Another request for this feature coming from a ski club. We have events/trips that cost $$$$, and need the ability to take a deposit in the spring, and get the balance in 1 or 2 payments through the summer or early fall.

I've been asking for partial payments/installments for years. Our events cost $$$ and I have to use the API to fudge invoice amounts to work around this lack of functionality that many other membership platforms have.

We require a deposit for events at registration and the balance is due closer to the event time. We would like to ability to make a deposit of an amount that is less than the full event registration amount.

Our organization collects a deposit for most events and then allows two additional payments. Currently WA allows manual invoicing and recording of partial payments. It does not allow partial payments for online payments. Having the ability for our members to be able to make partial payments online would help significantly as a lot of them would then do online payments instead of writing checks

I would like to add the installment option for events so that members can pay partial payments up until the event. This feature would be very helpful to my organization as well as others I'm sure.

I vote for Partial Payments also with tracking so we can see (and the member can see) the remaining balance for an event registration

Maybe I don't know how this already works but can I delay the email sending of an invoice, manual or otherwise. I have members who want to do a payment plan for an event and so I want to set up 3 or 4 invoices for the amounts needed but not send them out until the agreed date.

No updates here, sorry. We have quite a lot on our plate and we always have to balance between value, number of customers, resources available, etc. Someday we will certainly get here, but no promises now.

Has anyone in the past 2 years gotten an answer from WA with a work around?
Or is this just a place to grumble about something we would like to have.

Hi - I would like to add the feature on installments for ongoing programming, not for membership. For example a monthly peer group invoiced at $X or annual at X. This would be in addition to the membership fee to join our group

Accepting partial payments on one invoice is greatly needed. It would be awesome if an updated invoice be sent to member showing new balance due once payment is made.

New a payment plan module for events -- We run a ski club and have members pay in installments for a trip. We need a way for members to register with all the cost selections, but then break it up into 3 or 4 installments. We don't ask members to pay in full in the beginning, and there may be special options like a dinner or meal ticket that differentiates one person's cost from the other's cost.

We are a ski club and would l like to allow out members to make partial payments for there trips. There is no good work around

We are a ski club, and would like to have installment payments for trips we set up. That does not appear to be a feature.

PLEASE give us the opportunity to have our members make partial payments on an open invoice. This would be a great time saver and WA that much more valuable!

So we had our Wild Apricot site integrated with PayPal. We also received membership payments by cheque, cash, Interac (Canadian electronic funds transfer system) and Square (cards swiped or numbers provided by phone). Other than the WA/PayPal integration, all methods allowed for partial payments. They also required our treasurer to manually record such payments.

When Wild Apricot introduced that 20% membership surcharge gouge last year for online payments other than their own system for US and Canadian customers, we looked very closely at our payment method mix over the last few years. We observed that only about 20% of our membership were paying through PayPal as opposed to the other methods. So the decision to just drop the WA/PayPal integration was really a no brainer. We also preferred to stay with PayPal rather than being forced to make the change that WA was pushing.

So in order to allow our members to still pay through PayPal, we simply created a PayPal button and posted the link to that on our invoices and also on a page on the website. Seen as that we were doing that anyway, we also decided to create a few additional PayPal buttons for recurring payments. Example: 2 recurring payments of 50% of the membership fee, 3 recurring payments of 33.3% of the membership fee and so on.

We felt that the added effort for the treasurer to record these PayPal payments manually (as was being done for other payment methods) was worth the saving of the 20% gouge, and at the same time we got partial payments with online payments.

I would think one workaround until partial payments is available is to use shorter term membership levels. For for a year membership could be instead modeled as x month membership levels. So if you want a 4 payment plan subscribe to the 3 month membership level and you renew every 3 months.

Here's a way to create these "trial" memberships or smaller term memberships that will need to be renewed but make it affordable for people who don't want to commit for a full year.

https://www.newpathconsulting.com/2020/02/wild-apricot-cheat-sheet-10-setting-up-a-free-trial-in-wild-apricot.html

Our members want to be able to make partial payments online too. Currently we allow our members to have a 3 month installment plan if they don't want to pay in full upfront. The deposit needs to be paid upon registration and then the following two installments each month thereafter. We are currently doing this via cheque because WA does not have this function. It's very inconvenient.

My customers would like to pay an invoice by instalments, and be able to decide and enter how much they wish to pay when using the online payment gateway.

The payment gateway automatically takes full payment for an invoice.

Partial Payments is a huge need! We have an event that meets monthly. Members can pay for the whole year or by quarter. I end up having to do all kinds of shenanigans with multiple events to accomplish this. Every time I turn around, I find another problem with the work-around I've had to use. Please do this!!