NAME Payment Processing Package

Process Online Payments

While the national NAME will continue accepting online payments for new member dues and renewal dues for your Chapter, your Chapter's individual MemberLeap account does not include an online payment option. You can purchase a Payment Processing Package if your Chapter wants to accept online payments for your event registration fees, donations, and store purchases. Online payments require that your Chapter has a credit card merchant account or PayPal account. If you do not have one of these, we can assist you in setting one up.

Merchant Accounts via Payment Gateway

Although the topic of payment gateways can be a little complex, for our purposes, think of a payment gateway as the 'glue' between MemberLeap and your merchant account and/or bank account.

Merchant Account/Bank Account <------> Payment Gateway <------> MemberLeap

On the plus side, a credit card merchant account is probably easier to use (for the end user - your members or event registrant in this case). However, the costs involved can be prohibitive for some Chapters.

To use a credit cart merchant account, you will want to talk to your financial institution or merchant account provider, and ask if they use one of our supported gateways. We currently support:

• Authorize.net (click here to set up an authorize.net account)
• PayPal - Payflow Payment Gateway
• ClearGate
• Beanstream
• CheckCare
• Converge (formerly Virtual Merchant)
• Cybersource
• Durango Merchant Services
• eProcessing Network
• First Data Global Gateway Virtual Terminal (formerly Linkpoint)
• Heartland Payment Systems
• iATS Payments
• iTransact
• Merchant eSolutions
• Moneris (Canadian clients' only)
• Pay Junction
• Pay Leap
• Payeezy Gateway (formerly Global Gateway e4)
• Quantum Gateway Network
• USA ePay

If you have a different gateway you need to use, let us know. We typically can integrate a new gateway in 2-3 hours (billable). Please note: Square does not offer an API that allows us to integrate with it.

Costs involved will vary from provider to provider, so if you don't have a merchant account, you may want to shop around to find an offer that will reflect the nature of your transactions. For example if you have a high volume of low-cost transactions, you may want to look for lower transaction fees. If the opposite, you may want to look for lower 'discount rates' (%-based fees).

Once your merchant account provider has your gateway set up, you will want to contact Vieth Consulting to assist you in integration and run a few tests to verify everything is working correctly.

PayPal

For Chapters who want to save money and if your transaction volume is low, PayPal is an excellent option.

On the down side, PayPal adds a little more indirection for the end user (event registrant). They will be leaving MemberLeap web pages, and be processing their transaction on the PayPal website. This can be confusing to some. Also, PayPal will prompt the payer to log-in, and if non-PayPal users don't see the "click here if not a member" button, this can cause confusion as well.

But, it is a valid option for many groups who have low-volume transactions.

To set-up PayPal, you will need to create a PayPal account for your Chapter. Ideally, you should set it up with an Chapter-based email address (treasurer@yourgroup.org). So that if the contact people in the Chapter change, the email account will not have to change.

The account is free, but is subject to transaction fees. Go to PayPal to find out what the current fees are.

To hook-up the PayPal account with the system, you will be using PayPal's Instant Payment Notification (IPN). When you have your PayPal account established, contact Vieth Consulting for procedures on how to set-up your PayPal account with IPN.