Please allow the acceptance of eChecks / ACH payments
We have authorize.net as our payment gateway, which does allow for the acceptance of eChecks, only your forms are not enabled for that type of payment. Please enhance your payment types to include the acceptance of eChecks through authorize.net! Thank you!
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Lynn Richardson
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It would be useful to be able to accept ACH payments through our payment options
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Kyle Vogel
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Oleg - back in 2017, the statement was made that this might happen by the end of that year. It is now 2020. We just became Wild Apricot subscribers and paid for a year in advance. I can honestly say that I would probably have gone with a different provider if I had known that ACH/EFT payments were not accepted. Most of our small owners are on a tight budget as it is and are not fans of paying credit and debit card processing fees. Which means, they will continue to send me in paper checks each month to pay their dues. For me, this defeats the purpose of having an online membership login presence because it doesn't reduce the workload for me on the back end.
Other property management and association management software include ACH/EFT processing as default, so it is surprising that a solution like Wild Apricot is so far behind the times on payment acceptance options.
Hoping for a positive resolution to this before our renewal next year.
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No news here unfortunately
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Sebastian Ostolaza
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Any progress on this?
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Anonymous
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It would be a huge help to add e-check integration with AffiniPay! Please consider having this integrated soon, as it has been requested by many over the span of 8 years.
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CCS
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Please add ACH (e-check) integration with AffiniPay in addition to credit cards.
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J.Nichol
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Accept EFTs
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Wayne (payments) Aaron
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Process electronic checks for payment
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Alex Sirota commented
Support for EFT payments like Interac all over the world would be a terrific value add for WA Payments! +1
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Garry Swanson
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Accept Debit (Interac) payments through Wild Apricot Payments.
Hi
I would be really beneficial to accept Debit Transactions -
Anita Byrnes
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I agree that an interface with POLI would be ideal for AU/NZ organizations
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Sandy Runyon
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There needs to be a tender option for "ACH"
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@Gregory,
1. We always have to balance between different features to work on having limited resources. Right now we are just focused on another stuff.
2. Techincally, we're not ready to accept ACH payments. These are different beasts than credit card payments (the main difference is that payment confirmation comes in several days, not seconds). We have to prepare our payments architecture for such types of payments first. This is something that is still in works right now.
Oleg, Product owner @ Payments team
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Gregory E Sharp
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Oleg, could you provide more detail as to why this is not a priority?
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wkc
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Looking for club software but passing on WA because lack of eChecks. Otherwise would have gone forward, bummer.
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Michael,
No progress here yet, neither is anticipated in nearest future.
Oleg, Product owner @ Payments team
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Michael Starr
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Can we get an update on this. It's hard to believe this isnt supported since the payment providers support it. This saves thousands of dollars for small clubs - it should be a the top of the list!
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Daniel Favier
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If integrated with Payment Express (DPS) then this feature (bank to bank) is also available through a solution called Account2Account.
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Gregory E Sharp
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I would like to add my vote to the voices here looking for the ability to receive eChecks through Wild Apricot. Aside from the previously stated financial incentives to do EFT instead of credit cards, our cooperative is also interested in the implicit requirement of having a bank account in place as an additional security measure/identity verification. It looks like this request has been out there for quite a while now and I doubt that any of the good reasons for this request have changed, so I do hope this is on the short list of upcoming improvements. I can plainly say that at our organization scales, the lack of EFT support would be the primary driver to move off wild apricot.
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Thanks for posting this, Alex
a) We plan to finish architectural updates of WA payments system by the end of this year. This will allow us to release a number of requested payment method updates, including ACH payment (but no promises here - it's still a bunch of work).
b) Until then, you can record ACH payments manually in WA using approach you suggested. You will still need to create a manual payment record for such payment though, and there's no need to turn off online payments.
Oleg, Product Designer @ Wild Apricot
