topic Re: Setting up Recurring Payments for my church at different frequncies... in Integration and Testing

Setting up Recurring Payments for my church at different frequncies...

tomgray321 — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 17:53:41 GMT

I'm the "web developer" at our church (kind of by default) and had a question about setting up recurring payments.

We are subscribed to the ARB thing.

My question is this. Can I set up a form where people can check a recurring box and then create a dropdown that lets them select the frequency of their giving? The options would be Weekly, Bi-Weekly, and Monthly. I would like them to be able to do that and then it automatically starts billing them at their selected intervals. I can go in and make a transaction an ARB subscription, but I don't want to have to do that with everyone that wants to give automatically.

I don't know a whole of programming beyond HTML, so any help would be appreciated.

Let me know what you think. Thank you soooo much. We really need to get this going.

Re: Setting up Recurring Payments for my church at different frequncies...

Trevor — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 23:14:35 GMT

Authorize.Net does not currently offer a form for allowing customers/donors to schedule their own recurring payments. While it is technically possible to create a form like this yourself using our ARB API, it would be a fairly involved process. The best optiont hat we can provide you is probably the one that you are already using by manually converting single payments into subscriptions.

Re: Setting up Recurring Payments for my church at different frequncies...

tomgray321 — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 21:44:57 GMT

Thank you so much! I guess I'll just go with that for now, too bad, cause I know there are some better options out there tailored for churches. Oh well.

Take care,

Tom