Important Note:
This help guide refers to legacy forms. To access information regarding pay later options for new forms, refer to these help guides:
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Enabling Alternate Payment
Add the Alternate Payment Section to the public and constituent versions of your Credit Card payment page to give constituents the option to pay later.
The image below is an example of how the Alternate Payment option would appear on your credit card/payment page.
To add this payment option, navigate to the Settings cog (⚙) > Global Settings > Forms & Web Pages > Standard Forms > Configure Fields & Sections.
Step 1: Select Page
The Credit Card payment page can be configured for Public Access and Constituent pages.
Step 2: Select Page Fields
The deferred payment option is found in your Credit Card Page Fields Selector as Alternate Payment.
Find Alternate Payment under the list of available fields and place it under a section in the right hand column. Click Continue.
Step 3: Customize Page
From this page you can choose the display name for the Alternate Payment field. The default label for this payment option is I will mail in a check or money order. You might want to add information about where your constituents can send or bring their payment in the section around this field.
Once added to your form, It will appear on your payment page as shown below.
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Managing Deferred Payments
When this payment option is selected, the status of the transaction record in NeonCRM will be set to DEFERRED until payment is received and added to the record.
Adding Payment
Once you receive the check/money order, the payment can be added to the deferred record by a system user.
Navigate to the deferred transaction record and click the "Add" button in the Payment Information section, as shown in the example below.
The transaction status will change from DEFERRED to SUCCEED once the total payment amount has been added to the record.
Constituents can also make payments through the Constituent Login Portal.
Navigate to the deferred payments in the Donation or Membership tab. Then select the Deferred payment.
Select Make Payment.
Email Acknowledgement
System Emails
You can enable automatic email and letter responses to be sent when someone chooses "pay later" to complete a transaction.
The default versions of these emails include the contact information from your Organization Profile as directions for payment.
When you receive the payment and enter it onto the transaction record, NeonCRM can then send the appropriate "success" system email when the transaction status changes from DEFERRED to SUCCEED.
You'll find these emails in Global Settings cog Global Settings Transaction Acknowledgements: System Emails
- Donation Appreciation - Pay Later
- Event Registration - Pay Later
- Membership Registration - Pay Later
- Membership Renewal Completion Notice - Pay Later
- Product Purchase - Pay Later
Read more about enabling and building new versions of system emails here.
Exit Page
You might consider creating a custom exit page to notify constituents that their transaction (donation, event registration, or membership) information was successfully received by your organization and that they will get a confirmation email upon receipt of payment. When you designate a exit page for a particular form, anyone who fills out that form will see this same exit message. For this reason, be sure the message is applicable to all constituents.
The detailed guide to creating and setting custom exit pages can be found here.
Email Audience
You can also create an Email Audience using a database search to pull in all accounts with deferred payments so that you can send out a campaign email to those people as a reminder to send or bring their payments.
To do this, use the appropriate search criteria to capture a list of accounts with deferred transactions. For example, to create an audience of accounts with deferred event registrations, you would load the search criteria "Event Registration Status: Equal DEFERRED" along with specifying the name of the event.
For donations, you would load the criteria Donation Status: Equal DEFERRED. To find accounts with deferred memberships, use Membership Status: Equal DEFERRED.
If you have a manageable number of deferred transactions, you can just copy those Account ID numbers to use as the search criteria for your audience (e.g., Account ID: In Range Of '12,67,42').
Pay Later
You have an option to select pay later for all four transaction types within the user transaction entry. These include donations, memberships, orders, and registrations. This is a back-end feature that allows you to trigger the Pay Later system emails or letters to remind constituents to pay.