{"id":1947,"date":"2018-02-26T20:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.betaalvereniging.nl\/en\/?p=1947"},"modified":"2026-08-07T00:53:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T22:53:41","slug":"donors-give-more-by-debit-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betaalvereniging.nl\/en\/news\/donors-give-more-by-debit-card\/","title":{"rendered":"Donors give more generously by debit card"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-intro-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">During fundraising collections, donors give more generously by debit card than in cash. The average donation to a collection box that accepts only cash is \u20ac1.50, compared with \u20ac3.75 for an electronic collection box.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"619\" height=\"348\" src=\"https:\/\/www.betaalvereniging.nl\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/09\/Ambassadeurs-collectebus-619x348-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Group of enthusiastic collectors and ambassadors on an athletics track, posing with collection collection boxes Collection 2.0 in front of large inflatable POS terminal.\" style=\"object-fit:cover;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.betaalvereniging.nl\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/09\/Ambassadeurs-collectebus-619x348-1.jpg 619w, https:\/\/www.betaalvereniging.nl\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/09\/Ambassadeurs-collectebus-619x348-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.betaalvereniging.nl\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/09\/Ambassadeurs-collectebus-619x348-1-500x282.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 619px) 100vw, 619px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The most generous donors live in the municipality of The Hague, where the average debit card donation is \u20ac7. They are followed by donors in Bussum, who give an average of \u20ac6.70, and Aalsmeer, where the average is \u20ac5.65. These are interim research results from eleven charitable funds, which took 500 electronic collection boxes to 50 municipalities between September and December 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"728\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.betaalvereniging.nl\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/10\/Factsheet-elektronisch-collecteren-728x1024-1.jpg\" alt=\"Infographic on electronic fundraising collection boxes: 24% of donations are made by debit card and 76% in cash. The average donation is \u20ac3.75 by debit card versus \u20ac1.50 in cash, and 60% of debit card donations are contactless.\" class=\"wp-image-1948\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.betaalvereniging.nl\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/10\/Factsheet-elektronisch-collecteren-728x1024-1.jpg 728w, https:\/\/www.betaalvereniging.nl\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/10\/Factsheet-elektronisch-collecteren-728x1024-1-213x300.jpg 213w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 728px) 100vw, 728px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donors give an average of \u20ac3.75 through electronic collection boxes, compared with \u20ac1.50 in cash, according to a trial involving 500 collection boxes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1843,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"editor_notices":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"btv_subject_tax":[16,18],"class_list":["post-1947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","btv_subject_tax-card-payments","btv_subject_tax-recieving-payments"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin  - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pinnen bij collectes verhoogt gemiddelde donatie - Dutch Payments Association<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Pinnen bij collectes blijkt effectiever dan contant geld. 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