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How StriderPay Works
StriderPay ensures you get full control over your event income—fast, simple, and reliably.
You Set Your Entry Price. We Handle the Rest.
StriderPay gives you complete control over your earnings—quickly, simply, and securely.
We securely process each transaction and deposit the funds in the designated StriderPay account—no delays, no stress.
Payments arrive instantly, so you never wait, chase down riders, or manage post-event invoices.
Know Exactly What You’re Making 📈
You always know exactly what you’ll take home. STRIDER conveniently adds a small amount to each transaction to address your estimated processing and handling.
Best Rates, Applied Automatically
If your organization qualifies for nonprofit pricing or negotiated PayPal rates, your actual payment processor costs may be lower than average-and you keep the difference.
If you ever need to confirm your rate, you can check it in your PayPal account .
How Do Riders Pay? 💳
Riders can check out on STRIDER using their preferred payment method of Venmo, credit/debit card, or PayPal.
Secure & Trusted By Industry Leaders 🛡️
Security is built in at every step. STRIDER is the leading digital entry platform in the equestrian industry and the only PayPal Global Partner. Every payment benefits from PayPal’s robust security infrastructure, keeping both your income and your riders’ financial information fully protected.
Industry Leaders Use StriderPay
Common FAQs
There’s no monthly fee to use StriderPay, and no surprise post-show invoices.
We add a modest, estimated amount to each rider’s checkout to proactively cover your costs in secure payment processing, data protection, and unlimited cloud storage—so you’re never stuck paying out of pocket.
This model allows you to offer riders a secure, affordable checkout experience while keeping your event operations organized, predictable, and sustainable.
Full Pricing Transparency
Exact Fees. After every completed transaction, you can review a detailed breakdown in your PayPal account showing how the funds were applied, including the payment processor charges and any applicable STRIDER handling fee.
No Accounting Stress. Each paid selection shows as a line item inside your transaction details.
Details At A Glance.
Did you call the class the rider paid for “The Pink Pokka-Dotted Pony Derby“? Well, that’s what you’ll see.
We proactively assume that you’ll be charged the standard industry processing rate by PayPal.
However, if you’ve negotiated a lower rate, the difference is yours to keep!
You can find your specific PayPal processing rates inside your account [here].
Payment processing costs are made up of two parts:
- A fixed fee charged for each transaction.
- A percentage of the payment amount.
Because every transaction includes fixed fees, your average transaction size has a significant impact on the effective percentage you end with.
For example, imagine the fixed fee is $1.
A single $200 clinic entry incurs that $1 fee once. The fixed fee represents just 0.5% of the transaction.
Now collect that same $200 as twenty $10 payments.
The fixed fee is charged twenty times.
Instead of paying $1 in fixed fees, you’re paying $20 to collect the same $200, before the percentage-based fees are even added! It adds 10%.
That’s why organizations that collect many small payments, such as $25 lesson fees or $50 memberships, will naturally have a higher effective processing percentage than organizations collecting fewer, larger payments, such as $200 clinic entries or $500 show registrations.
If you choose “Organizer Pays”, remember that the fixed fee component of each transaction will add up quickly to skew your percentages. Many clubs offset these costs by simply increasing entry fees by $5-$10.
This is simply how electronic payment processing works.
Our pricing is designed to keep things affordable and transparent for all.
For an average $200 show entry, “Rider Pays” an estimated processing and handling sum just under 6%.
If you’ve negotiated better rates that the industry standard, the difference is yours to keep!
Note: All secure processors—Venmo, Stripe, PayPal, and major credit/debit cards—use the same structure: a small percentage plus a fixed per-transaction fee.
When an activity is priced very low, that fixed portion becomes a larger percentage share of the total. The fee isn’t increasing—it’s simply more noticeable on small-dollar transactions.
That’s the reality of digital transactions.
To see exactly how the system works, simply start entering any activity on STRIDER. You’ll experience the same clear, secure and transparent checkout that riders see.
You do. We don’t hold your funds. Payment is deposited directly into your account in real-time as the rider completes payment on STRIDER.
Here’s “How To Issue Refunds“.
How Will Our Treasurer Know the Payment Is for Strider Activity?
STRIDER’s integration with PayPal makes accounting easy for every transaction, no matter what payment method the rider chooses at checkout (Venmo, credit/debit card, or PayPal).
At any time, you can review each payment’s details directly in your PayPal account. Simply click on a transaction to view all related information, including the exact Strider event or activity name. This ensures your treasurer/accountant can easily identify the source and purpose of each payment.
Example: When you click on a transaction, you’ll see the Strider activity name clearly listed next to the payment details—whether it’s for a clinic, show, or event. No more wondering, “What does this emoji for a Venmo payment mean?” or “Why did Laura send me $50?”
Can we set up a PayPal account just for STRIDER?
Yes! PayPal allows you to have multiple accounts under the same EIN (Employer Identification Number). PayPal will automatically consolidate all accounting and IRS forms under the same EIN number, simplifying your tax and financial reporting.
This means you can create a separate PayPal business account specifically for your StriderPay transactions without affecting your other PayPal accounts.
Here’s a great Account Setup Checklist
TIP: If you’re part of a larger organization or non-profit, be sure to use the parent organization’s legal name, not your branch, local “Doing Business As” name or chapter’s name, when setting up the PayPal account. The EIN must match the organization’s legal name to make StriderPay approval a smooth process.
STRIDER does not collect or remit taxes for members. You’ll need to include any applicable taxes in your entry fees, such as state sales or e-marketplace taxes.
PayPal will issue you tax forms for all accounts that receive over $20,000 in a calendar year.
In order to comply with financial security and IRS reporting requirements, we require each organizer to be carefully vetted, and banking information confirmed in PayPal before you can use our StriderPay service.
To learn more, please review our Payment Processing Agreement.
Yes, if you want to. It’s available on our paid StriderGold level.
But you’ll probably get more entries with online payment.
(We’ve stopped using VHS tapes, too!)
Note: To ensure fairness, we encourage organizers to set a minimum $25 processing fee for the extra labor time involved in processing checks. Learn more here