General Questions for Payment Assistant

Payment Assistant is included with your subscription cost of Financial Edge NXT. There are no processing fees per payment.

We have created a Get Started with Payment Assistant tutorial that walks you through an overview of the process.

That's our goal! For some customers, Payment Assistant can replace your entire process immediately. For others, there may still be a small number of payments that need to be processed separately, such as wire transfers and international payments.

Virtual cards are one-time, unique credit cards, without a physical card attached. An email is sent to the vendor with the card number, expiration date, and security code for the approved amount. The vendor processes the card like any other card payments and receives the funds.

Payment Assistant is a combination of Blackbaud technology in Financial Edge NXT and our partner, REPAY's payment capabilities to bring this offering to Blackbaud customers. We work closely together to ensure the process works well within your existing Blackbaud solutions.

Yes, you can! After you complete onboarding and setup with Payment Assistant, you can add additional accounts from Settings, Payables. For more details, see Add Bank Accounts to Payment Assistant.