(Don’t forget, these are the highest profits in the industry! Check out our low-price guarantee!)
Profit on our $10 Cards
250 Cards – $1,630 Profit
500 Cards – $4,250 Profit
700 Cards – $6,300 Profit
1000 Cards – $11,800 Profit*
2000 Cards – $24,100 Profit*
3000 Cards – $36,900 Profit*
Profit on our $15 Cards
250 Cards – $3,010 Profit
500 Cards – $7,125 Profit
700 Cards – $10,325 Profit
1000 Cards – $18,700 Profit*
2000 Cards – $37,900 Profit*
3000 Cards – $57,600 Profit*
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Profit on our $20 Cards
250 Cards – $4,510 Profit
500 Cards – $10,000 Profit
700 Cards – $14,350 Profit
1000 Cards – $25,600 Profit*
2000 Cards – $51,700 Profit*
3000 Cards – $78,300 Profit*
* Includes 200 bonus cards per 1000 cards ordered. Profits require all cards received to be sold.
What is a Discount Card Fundraiser?
Our fundraiser discount card is a hard plastic PVC card (like a credit card) created specifically for your group. We will create a custom design for the front of your card, using your organization’s name, colors, logos, and/or background images. The back of your fundraising card will include discounts from 18 merchants in your local area.
Merchant offers can consist of both local mom-and-pop establishments and also nearby locations of national chains. We include the merchant’s logo/name, the discounts they are providing, and the location(s) where the offer can be redeemed. Offers can be in several different forms, like 10% 15% or 20% off, a dollar amount off, like $5 off a purchase of $30 or more, or $7 off an oil change. Additionally, there may be BOGO (Buy One Get One) offers like BOGO chicken sandwich or WPO (With Purchase Of) offers like free breadsticks WPO a pizza or free buffet WPO a buffet and two drinks.
Discount cards are the highest profit fundraiser in the industry and are by far the best type of fundraiser for groups of kids, like schools, Little League sports, youth groups, and other types of Non-profit organizations. Essentially, the cards are sold to the non-profit organization (and most times payment is not due until two weeks after the cards are received), who then distribute the cards to the children, who in turn sell them to family, neighbors, and the parents’ co-workers. You may even approach your local grocery store and see if they will allow your organization to sell your cards in front of their store. The children then turn in the funds, which the group then pays us, and then uses the remainder of the funds to support the group’s activities.
How to order your cards
Click the button below and fill out the online form.
Print out your agreement, then sign and return it.
(Optional) Email us your wishlist of merchants
Proofread your fundraising cards before they go to print.
What a few of our customers have to say about our work.
We used your company last year when I was PTO president of West Lane Elementary. This year, my son is in a different school, and as a member of their PTO I shared our success and experience with your company. They were very excited about the idea and ready to jump into this fundraiser right away! I’m looking forward to working with you again! We were able to raise over $10,000 last year, and with more students this year, we are hoping to nearly double that. Brigitte LoosBrigitte Loos – Fundraising Chairperson Jackson Middle School PTO Thank you so much for the donation of the extra cards !! We have received them and they look great !! We will definitely be using your company again next year. Thank you for making this such an easy process for us. Sarah VinardiRiver Valley Youth Baseball League Thank you for accommodating our August 1st deadline. We really appreciate how helpful and service-oriented you have been throughout this whole process. Your company has been a delight to work with, and I just wanted to say thank you for answering all of our many questions quickly and accurately. The service we have received has been wonderful! Jessica BlueArizona College Prep This is our second year using EFC for our discount card fundraiser. Our first year was such a success, and everyone saved so much money with the cards that EFC created, that doing the fundraiser a second year was a “no-brainer”. In fact, I have had MANY people ask me if we would please do the fundraiser again this year … I would highly recommend using Mark at Easy Fundraising Cards for your discount card fundraiser.” D. FarberChrista McAuliffe Elementary PTA President You’re fantastic to work with. Thank you for your hard work to help out our organization. You made this experience very pleasurable for us here at Mardela Middle & Senior High. John David MayburyDirector of Choirs Thank you so much. I am very pleased with your level of service and will highly recommend your organization! Tammy GullLake Little League
We know you’ve tried the chocolate bars, the printed cups, the popcorn, the car wash, and even the classic bake sale to help raise money for your school or organization. How many of those chocolate bars were you stuck with once the fundraising period was over? How many did you eat? Did it rain the day of the car wash? We have a much easier solution that pleases everyone and is a lot easier.
