An easier way to build and online store to support your cause

Create an account on PTOffice and begin working through the step-by-step setup process. You'll list your products and sale items, uploading images and adding titles and descriptions.

Once your page is created and your products listed, you'll launch the campaign.

From there, you'll use PTOffice's promotional tools - like direct link sharing, email, social sharing and in-app messaging - to get the word out about your sale.

Buyers will visit your page, add items to their cart and complete a basic checkout process.

Your store tracks all data and compiles sales reports for you in your dashboard for easy management.

Yes! Define your product variations and add them during setup. Each item added allows you to define the available options - so you can add variations like size and color.

Buyers will choose which options they want during checkout.

Example: A large, green t-shirt.

PTOffice does not offer shipping services to our users. There are many third parties that provide this type of service, however.

Track an item's fulfillment status and report to access buyer's shipping details.

To continue providing an exceptional PTO/PTA management platform, PTOffice online purchases are powered by fees collected through each credit card purchase. Every card run on PTOffice is subject to a Stripe fee (credit card processing fee) while there is a potentially optional PTOffice fee as well.

1. Credit card processing fee

All credit card processing is performed by Stripe, not PTOffice, and is separate from the PTOffice online sales fee. Like every payment processor, Stripe charges its own fee for processing payments (typically 2.2% + .30 for qualified non-profits).

2. PTOffice fee

PTOffice offers two types of fee options - a Free Tip Jar or a Percentage fee.

The following describes the differences between our Free Tip Jar option and the Percentage Processing Fee option. These options are only applied to items purchased within a Store via credit card and DO NOT apply to purchases made with cash or check. Although a majority of our customers use the Free Tip Jar option, the description of each below can help you decide for yourself.

FREE TIP JAR (most popular): With this option, the purchaser will be presented with an optional "Tip Jar" at checkout. This tip is covered by the customer and does not come out of your profit. The tip amount is a transaction between the customer and PTOffice and is electronically directed to PTOffice. Don't worry, if no one tips, PTOffice simply doesn't receive any tips. You will not be responsible for "making up the difference" or anything like that. 🙂

These tips are provided by the customer and DO NOT affect your profit at all (see below).

PERCENTAGE FEE: With this option, the Tip Jar will be removed and a required 4.9% percentage processing fee will be applied at checkout. You have the option of adding this fee to your customer's order (customer covers the cost) or having the fee removed from the amount received from the purchase (organization covers the cost). This portion of the charge is electronically directed to PTOffice.

NOTE: Stripe (the credit card processor) will deduct 2.2% + 30c for each credit card transaction (qualified non-profits)

Example using Free Tip Jar:

Customer purchases $100 in goods and tips $2.

Stripe removes 2.2% + .30 from $100 and sends remainder to your organization = $97.50

Stripe removes 2.2% from tip and sends remainder to PTOffice = $1.96