P&T Meeting Notes - June 2023

P&T Meeting Notes – June 2023

Laurie: API for Raiser’s Edge & Tessitura?

  • If folks are using another donor management system, they upload information manually
  • Lots of orgs just using Tessitura

Henry: TMS… They found their first charge in Adyen that’s not in Tessitura. “Widowed charge” There is a Tessitura spreadsheet that is supposed to help you reconcile. Could be a few transactions, Tessitura support is not picking up the ticket.

  • “Payment Gateway Activity Report”

Also, this report is important to recon b/w Tessitura & Adyen b/c it helps you understand where the fees are going. Bank deposit has fees taken out. You won’t match Tessitura sales to Adyen bank deposit.

There was also a problem with pledge billing, probably because Woodruff is part of a consortium. It didn’t charge anything, but it did fail. It was a Tessitura bug. Had to wait 3-4 weeks for a fix. Pledge billing seems to be working now for all consortium members.

Trini: Had to pull the plug on going live because she found a defect in address verification… Purchased the extra revenue protect for chargebacks. Trini had to build a completely separate website for testing that was on Tessitura’s servers on the east coast and went down when AWS went down. They were doing testing, they were planning on implementing revenue protect. Everything failed when they turned on the advanced address verification.

  • What Tessitura said: no address verification or everything will fail if you turn it on
    • There is some level of address verification, so the advanced package just doesn’t work

Also - There’s no plan if servers fail. No backup, no offline mode, etc. Tessitura and Adyen not responsible for customers being charged but not getting tickets.

With TMS – Deviceless entry screen freezes if PIN pad is plugged in

Phillip: Is anyone using auto-renewal with V15?

  • Prospect2 was able to build autorenewal with Stripe
  • Only thing automated is pledge billing
  • V16 will have auto renewing/renewing pledges
  • Trini has a recurring donation customization

Everyone: There were general complaints about Tessitura’s support recently

Questions: When is Tessitura ending their relationship with Windcave?