When you use Getting There to shop online Getting There earns an advertising referral fee. Getting There shares the referral fee with you in the form of cashback which is given to the cause you support or to you. 

To earn cashback and raise funds for your cause you must be logged into Getting There.  This is the only way we can track your sales and make sure the cashback you earn is allocated to your account.

By including a search engine on the site it makes easier for Getting There users to set the Getting There home page as their homepage.  This makes it easier for you to raise funds for your favourite cause or yourself by shopping online with your favourite stores. 

 

No, the cost is the same as if you were to go straight to the retailer's web-site or if you went to any of their stores.  The only difference is if you go to the retailer through Getting There you'll receive cashback which will raise funds for the cause you support or for you.

In some cases using Getting There for on-line shopping is cheaper than going straight to the retailers as Getting There makes a point of highlighting special promotions, discount codes and vouchers in the Offers section.

Retailers often find it more cost effective to build sales by paying referral fees to other websites who bring them extra coverage and more new customers.  It reduces the retailers advertising costs and many of the retailers who are on the Getting There site appreciate that good causes are benefitting from the referral fees.

Yes.  Once you start shopping through Getting There your sales can be tracked and the cashback you earn will either be donated to the cause you support. or sent to you.

You wouldn't earn any cashback if you had used Getting There to browse through the Getting Mall and had used a bookmarked a page to shop with later.

The easiest way of using Getting There for online shopping is to set Getting There as the homepage on your PC.

To do this in Internet Explorer, go to "Tools" on your browser's tool bar, then go to "Internet Options" and "General".

Enter http://www.gettingthereuk.co.uk into the space for your homepage, or click the "Use current" button if you are already on the page you want to use.

In Firefox, go to "Tools", "Options", "Main" and enter your home page address.

If you are using a Mac and your browser is Safari, go to Safari on your top tool bar, then "Preferences" and "General" and enter
http://www.gettingthereuk.co,uk into the space for your homepage.
If your browesr is Firefox, go to Firefox on your top tool bar and follow the same procedure.

If you don't want to have Getting There as your homepage you can add it to your favourites.  The downside with this is that you may not always remember to enter the Getting There site before shopping online.  

It varies.  We currently have around 1,000 stores on the site but our Marketing Team reviews the stores each week.  When the marketing team reviews the stores we look at new stores that our members have recommended or which have contacted us and we also look at feedback we've had from our members regarding a retailer's customer service. Based on this we decide whether stores should be added or in some cases removed from the Getting There mall.

Sometimes retailers ask to join the Getting There mall in order to raise awareness of their products and services and offer lead payments only.  In these cases in the interests of maintaining the retailer's goodwill no cashback payments will be earned. 

Getting There keeps up to half of all the referral fees it receives from members using Getting There for online shopping. Getting There then uses this money to cover it's marketing, staffing and development costs.  Apart from maintaining the Getting There website Getting There's marketing costs include helping causes to run e-mail campaigns, promoting the fund -raising events and social activities causes are running and generally helping to make the cause to be better known and raise more funds.   

Your share of the referral fee is paid into your account and 100% of that is given either to you or to the cause you support.  No deductions are made for postage and administration.

Unfortunately cashback is NOT an immediate process.

Whilst many retailers send the referral fees through within 14 days some can take up to 8 weeks to let us have details of your searches and purchases.  Timescales differ according to each retailer.

Other reasons your purchases may take time to show up in your account  are:-

1. There is a 14 day returns policy on the product eg. fashion, mobiles, shoes etc.
2. It is a pre-order.  This will show up in your account as a zero value until the goods you ordered are delivered. 
3. It is a hotel, event, flight etc and the date of the booking hasn't yet passed.

Please also check the retailer's terms and conditions.

Another reason why the cashback might not be showing is if you made the purchase from amazon. Most of the retailers on Getting There provide a breakdown of the cashback individual members of Getting There have earned.  A few, including amazon don't do this.  Instead they send through a lump sum.  If you don't send Getting There the amazon e-mail confirmation when ever you buy from them then we don't know which members have been buying from amazon and so can't allocate the cashback to individual members.  Monies we receive from amazon and can't allocate are paid out to Getting There members as follows

• 45% of the unallocated amazon monies are distributed to Getting There members taking into account the value of the purchases made.
• 45% of the unallocated amazon monies are distributed to Getting There members taking into account the number of purchases made
• 10% of the unallocated funds is distributed wholly at the discretion of Getting There's directors amongst causes using Getting There

Unallocated monies from amazon payments and other unallocated funds are paid out with the payments for March, June, September and December.

Simple. If you know the e-mail address you registered with us then you can go to the login box and use the reset password option. 

If you have forgotten your email address as well as your password then you can contact us at

adminteam@gettingthereuk.co.uk

Getting There looks at this project as a new and exciting way in which despite the current economic climate people can help the causes they support continue to raise the funds they need.  

It's not possible for everyone to run marathons, sail an ocean or climb the highest mountains but through Getting There you too can make a positive difference to the cause you support whether it's one of the big charities or something closer to home such as helping your local school raise funds or helping a grandchild get through university.  

Getting There is extremely flexible.  Olympic athletes and West End stars all had to start somewhere. In most cases they were supported by family and friends.  Now Getting There can supplement sponsorship and help raise the funds for specialist coaching or to meet the costs of travelling to competitions, exhibitions and auditions.  

If you want to use Getting There to help a star of the future or to help raise funds for something more individual such as trekking in the Himalayas, climbing Mont Blanc or sailing the Atlantic  then you can either

• add them to the relevant category of causes, or
• you can make them a "private" cause in "Causes for Families and Friends"  In this case we will do everything we can to protect your privacy including allocating you a cause name 

Alternatively contact
adminteam@gettingthereuk.co.uk

Together we can make dreams come true.

To an extent this depends on how many other cause supporters are using Getting There. 

Getting There donates the cashbacks in your account to the cause you support as soon as practicable after the 20th of each month.
The cashback in your account will be donated automatically each month provided the aggregate cashback in all the accounts of a cause's supporters is at least £25.00.
Any cashback under this amount is carried forward to the next month.

Generally, cashbacks are tax free.  There are some exceptions however, such as where you were buying the goods for use in a business. 

The Inland Revenue's Statement of Practice SP 4/97 gives the Revenue's views on the correct treatment of cashbacks and other incentives:-

"7.  In general, ordinary retail customers purchasing goods, investments or services at arms length will not be liable to income or capital gains tax in respect of any commission, discounts or cashbacks received by them.  For example, an ordinary retail customer who, when purchasing a car, negotiates to receive part of the commission earned on the sale by the salesperson will not be liable to income or capital gains tax in respect of that commission."