A discount card fundraiser is the ideal way to meet your fundraising goals without tedious planning. Your supporters won’t be the only ones enjoying your card fundraiser; the local businesses in your town will also see new customers and increased business. The best part, of course, is that we do most of the work for you, leaving you more time to focus on running your organization.
Custom Designs
With our customized fundraising discount cards, your supporters will be lining up to get them. We can print the cards with your organization’s logo, colors, or nearly any design of your choice. Most groups leave the design up to us, and we create something unique every time. You will have the opportunity to proofread the card designs before we print them. Each time a donor uses the card, they’ll be reminded how they helped your cause. That doesn’t happen once donors eat their specially wrapped candy or get their car washed. As your community experiences using our fundraising cards, they’ll look for them at each of your future fundraising events.
Local Business Participation
We know how overwhelming and time-consuming it can be to find local businesses to support your cause. We will do it for you. We take the central address you provide and recruit up to 18 businesses in your area to participate. You can even give us a wishlist, if there are certain merchants you want to try and include, and we’ll do our best to get them on board. Many small businesses are happy to have the advertisement and look forward to serving new customers. The business owners can also feel good about supporting a worthy cause in their community. Choose our discount fundraising cards and you’ll have more time to work on your cause without worrying about fundraising details. If you’d rather choose the merchants yourself, we do have a DIY option, although our offer to secure them is standard when you place an order. You can find more details about this in our FAQ.
Pricing and Financing
We require a minimum order of 250 cards, and we have standard pricing for each order (plus we will include up to 15% extra cards for free). We’re so confident in our card fundraisers that we’ll donate an extra 200 cards if you order 1,000 or more, and we have a low price guarantee. The amount your group chooses to charge for each card will be printed on the front and is at your discretion, but that won’t change our standard agreement price. If you need additional fundraising cards, we can print them in batches of 100 cards. We do have financing available for registered nonprofits, and no money is required upfront with the initial order. Payment will be deferred until two weeks after the cards are delivered.
Premium Customer Service
We pride ourselves on providing excellent customer service, so we’re here to answer any questions or talk through any concerns you might have.
We’re committed to making sure your fundraiser is a huge success. We know fundraising cards work because of the repeat business and testimonials we’ve gotten from groups like yours. If you have an upcoming event, call us today and we’ll start the process. Make the smart choice when it comes to your fundraising plans and order your fundraising discount cards today.
Your donors will be able to choose exactly how they want to use their cards, and you’re giving them several different local merchants to choose from. Donors can use these cards for an entire year, so the discounts pay for them several times over. Please give us a call or fill out our form below to get more information. We look forward to helping you make your discount card fundraiser a resounding success!
Frequently Asked Questions
If you have any questions, or concerns, or need special assistance with fundraising card,s please do not hesitate to contact us.
We have two options available. Easy Fundraising Cards will be responsible for securing the merchants and offers for your full service card(this is standard). We do offer a DIY option if you would prefer to get the merchants yourself.
Yes, you are welcome to provide us with a wishlist. Though we cannot guarantee the participation of any particular merchant, we will call on the wishlist merchants first. By calling them first it will increase the chances of them being on the card.
