Recurring Gifts Linked to Memberships

Nick Johannsen

We are currently using Net Community Membership form for our memberships signups. The process ends in having a recurring gift that is linked to the membership created with the ability for us to charge the card monthly using the EFT module in a batch.

Is it possible to do this with Online Express or Sky API?

The things we have tried and ran into:

• Online Express Membership Form:
  • (Problem) Can't do recurring gifts (Brick Wall, have to have this)
• Online Express Donation From: (Only one that might work so far)
  • We would just change the wording through existing tools or JavaScript to make it clear it is a membership monthly payment.
  • Issue (Not blocking just different): Can't charge up front. First payment is on specific day.
  • Issue: Have to manually add membership (with a lack of a membership API other than some gets endpoint this is an issue with every solution and we will have to work around this.)
    • We would do a mass import based on collection of signup info out side the BB services
• Blackbaud checkout with card tokenization and API created recurring gift
  • Issue: Membership create manually like the reset of the options.
  • Issue: Turns out that BBMS Tokenize cards can't be used in RE through the EFT plugin in batch
  • We can use them through the Automated Recurring program but I can't find a way to link the payments to a membership.
    • We are looking into how important it is to use to have the linked gift.
• Use standard checkout and create recurring gift with the credit card provided
  • Less secure than the other method as I have handle credit card even if it is just in memory.
  • Turns out I can't pass a credit card to recurring gift. Looks like Gift V2 might have that ability but they don't support recurring gift at this time.

Is any one aware of any method other than Net Community to get this done?