Payment Processing

With School Website System, users can make credit card payments on event registration forms, on giving forms, and when placing an order in the store. With Enrollment Management System, prospective families can pay by credit card when they submit an application form. 

You must use a payment gateway to automatically process credit card transactions. If you want to use different accounts for various forms, you can enter multiple accounts. Each account must first be created with the payment gateway.

Enter the account information for your payment gateway when you configure payment processing.

  1. Select Core.

  2. Select Settings.

  3. Select Payment settings.

  4. You might need to also select which type of payment processing form to configure.

  5. Select Add new account.

  6. Then select the payment Gateway.

  7. Enter the details required for the specific gateway and your account. 

  8. Save when finished.

    Note: When a site visitor manually cancels a payment, only basic payment data is captured. But when the gateway declines a transaction, managers can see more detailed information.

Based on the gateway you select, you'll need to enter addition data to configure payments:

Blackbaud Merchant Services (BBMS) is a payment gateway that caters exclusively to non-profits. It supports credit cards, EFT, and recurring gifts. 

  • Active - Select this to activate the account so it can be used with event registration forms, giving forms, online application forms, contracts and/or with the store.

  • Account Login - Enter the login name from your payment gateway account (this will be provided by the payment gateway).

  • Password - Enter the password from your payment gateway account (this will be provided by the payment gateway).

  • Description - Enter a unique name for the account (e.g. Capital campaign account, Annual fund account, Alum events account). 

    You need to setup a Blackbaud Payment Services account and a Blackbaud Merchant Services account before activating that payment type on your forms. If you are plan to enable recurring gifts for a giving form, you will be able to monitor these using the Recurring payments (Do this from School Website , Content, Recurring payments.)