When contacting merchants, we do so specifically for inclusion on your card only. To do so we take the central Street address that you will provide to us on the agreement and create a list of up to 200 merchants. We then place an asterisk next to wishlist merchants (merchants you would like to see on the card) and they are moved to the top of the list. The remaining merchants are then placed in order of importance and difficulty to gain and then each category is sorted by distance, so the closer merchants get called first. We starts calling from the top of the list down, noting decision makers and when to call them back. It is important to note that we do NOT call the wishlist merchants and then stop calling until they get back with us as your card would never get finished if we did. We continue to call on merchant until we have a good mix of merchants for your cards.
We will be targeting mostly restaurants. We will be looking for a few fast food locations, sub shops, pizza shops and sit down restaurants (usually a mix of local and national chains), additionally we like to see at least one ice cream/yogurt store, a bakery and coffee shop. We will also include other types of merchants for entertainment like bowling, golf, or go carts and an automotive location like a car wash or oil change place.
There is no specific radius where we contact merchants. About 10 to 15 % of the merchants we contact will give us an offer for your card, so we create a list of about 120 to 200 merchants in order to get up to 18 offers for your fundraising card. If you live in a town that has only 30 merchants and every other town is 15 miles away then the radius for your card would be over 15 miles, if you live in the suburb of a large city your merchants may be mostly within a couple miles. When we are calling on merchants for your cards we will be calling on the closest merchants first.
Perhaps the best way to see the type of merchants on a card that you can expect, would be by browsing our sample cards, located at: Samples, 9 Samples, and more samples If you like what you see there you should be pleased with your cards.
Though we may have previously gained merchants in your area, there is no guarantee that any particular merchant will want to be on your card. Each merchant has only the obligation to honor that particular card for 1 year. So though it is likely that some of those merchants will want to be on your card, not all of them will. For this reason we do not release any lists of merchants as that list may induce you to contract with us, then merchants from that list may not be on your card. We will be gaining merchants specifically for your cards. Here is what we do: We take the central Street address that you provide to us on the agreement and create a list of up to 200 merchants, to that list we place an asterisk next to wishlist merchants (merchants you would like to see on the card) and they are moved to the top of the list. The remaining merchants are then placed in order of importance and difficulty to gain and then each category is sorted by distance, so the closer merchants get called first. We starts calling from the top of the list down, noting decision makers and when to call them back. It is important to note that we do NOT call the wishlist merchants and then stop calling until they get back with us (your card would never get finished if we did). 10 to 20% of merchants we contact will be on the card.
Fundraising cards are of the greatest value to the end consumer when the merchants are as close as possible to a single location, when there is more than one location for gaining merchants the cards have less value for every cards purchaser. The right way to do this would be to create two separate cards with two separate agreements. Most that ask about doing this are wanting to take advantage of our generous quantity price breaks, and we understand. However; As we do already have a low price guarantee and our costs to gain merchants and produce the cards do not change, so these orders would not qualify for discounted pricing based on the total quantity of both orders. (We are still doing twice the work of a single card)
Yes, you will be given the opportunity to PROOF read your card, this gives you the chance to check spelling, grammar, and to make sure addresses and restaurant names are correct. Additionally at this time you can ask that a particular merchant or two are removed (not replaced) if they are not in line with your organizations values. Changes can be made to the front of the card at time of proof.
We are not able to provide a sample card or sales flier prior to you placing your order. We will be contacting the merchants specifically for your card once your contract is in place. if this is the first time you are using fundraising cards as a fundraiser you can avoid ordering too many cards by placing an order for what you feel is a safe number of card and then if you sell out you can quickly order additional cards at at the same price as your initial order.
Yes, if you have a signed agreement with them we will accept that. If you do not, then we will contact them to confirm the offer they have given, and then we send them a copy of your card by email along with the other merchants so they will have a couple of days to get back to us with any corrections.
Fundraising Discount Cards will not be the best fundraiser for this application. Sometimes referred to as Local Discount Cards, they work best in close local areas. The closer the merchants are to a central location the greater the value of the card in that area. Spreading the merchants out over a larger area reduces the value of each card for each consumer.
