Cash Donation Payments

Shopify Apps

Topic summary

Request for guidance on enabling split payouts for an online donation platform (GoFundMe-style) with a 1% service fee.

  • Goal: Have each donation automatically split so most funds go directly to the beneficiary’s account, while 1% routes to the organizer’s account.
  • Considered approach: Use Shopify Payments (noted by the poster as zero fee) and then manually transfer funds from a main account, keeping the 1% fee; the poster is unsure if this is feasible or practical.
  • Ask: Recommendations or methods—potentially via apps or configuration—to implement split payments/payouts (i.e., dividing a single transaction to multiple recipients) within Shopify.

No solutions, decisions, or next steps have been provided yet. The thread remains open and unresolved.

Summarized with AI on December 12. AI used: gpt-5.
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Hi all,

I am setting up an online cash donation site - Somewhat similar to GoFundMe & the likes, where there is a small fee for the service.
I am struggling to find a way to have the cash donations split to go straight to the donation receivers account, and the small 1% fee into my own account.
I was thinking of using Shopfiy payments as its zero fee and then manually sending the money from one main account & keeping the 1% fee that’s charged, but I’m not sure this is feasible.
Any suggestions on how to go about this would be much appreciated.

Thank you in advance !