Phase 2 — Early-access waitlist now open

Your nonprofit. Zero-interest lending. No engineers required.

If your community-lending nonprofit wants to operate a 0%-interest loan program — the full stack: application review, donor ledger, KYC, compliance, Recovery, and Marketplace orchestration — you can run it on our platform. White-labeled to your brand. Configurable to your community's framework. Live in weeks, not years.

Who this is for

Community-lending nonprofits of every framework.

The 0%-interest mechanism is universal. The Bait al-Mal model belongs to no single tradition. We provide the trust infrastructure; you bring your community and your governance.

Muslim community lenders

Regional Muslim community-lending nonprofits operating their own Qard Hassan programs. Sharia-compliance toggle ON. Your own Sharia Supervisory Board. Same engine that powers qardon.org.

Christian community lenders

Diocesan benevolence funds, biblical-stewardship community lenders, parish-level mutual-aid funds. Partner-defined ethical investment policy and language. We adapt the platform to your framework.

Jewish gemach organizations

Gemach is the traditional Jewish interest-free lending society, in operation for centuries. Modern gemachs need modern infrastructure. We provide it without forcing you to abandon your governance traditions.

Sikh community pools

Community-funded interest-free pools operated by gurdwaras and Sikh community foundations. Your sangat. Your governance. Our technology.

Secular mutual-aid networks

Mutual-aid networks, time banks, secular community-finance cooperatives operating 0%-interest pools as a community-resilience strategy. Universal-access language. Same compliance backbone.

Any 501(c)(3) operating 0% lending

If your nonprofit's mission is interest-free lending — regardless of theological framework — and you have 501(c)(3) status (or international equivalent), you're in the audience. Universal.

Capabilities

Five technology pillars. One platform. Your brand.

0%-interest lending engine

Application intake (three paths: auto-eProfile, conversational AI, traditional form), AI Application Judge, manual review queue, disbursement orchestration, installment collection, humane-default flow.

Per-donor ledger

Every contribution becomes a perpetually-revolving entry. Donors see cycles, families served, aggregate impact — never identifying details. Optional forgiveness flow for permanent hardship.

Compliance engine

KYC, AML, OFAC screening, ECOA non-discrimination guardrails, FCRA-compliant credit decisioning, GDPR + CCPA data subject rights — built in.

Recovery program (optional)

Calamity-aid covering missed installments for members hit by medical emergency, job loss, or natural disaster. Funded from your own pool yield or operating budget; rules configurable per partner.

Marketplace orchestration

If your community wants peer-to-peer interest-free asset transactions (seller financing for cars, homes, equipment), the Marketplace engine plugs in to your tenant directly. Optional.

Multi-tenant architecture

Per-tenant D1 partition. Per-tenant R2 storage. Per-tenant Stripe Connect sub-account. Per-tenant AI namespace. Zero cross-tenant data leak by design — verified by CI.

Configurable per partner

Compliance-framework toggle.

The 0%-interest mechanism is universal. Everything else — language, governance reference, default-treatment framing, investment policy — is your partner-level configuration. Like Stripe enforces PCI-DSS without enforcing your business's faith.

Universal baseline (applies to every partner)

  • 0%-interest on loan principal — non-negotiable
  • Dignity preservation — no need-story video, no borrower humiliation
  • Humane default treatment — no court-ordered eviction from a primary residence
  • ECOA non-discrimination (US) / jurisdictional equivalent
  • KYC, AML, OFAC screening — all jurisdictions

Per-partner configurable

  • Sharia compliance toggle (ON for Muslim partners, OFF for others)
  • Governance reference (your own SSB, ethics board, halacha review, or partner-defined oversight)
  • Default-treatment language (Quranic basis / biblical stewardship / gemach tradition / secular framework)
  • Investment policy (halal-only, partner-defined ethical, partner-defined)
  • Branding (logo, color palette, fonts, language i18n, custom domain)
Pricing

Transparent. Paid by your nonprofit. Never extracted from donors or borrowers.

The 0%-fee principle applies at every partner: 100% of every donation enters your pool whole; 100% of every loan reaches your borrower whole. Our fees are paid by you, out of your operating budget — never skimmed from end-user flows.

Three transparent fee layers

1 · Monthly SaaS subscription — tiered by your pool size

Starter

Pool < $500K

$500/mo

Growth

$500K–$5M

$2,000/mo

Scale

$5M–$50M

$10,000/mo

Enterprise

> $50M

Custom

2 · Per-application fee — flat $15 per loan application

Flat amount, NOT a percentage of loan amount. This structure is legally critical — it ensures the fee cannot be construed as interest under usury laws.