We have chosen to use the 18 merchant format as we believe include the merchant logo increases sales. Most donations are made when a young person asks an adult to make a donation, at this point the adult will turn the card over and if they see a couple merchants where they feel they can save more than the donation amount, will then make the donation. Seeing the logo will help them make the decision to make a donation.
Unfortunately NO. A large part of what we get paid to do is getting the merchants for your cards. It is very labor intensive and costly. As we get the merchants specifically for each card we create, there is no way to know which actual merchants and location will be on the cards until after we have a signed contract. We do understand the value of the merchants on the cards and like you, want them to be as good as possible. The better the card is for you, the better it is for us as we have our name on the card also. We strive to make sure every organization is pleased with the merchants on their cards.
The cards are generally good at only single locations… for example, if we call McDonald’s and get a “yes”, we then ask “is this good only at [street address]? or can you authorize the offer for other locations as well?” If they own other locations they may decide to include those locations as well. We do not call every McDonald’s in the area to get a yes from all of them.
We have decided not to go after national contracts. Companies that state they already have merchant contracted through national agreements are required to add “at participating locations”. Since most franchises are independently owned, many times the card is not accepted at your local store. Not only will this greatly upset your customers it will also greatly diminish the value of the card and can hurt sales. Instead we contact each merchant specifically for your organization, that way your customers cards will be accepted!
On the agreement you will see a request for a central street address. This will be used to create a list of merchants including their distance in relation to your desired location, we use that information to gain the merchants for your cards.
We provide a mix of merchants that is mostly made up of food offers but also may include an automotive offer like a car wash or oil change, an amusement offer like bowling or miniature golf and occasionally a sporting good store. Areas with smaller populations and fewer merchants may also have additional non-food locations like hair cuts, florists, and dry cleaners.
In most cases payment is due two weeks after the cards are received. The most important thing we are looking for in an organization is longevity. The only way to find out for sure is by completing an agreement on our website (if you do not qualify for financing then you are not required to continue, though most do)
Yes, the cards can be priced at nearly any price you would like. We have had a football booster club use the discount cards also as a season pass for home games and had the sale price listed accordingly.
Easy Fundraising Cards are created specifically for your organization. As such the cards are not on consignment and are not set up for profit sharing. The pricing on our site is the price per card that must be paid to Easy Fundraising Cards regardless of card sales. Once Easy Fundraising Cards has been paid in full you then keep 100% from the sales of cards after that point. Our pricing does show potential profit percentages that assume that all cards purchased are sold which show a potential profit of over 100%. Detailed information can be located on our fundraising discount card pricing page.
Unlike other fundraising products, Fundraising Discount Cards are not sold on a consignment basis – your organization will be entering into an agreement to purchase a set amount of cards, since they are made specifically for you there is no value to anyone else and cannot be returned, this is part of the trade off for such high profits.
Our minimum order size for our full service custom fundraising cards is 250. IF you need less than 250 you may want to consider our DIY Fundraising card option, which has a 100 card minimum order size.
Yes, you can re-order cards in blocks of 100 cards at the same rate per card as your initial order. Once you reach the next price break you re-orders will be at the accumulated rate. So if you place an order for 500 cards at $3.00 each for a total of $1500.00 and then order 200 more cards, your accumulated number of cards ordered would put you at the 700 cards price break and your cost would drop to $2.50 per card. so your re-order of 200 cards would be billed at $2.50 per card for a total of $500.00. Once your initial order has been paid in full you can resubmit your initial contract, cross out any changes you are making to the contract and have them initialed by the person who initially signed the original contract. Your additional cards will arrive in about 7 to 10 business days.
Most organizations that have been a registered non-profit organization for over 2 years will qualify for financing, though that is not the only required qualification. If your organization qualifies for financing then payment will be due two weeks after you receive your cards.
