Electronic Contributions

[latricia00]

Help...I have people that want to pay tithes and offering having money from their account sent to the church's account. I have no clue on how to set this up. Can someone please help?

[NeilZ]

Help...I have people that want to pay tithes and offering having money from their account sent to the church's account. I have no clue on how to set this up. Can someone please help?

Version 10 is integrated with a company (Paperless Payments) that the contributor can setup such direct debits with. There is a pricing schedule that has two options, the contributor pays all transaction and handling fees, or the church can do so.

There is a link from the Version 10 upgrading information page to their site for more info:
http://www.powerchurch.com/features/upgrade/

You can also tell the contributor to setup the automatic payment with their bank, and the bank will send a check to the church. At my last church, these checks were dropped in the drop safe, and counted in the normal Sunday collection. This can be the easiest way to do this for both the contributor & the church; since the bank usually charges a set monthly fee to the account owner for all automatic payments no matter how many, and the church doesn't have to worry about making sure they download payment information every week.

New in Version 10, you can track these type of automatic payment checks in the contributions module as you can now add additional payment types to the system besides the included cash, check, credit card and online through the new Contributions Maintain Custom Codes function.

It also has a new function that will allow you to setup repeating contributions that you can view and release individually or as a group by giving pattern (IE: weekly, monthly, quarterly, etc)

Hope this helps.

[Kristi]

We offered online contribution services through our local bank and had only 2 responses.

If we now try to offer thithing using credit cards, how would that work? I have read about giving Kiosks. At this point they are expensive.

We have a fund raising company for our capital funds campaign. They asked if we are set up to take credit cards...I am assuming for our pledge drive date in a few months. We are not. Would this be something that would be handled through the company Paperless Payments? Do they have any involvement with contributions made online on church websites?

Thank you~Kristi

[NeilZ]

We offered online contribution services through our local bank and had only 2 responses.

If we now try to offer thithing using credit cards, how would that work? I have read about giving Kiosks. At this point they are expensive.

We have a fund raising company for our capital funds campaign. They asked if we are set up to take credit cards...I am assuming for our pledge drive date in a few months. We are not. Would this be something that would be handled through the company Paperless Payments? Do they have any involvement with contributions made online on church websites?

Thank you~Kristi

Exactly what does the 'fund raiser' mean by 'handling credit cards'?? Do they mean, one time contributions, or something that can be done on a recurring basis ??

According to the data here on Paperless Payments as well as their website, they can handle payments from a bank account or credit card, either as recurring or one-time payments. The customer would logon to an account at Paperless Payments.

I'd review this article:
http://www.powerchurch.com/support/answ ... icle_id=61

and then check out their website: http://www.paperlesspayments.com/

There are two payment methods:
1a: a $1.00 fee to the contributor for EFT (electronic checking from their bank account)
1b: a $1.00 fee plus a low percentage of the payment for credit card usage

or
2. the church pays the above fees instead.

[Kristi]

Exactly what does the 'fund raiser' mean by 'handling credit cards'?? Do they mean, one time contributions, or something that can be done on a recurring basis ??



Sorry~that was another project. We are having a revival in a month and that is who asked about the credit cards. Since I'm not the one in direct contact with this person, I don't really know what he is requesting.

Thanks~Kristi