Donation processing fee for PayPal and SquareSpace?

Hello! Hoping this is a quick and easy question. I have a non-profit client that recently launched on SS. They use Paypal to collect donations, which already charges them a 3% fee to process transactions. We've noticed that SquareSpace charges an additional 3% fee on top of the PayPal fee. Is there any way to avoid this with Squarespace since they are a registered non-profit entity? Unfortunately, it makes a really big impact to part ways with 6% of every donation they receive and I would like to provide them with a better solution since they are paying Squarespace for all the business features. 

Thank you and please let me know!

On 3/5/2023 at 6:58 AM, paul2009 said:

It's easy to add a PayPal donate button to a Squarespace website. A PayPal account holder can create a button for a campaign by visiting https://www.paypal.com/donate/buttons and then logging on to their PayPal account. Using this method, they can also show a checkbox that offers donors the option to increase their donation to help offset the cost of fees.

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So I currently have the Commerce Basic plan for a non-profit I work with. That means there are 0% transaction fees.... but the donate button on the website is a link to our paypal donation site. 

If im understanding you correctly I don't need to have the commerce plan because im not using squarespace to handle the donation transaction, correct?

This would save us money every year. I guess I was confused when I first created the website and thought they would still charge me even though I was using paypal .

The website is www.lvcap.org if you want to check out my donation link.

Thanks in advance!