Each type of organization has different requirements and even within each group type there are different requirements. Essentially we are looking for long term stability in the organization, some groups do not even need to have 501c3 status if we are able to independently discover information that shows us that the organization is credit worthy. If you are unsure if your group will qualify, the best route is to go ahead and complete the agreement located at https://easyfundraisingcards.com/order-fundraising-discount-cards and we will let you know.
Yes, a card can have as few merchants as you would like, however the quality of the offers needs to be substantially greater than the cost of the card (Pizza cards sell for $10 and have only one merchant. keep in mind, though your immediate area may have limited merchants, your retail card purchasers are used to traveling to do shopping and do business, having merchant from those areas would add value to the card. IF you plan on having 12 merchants or less you should strongly consider our DIY Fundraising card option.
Yes, once you have completed the DIY Agreement and it has been accepted we will be sending you a personalized merchant agreement specifically for your organization. Full details can be located on our DIY fundraising discount card page, below the pricing information
There are no restrictions or differences in our cards created for Hawaiian organization. Our pricing is all inclusive and includes UPS “ground” shipping, so there is no additional cost.
Our cards are of the highest possible quality, they are the same size (3 3/8? x 2 1/8?), shape (rounded corners), and consistency (30 Mil and glossy) as a standard credit card. We print your cards in full image quality color front and back and can use your images and logo or design one for you, all while Offering a low price guarantee
Having us create a unique design for your card front is very simple and does not require any design knowledge. To have an image or photo incorporated into the design of your card front, simply send it to us by email in nearly any format, that is it! If however you would like to be more involved in the design of your card front, please send images in print shop (.psd) format with layers separated. We will have to work with required information and large edge bleeds so we will likely need to make adjustments to your files. The most important things to keep in mind if you are designing your own front image is that less is more…. the fewer words and information on the card front the better and a picture is worth a thousand words.
Your organization does not necessarily need to be registered as a 501c3 organization. We can create a fundraising card for nearly any organization. Having an Employer Identification Number number can help the organization to qualify for financing.
Yes a for-profit business can order fundraising cards, though in most cases financing will not be available and you will want to taken into consideration if the merchants will be open to providing offers to your business? For this reason a for-profit business may want to consider our DIY Fundraising Card option.
Obviously there are many variable that play into the number of cards sold be person. Probably the biggest of which is how motivated the kids are, the greater the motivation the greater the results. As a rule of thumb, sporting groups sell more per participant than any other groups, with some football teams selling as many as 10 cards each (both positive and negative motivation) a very safe and reasonable number for sports groups is 3 to 4 cards per family. Schools typically sell a little less between 1 and 4 cards per student, with a fairly safe number is around 1.5 to 2 cards per student. Keep the pricing structure in mind. Additionally if you need more cards, reorders can be received in 7 to 10 business days and are priced at the rate of your initial order.
Our fundraising cards are good for a little over one year, expiring the first of the 13th month after you receive the cards. For example if you receive your cards for sale on 08/15/13 then they would expire on 09/01/14.
No, unsold cards may not be returned, each card is made specifically for your organization and have no value to anyone else. Companies that do allow you to return cards charge nearly twice as much for their cards and then allow you to only a small portion of unsold cards of the cards… in the long run you will end up having to sell nearly twice as many cards to raise the same funds.
It depends on the time of year, much of the year it takes about 3 weeks from the contract date until you receive the cards. Times can be longer at the beginning of the school year. We may be able to get a sale flier to you a little sooner if needed.
Most non-profit organization do not have to pay for cards in advance. For those that qualify for financing, payment is due within 14 days of receiving the cards, this way you may be able to pay from profits.
To use your new fundraising discount card, you will present your card at the merchants located on the back of the card when placing your order. They will then give you the discount that is located on the card. The cards do have conditions to them which are located at the bottom of the back of the card, so you will want to make sure you are meeting those conditions. When you do use the card thank the merchant for supporting your community and the organization listed on the front of the card.
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