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.
07-25-2011 10:53 AM
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.
07-27-2011 04:14 PM
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
07-29-2011 02:44 PM