid-term?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "zeffy:data_export",
   "key": "data_export",
   "question": "Which data can a customer export, in which formats, on which plans?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "zeffy:data_location",
   "key": "data_location",
   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "zeffy:minimum_seats",
   "key": "minimum_seats",
   "question": "Is there a minimum number of seats or users on any plan?",
   "status": "open"
  }
 ],
 "vendor_answers": [],
 "agent_channels": {
  "vendor_mcp": null,
  "agent_checkout": {
   "status": "not_found",
   "detail": "No explicit support for purchases by AI agents on the vendor's own pages.",
   "checked_at": "2026-10-07",
   "method": "homepage, /pricing and the pricing page we cite, read as plain HTML (no JavaScript) and searched for explicit support of purchases by AI agents: Agentic Commerce Protocol, Instant Checkout, Agent Payments Protocol, buy in ChatGPT, agentic checkout"
  }
 }
}