Donations and Gift Aid

Collect donations online and keep Gift Aid evidence ready for finance review

Fundraising should be simple for donors and auditable for trustees. MAS is building donation campaigns, recurring giving, tenant-branded donor receipts and Gift Aid review into the tenant workspace and public mosque website.

One-off

Stripe payment intents

Monthly

donation checkout

Gift Aid

CSV and XML drafts

Outcomes

What this unlocks

Create campaigns with suggested amounts and restricted-fund labels.

Accept rate-limited one-off or monthly donations from tenant-site donation blocks.

Send donor receipts through verified tenant sender domains where available, with MAS fallback sending otherwise.

Review recorded monthly donor subscriptions, capture cancellation-request audit notes and verify provider metadata.

Review eligible Gift Aid donations, retain or redact due export evidence, export CSV evidence, build draft HMRC XML and record manual/test response outcomes.

Donation campaigns for mosque finance teams

Campaign setup is intentionally gated to finance-capable roles, with amount normalisation and tenant-scoped storage.

  • Suggested amounts, target amount and restricted-fund labels are stored with each campaign.
  • Monthly giving can be enabled per campaign.
  • Campaigns can be rendered on tenant-site donation blocks with donor-scoped public checkout throttling.
  • Succeeded one-off donations and recorded monthly donation invoices can send idempotent donor receipts from the verified mosque sender domain or MAS fallback sender.

Monthly donor review before live cancellation

Recurring Stripe invoice rows are grouped into monthly donor subscription summaries in the tenant workspace so finance users can review history, record cancellation requests and verify provider metadata.

  • Rows are scoped by tenant and Stripe subscription id.
  • The workspace shows donor, campaign, amount, invoice count, last gift and total recorded amount.
  • Stripe app, purpose and tenant metadata must match before any provider side effect can be considered.
  • Cancellation notes and provider verification results are stored as MAS audit state; production-enabled live cancellation remains a controlled follow-up.

Gift Aid evidence before direct HMRC submission

The current implementation focuses on trustworthy evidence collection, CSV export, draft HMRC XML, response-readiness records and correction package audit visibility before adding direct XML/API filing.

  • Gift Aid declarations are stored with donor details and declaration text version.
  • Claim previews exclude incomplete, out-of-period or already-claimed donations.
  • Draft claim batches record the MAS Gift Aid retention policy version and evidence review date.
  • The workspace lists due or legacy claim batches for manual finance review and explicit retain/redact export actions.
  • Draft claim batches can be exported as CSV evidence, downloaded as draft HMRC XML, annotated with manual/test HMRC response outcomes, and marked with correction package rebuild audit details.

Related platform capabilities

How it connects to the wider MAS platform

Tenant website CMS

Foundation live

Payload CMS foundations let mosque teams publish tenant-scoped pages, navigation, mosque service blocks, CTA sections and guided starter layouts with preview, publish confirmation, audit, field/block version comparison and guarded restore support.

Custom domains

Foundation live

Connect MAS-managed subdomains or custom domains, view DNS instructions, refresh provider status and track registration jobs.

Donation campaigns

Foundation live

Finance-capable users can create campaigns with suggested amounts, restricted-fund labels, targets and monthly-giving settings.

One-off and monthly giving

Foundation live

Tenant-site donation blocks support one-off Stripe Elements checkout, monthly Stripe Checkout subscriptions, and workspace review of recurring invoice history.

Questions trustees ask

FAQs

Does MAS support monthly donations?

The foundation creates Stripe Checkout Sessions in subscription mode for campaigns that allow monthly giving, stores paid recurring invoices as tenant donations, and lets finance users record MAS-side cancellation requests plus provider metadata checks. Production-enabling live Stripe cancellation and donor self-service are still pending.

Does MAS submit Gift Aid directly to HMRC?

Not yet. Claim review, CSV export, draft HMRC XML generation, manual/test response recording and correction package visibility are live foundations; direct HMRC XML/API filing is a pending follow-up.