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Batch Credit Card Processing

If your church allows people to give with a debit (using the Visa or MasterCard networks) or credit card, you have the ability to run these transactions in a batch using Batch Credit Card ProcessingThe ability to process several credit card transactions together within a batch. This service is available if you have a payment gateway enabled..

Getting Started

To use batch credit card processing, your church must have several things in place as follows:

• You must have a payment gateway enabled. Go to Giving > Setup > Account References and check the Payment Gateway ID field. If there is no option in the drop-down list, you do not have a payment gateway. See Getting Started with Online Payment Processing for details.
• You must configure Account References. This is the action that enables your payment gateway. The name will typically be "Giving", but you can name it whatever you want.
• Finally, you must tie the account reference to any fund you want to use while using batch credit card processing. Simply edit the fund and select the "Giving" account reference, save your fund and you are ready!

When to Use Batch Credit Card Processing

This feature is typically used when your giving envelopes include a space that allows the entry of credit card information. As shown below, this tithe envelope has a special space for this purpose.

Giving Envelope

One benefit of using Batch Credit Card Processing is that all credit card transactions can be run and immediately associated with the contributor in one step. Additionally, when processing a split contribution (split between funds), only one transaction fee is charged rather than a fee per split.

Topics to explore:

Creating a Credit Card Batch

Adding Credit Card Contributions

Authorize the Credit Card Batch

Settling a Credit Card Batch

Auditing a Credit Card Batch