3 · Referral commission — 5% when we bring you the traffic

When we refer a donor or borrower to your nonprofit (via Live Athan, qardon.org cross-referral, or our masjid widget network), we charge 5% of that transaction value. Paid by your nonprofit out of operating budget — never extracted from the donor's contribution or the borrower's disbursement. A standard B2B referral-services arrangement, NOT a loan-origination kickback.

Plus standard Stripe pass-through (2.9% + 30¢ per payment) — paid by the contributor at each transaction, disclosed transparently, not our revenue.

All three fee layers are paid by YOUR nonprofit from operating budget. The donor sees 0% extraction. The borrower sees 0% extraction. The 0%-fee principle at the end-user layer is preserved at every partner — that's the whole point.

Regulatory posture

Built natively for compliance. Not bolted on.

We've built this for institutions that take regulatory bar seriously — because we operate the platform for qardon.org, which has to clear the same bar. Same compliance backbone serves you.

KYC + Identity

Identity verification on every member, applicant, and beneficiary. Configurable vendor (Persona, Stripe Identity).

AML + OFAC

Transaction monitoring + sanctions screening across all flows. Standard fintech compliance.

ECOA + Reg B

Non-discrimination guardrails on every decisioning surface. No demographic decisioning. Period.

FCRA

Compliant credit decisioning. Adverse-action notices generated automatically with proper decline-reason codes.

GDPR + CCPA

Data-subject rights — access, deletion, portability — built into every partner tenant.

PCI-DSS

Compliance via Stripe Connect. We never touch raw card data; Stripe handles.

Per-tenant data isolation

Architectural enforcement. CI scanner verifies every query is tenant-scoped. Zero cross-partner leak.

Form 990 export

Each partner can export its own Schedule O/R data, financial inputs, and operating-cost breakdowns directly from the dashboard.

Partner with us

Phase 2 launch · Early-access waitlist.

Phase 2 is approximately 12–24 months out. We're collecting early-access interest now. First pilot partners will be referenceable case studies in our second year — preferred terms for these slots.

Routed to partnerships@qardon.com. Pilot-partner conversations are confidential. We'll respond within five business days.

Frequently asked

Partner FAQ.

How does the partnership work, in one paragraph?

Your nonprofit signs a partner agreement and receives a tenanted, white-labeled instance of the qardon.com platform — branded to your organization, configured to your governance framework, isolated from every other partner's data. Your donors give to your pool, your borrowers apply through your portal, your board governs your operations. We provide the engine, the compliance backbone, the integrations, and the support. You provide the community, the capital, and the mission.

What does it cost?

Three transparent layers: monthly SaaS subscription tiered by pool size ($500 / $2,000 / $10,000 / Custom), flat $15 per loan application processed (NOT a percentage — that's legally critical to avoid origination-fee classification), and 5% referral commission only when we bring you traffic from Live Athan, qardon.org cross-referral, or our masjid widget network. Plus standard Stripe processing pass-through. All fees are paid by your nonprofit out of operating budget — never extracted from donor or borrower flows.

Will it conflict with our existing governance?

No. Your Board, your Sharia Supervisory Board (or equivalent), your investment policy, your default-treatment language, your community framework — all stay yours. We provide a compliance-framework toggle that adapts the platform to your tradition. We enforce the universal baseline (0% interest, ECOA non-discrimination, KYC/AML, dignity preservation, no court-ordered eviction). Everything else is your call.

How long does deployment take?

Weeks, not years. Multi-tenant architecture means we don't build new infrastructure per partner — we configure your tenant. Brand setup, governance configuration, KYC vendor wiring, custom domain, and pilot-borrower onboarding typically run 6 to 12 weeks. Enterprise tier with custom integrations runs longer.

Is our donor and borrower data isolated from other partners?

Yes — architecturally, not just by policy. Per-tenant D1 database partition. Per-tenant R2 storage. Per-tenant Stripe Connect sub-account. Per-tenant AI namespace. Continuous integration scanners verify that every query is tenant-scoped before code ships. There is no cross-partner data leak by design, and no operator at qardon.com can access your data without an audit-logged access event.

Do you require Sharia compliance?

No. The Sharia-compliance configuration is a per-partner toggle. Muslim partners turn it ON and get the full Sharia overlay (halal investment policy, defined governance language, Quranic-derived default treatment). Non-Muslim partners turn it OFF and use a partner-defined ethical framework. The universal baseline (0% interest on principal) is non-negotiable for every partner regardless of framework.

When does the partner program go live?

Phase 2 — approximately 12 to 24 months from the waitlist opening. First pilot partners will be referenceable case studies in our second year and receive preferred terms for those slots (locked pricing, priority support, early-access feature input). Join the waitlist and we'll reach out when pilot conversations open.