Jonas has a great system for keeping control of when and how member account payments are made. This module is called the PreAuthorized Payment (PAP) module.

Many clubs find that they lose controls when they allow membership to pay their bills online or rack up unwanted transactions fees with ePayment but still want to offer their membership the service of automated bill payment. For those clubs -- this is the perfect solution. Another scenerio we've used this utility for are clubs (Semi or Daily fees) who give their members two options of paying for the daily charges: at point of purchase (cash or credit card) OR accounting charges their bank account or credit card when the end of day update is run.

How does this work?

* Banking and/or Credit Card information is setup on the member's account. (We have the ability to setup threshold amounts, multiple accounts, etc).
* Day of processing payments arrives.
* Accounting creates the batch export file(s) of member’s payments using the PAP module for processing through your credit card and bank/ACH network.

* The processing agent (bank or credit card company) processing the payments and verifies all transactions processed correctly.
* Accounting selects apply payments. Payments are then applied to members accounts.

Nice features of this module:

* Club chooses date that batch is run.
* Stop manual authorization of multiple credit cards.
* Automates member payment posting which saves time and reduces manual processing.
* Ensure billing accuracy with automated process (don't we hate those "human" errors?).
* Prevent declined charges through the Expiration Report.

Please contact me if you would like more information or would like information on the Online ePayment solutions