Trying to start a website that is Acorns for political donations, but running into a big obstacle.
Hi everyone. Im trying to build an MVP for an idea I have. Acorns for political campaigns, where you donate your rounded up change to politicians or political campaigns. The MVP I have is just for giving money to Joe Biden, but I'm in a snag. I'm using Plaid the register peoples banks accounts securely and get their recent transactions and I'm using Stripe to take the rounded up change out of their account. But I don't know how to give it to Joe Biden
For an MVP, you could probably just mail a check once a month to each campaign.
Longer term, you could see if a platform like ActBlue has an API.
If you're batching the transactions, which makes sense to me, you might want to look into how you can set up an escrow account to hold it while it waiting to be batched, since that money isn't really "yours". I have no idea how that works, and if I was in your shoes I'd talk to a lawyer.