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External Payments Links

Send a direct link for anyone to make a payment in the Planning Center for cash sales, at-need, pet, and trade cases. No Planning Center account needed!

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✋ You'll need to register with our processing company, First American to use this feature.

Complete your First American application here.

Enable payments in Planning Center

You will need to enable payments in the Planning Center to access this feature.

From your navigation, click the Settings icon.

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Navigate to the left side-bar menu and choose Planning Center, then click on Payments.

Planning Center > Payments

Toggle On Show in Planning Center to enable Payments in the Planning Center.

toggle show in planning center


Manage access within your organization

Customize roles to define who can view payment links.

Click Roles under the Organization section.

click organization, then roles

Select a role under Role name to edit the permissions for the role.

select a role name

Click the dropdown under This role can and check the box next to View payment links.  

View payments permission on Role Manager page


Payment & Adjustments page

Staff with access to view payment links will now see a new section on the Payments and Adjustments page titled Payment link

Payment Link on Payments & Adjustments page

Click the Copy button to the right of the link to copy the payment link.

Gif of payment link copy

Once you've shared the link with the family, they can then share the link with whoever would like to contribute a payment to the case.

Gather payments for at-need, pet cases, trade cases, and even cash sales!

 

Payments in Planning Center

When the payment link is clicked, the family will be directed to the payment page in Planning Center to make a payment with a credit card or bank draft. They will not be able to see the balance on the case or view any case information other than the decedent's name. The link will expire once the balance of the case is $0. 

A Planning Center account is not required when using the external payment link.


make a payment in planning center

Paying with a Bank draft will require bank and billing information.

Bank Draft payment option fields

Paying with a Credit card will require the card and billing information. 

Credit card payment fields