Contribution payment plans on the web

Hi David.

I don’t believe TNEW V.7 will allow for payment plans for contributions.

We are currently in the final stages of testing for a TNEW customization in order to allow for payment plans.  It basically adds a page between the contribution page 1 page and the checkout page. When we go live I can let you know if you’d like and you can take a look.

I’m not sure how it will or won’t work with ticket payment plans as we aren’t currently using payment plans for ticket orders.

Here is a rough description of how contribution payment plans will work:

The contribution page 1 will basically just be a page where the donor selects which fund they want to donate to and how much, then when they click donate it will take them to a new custom page (run by a custom system table and some back end code) where the donor selects one time gift or the type of payment plan they would like and any other information we want to collect.  If the donor selects one of the payment plans we’ve set up then the total amount charged will automatically change to the correct amount.

The tricky part for us was we wanted TNEW & Tess to recognized the total amount of the pledge and assign an appropriate donor constituency based on that and allow the donor to access the appropriate benefits for that level in the same order as their donation.

Laurel

Cal Performances

Thanks for the comments everyone.

@Laurel - would love to know more when you get yours up and running in TNEW. Please keep me in the loop!

Hi David,

The closest we got was for our Vanguard program, which is a philanthropy program that has monthly, quarterly or annual payments. It's a bit of a cheat, but we set up the dropdown on contribute2.aspx to ask which option you want to choose. 

It then displays a suggested donation of the appropriate monthly, quarterly or annual amount. If you select one of the first two, the appropriate text appears saying that we will debit this amount every month/quarter thereafter.

Then, when the donation arrives for that particular fund, the Development team takes the first donation and sets up a pledge for the rest. It's not automated, obviously, but at least it lets people express part-payment options. 

You can see that here:

https://www.sydneysymphony.com/support-us/get-involved/vanguard

Hi David,

The closest we got was for our Vanguard program, which is a philanthropy program that has monthly, quarterly or annual payments. It's a bit of a cheat, but we set up the dropdown on contribute2.aspx to ask which option you want to choose. 

It then displays a suggested donation of the appropriate monthly, quarterly or annual amount. If you select one of the first two, the appropriate text appears saying that we will debit this amount every month/quarter thereafter.

Then, when the donation arrives for that particular fund, the Development team takes the first donation and sets up a pledge for the rest. It's not automated, obviously, but at least it lets people express part-payment options. 

You can see that here:

https://www.sydneysymphony.com/support-us/get-involved/vanguard