RaiseRight.com FAQ
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Yes. However, they must charge a 2.6% fee to cover the cost of processing the transaction. While this convenience may be useful to some, everyone should keep in mind that purchasing any gift cards that rebate less than 2.6% back to the Gene Grawe Fund will be a net loss for the student.
PrestoPay is the instant payment processor used by RaiseRight​.​com. When you setup your account at RaiseRight​.​com, you will link a checking or savings account to PrestoPay. When you purchase gift cards on RaiseRight​.​com and use PrestoPay to pay for them, a debit is made to your bank account and your gift cards are immediately available to you.
In today’s world, many families have multiple bank accounts. Currently, RaiseRight​.​com only allows one bank funding source for each customer account. So any bank account that you want to use for online scrip purchases will have its own RaiseRight.com account and a unique email address. Truth is, having two different RaiseRight​.​com accounts works a lot better for our family than trying to transfer money between two different banks. That can still take 5-6 days.
We now have a complete Step-By-Step tutorial to assist you in enrolling at RaiseRight​.​com. Click here to read the article.
For every cart checkout RaiseRight​.​com only charges $0.29 cents. You could be buying a $10 gift card from just one merchant or a $1,000 in gift cards from 10 different merchants and you still only pay $0.29 cents.
We have a complete Step-By-Step tutorial to assist you in enrolling at RaiseRight​.​com. Click here to read the article on our website.
The RaiseRight mobile device app can be downloaded and installed from the appropriate app store for your device: the Apple Store for iPhones and iPads or the Google Play Store for Android smartphones and tablets. Click here to be taken to the RaiseRight website where you can learn about the RaiseRight app and be texted the download link for your mobile device. RaiseRight, it’s the easiest way to buy scrip for over 750 merchants at RaiseRight​.​com. Do it from home or while standing in the checkout line of a participating merchant.
Scrip is any substitute for legal tender. Scrips have been used throughout history for payment of employees and for use in local commerce at times when regular currency was unavailable. For example, in remote coal towns, military bases, ships on long voyages, or occupied countries in wartime. Many forms of scrip have been quite common, such as company scrip, land scrip, vouchers, subway tokens, arcade tokens and tickets, and even those “Green” Stamps from the 1950s and ’60s. The most common form of scrip today is prepaid debit and gift cards like those sold by RaiseRight​.​com and the Gene Grawe ... Read more
The website RaiseRight.com and the RaiseRight mobile device app belong to the Great Lakes Scrip Center (GLSC) in Kentwood, Michigan. They are the online portals through which participants in the Gene Grawe Fund can make gift card purchases for 700+ national and online merchants. The GLSC was created in 1994 as a way to shift school fundraising from an after-school student responsibility to a parental responsibility. It’s been an amazing success in its nearly 30 years. They’ve help over 50,000 non-profits raise over $900 million just by encouraging their members to change their shopping and bill payment habits.
