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Set Up Your eGiving Provider

An eGiving solution such as Abundant, in collaboration with PDS, can process one-time or recurring collections to major credit cards, checking, and savings accounts electronically. Use this feature for weekly, monthly, or periodic contributions, pledge drive payments, or tuition and fee payments.

Tip: If you would like to use Abundant for online, mobile, and text giving, see the help topic Create an Abundant Account for more information.

You must complete several steps prior to using the electronic giving (EFT) feature with PDS.

  1. Contact a clearing house company to obtain a company ID and password.
  2. On the File menu in your PDS program, click Setup > eGiving Setup.
  3. To stop a family's scheduled deductions if their PDS account balance is zero or they overpaid on a fund, select Check for balance due when assigning charges.
    Note: If you don't select this option, the scheduled deduction occurs regardless.
  4. Select what you use for transactions, and enter your information.
  5. If you use Vanco, you can test your connection by entering your account credentials and clicking Test Connection.
    A message lets you know whether your credentials are correct. If the credentials are invalid, make sure your information is spelled correctly and case-sensitive. If the message persists, contact Vanco for assistance.
  6. If you process Vanco online payments and want to see if donors have recurring payments, select Import Recurring Payments as PDS Terms and Rates. Optionally, you can ignore any recurring payments before a certain date. If you don't track pledge information in PDS or if you don't send statements of pledging, clear this option.
    Note: If selected, when processing your online payments, you can view the recurring payment information. Then, the new terms and rates are created for those. It won't duplicate existing rates.
  7. If you import Vanco recurring payments as terms and rates, you can select to treat one-time Vanco payments as pledges.
  8. Click Save/OK.

You must enter the family's terms and rates for payment before you can obtain the family's bank account or credit card information. For more, see Post eGiving.

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Last updated: November 4, 2024