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Introduction to Payments & Giving
With Payments & Giving it gets easy for your church to receive payments and donations online. Payments & Giving Projects are easy to create and share on your website, via social media, newsletters and text messages. Every person who makes a contribution to the church automatically gets added to your People module. Thus, it is easy to keep all contributors informed about your projects and church development.Some readersSet up ChurchDesk Payments
Important: Have you previously filled out information or uploaded ID? Our payment provider, Stripe, has made changes to accommodate new EU requirements (Anti-Money Laundering Directive). Therefore, you may be asked to provide more information and possibly upload more documentation so that they can verify your church. We apologize for any inconvenience. First time setting up ChurchDesk Payments To get started selling tickets, receiving payments and donations, you need to first registerSome readersWhat does it cost to use ChurchDesk Payments?
United Kingdom: Per transaction 2.60% (rounded of to the nearest penny) and a fixed fee of £ 0.20 Outside of EU and UK we support - NOK, CHF, SGD, MXN, USD & CAD: Per transaction 3.90% (rounded of to the nearest cent) and a fixed fee equivalent of $0.37 will be charged in local currency (subject to change in currency rates). Is your currency not included? We are happy to add this. Please e-mail us at: support@churchdesk.comFew readers
Payments & Donations
Payments & Giving FAQ
How does it work? We work with Stripe - one of the largest providers of online transactions - to accept payments. Every year they process several million dollars to tens of thousands of companies worldwide. These include both Fortune 500s and small business. You can read more about our partner on their website Payments & Giving is very easy to use, and you won't even notice that we are using a third-party provider. You get the security and reliability without having to usePopularOverview of Payments & Giving
In Payments & Giving it is easy to get an overview of all contributions that are donated/paid to the church online. This information can easily be exported to Excel, so that the information on donations can be sent to the tax. Simply select "Export" and then the time period.PopularDonation Widget
The donation widget automatically displays all your active donation projects. It can be embedded on any website. This article will show you how to customise your donation widget and where to find the code and QR Code for sharing. Gift aid is supported for donations made through the widget. You find the icon for the widget on the left hand black sidebar of the module “Payments & Giving”. Widget location (https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/be3725c5cc2ea800/screenshot-2022-10-17Some readersGift Aid
When creating a donation project in ChurchDesk, you can choose if it should allow gift aid for this project. If you don't want to allow gift aid, then remove the tick when creating the donation project. It is not possible to enable or disable gift aid after a donation project has received a donation. ChurchDesk does not generate a visual gift aid declaration. However, when someoneSome readersCreate and share projects
Create a project You are able to create either a Donation project or a Payment project by clicking 'Create project'. Donation project has the option of accepting Gift-Aid. Gift-Aid is only an option for donation projects. Add title, start date and stop date, description, Gift-Aid choice and image. The date option enables you to control a time period in which you will be able to receive contributions. The system automatically lets people know that the contribution is closed if they hFew readers