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Online Giving Options Outside of Breeze

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Breeze offers online giving for churches and nonprofits in the USA and Canada. Please note that online giving outside of Breeze through these integrations is no longer available to the USA and Canada as of March 28th, 2023.

We offer several automated third-party payment options (Stripe, Paypal and Authorize.Net). When setting up one of these automated integrations you can have donations automatically show up within Breeze by using the Breeze third-party giving page. 

It should be noted that only one automated third-party integration can be used with Breeze at a time. However, you can use both Breeze's built-in Online Giving in conjunction with one of the automated third-party integrations listed below. 

Stripe 

Notice

The Stripe integration is not available for Breeze accounts created on or after March 28th, 2023, in the USA and Canada. This applies to both new accounts and existing accounts that did not have the integration enabled before this date.

Breeze's third-party giving page is not European SCA compliant when used with Stripe or Authorize.net and should not be used by European organizations or organizations with payments originating in the EU.

If you desire to use your own Stripe account with Breeze you will need to have donors give through the Breeze third-party giving page to ensure that donations map to the correct funds in your Breeze account. 

  • The Stripe third-party giving page only accepts Credit and Debit cards and is unable to process ACH gifts.
  • The third-party giving page cannot handle split fund giving.  A Donor wanting to give to multiple funds must initiate multiple gifts. Looking to handle split funds in one transaction and offer Donor Covered Fees? Check out Breeze's built-in Online Giving.
  • Donors are unable to make notes or comments on giving. 
  • You will need to reconcile online giving and issue refunds in Stripe.
  • When using the automated third-party Stripe integration, any transactions processed through the Stripe account (outside of the Breeze giving page) will also be recorded and posted into batches in Breeze. These payments while coming into Breeze, will record the payments to the default fund selected in your Breeze account, regardless of what they gave to through the native Stripe platform. 
Click here to see how to set up the Breeze third-party Stripe Giving page
  1. Go to Giving.
  2. Select Online Giving from the options on the left.
  3. Scroll to the bottom of the Online Giving page and click Third Party Giving Page where it says "Prefer to use a third party online giving option? Switch to our third party giving page."
  4. Click Select Provider under Online Giving and choose your processor (Stripe)
  5. Include your Stripe API key. 
  6. Click View More Options in the bottom left corner to edit giving page content.
  7. Once done, share the giving link with others for them to give. (Cannot be embedded) 

View More Options Allows you to:

  • Update the Page Name
  • Select the Fund or Funds you would like donors to be able to give to
  • Select a Breeze User to send Email Confirmation Receipts From
  • Update the Page Content
  • Create a confirmation page message
  • Edit and modify the confirmation receipt content that donors receive after giving to your organization

 

PayPal

Notice

The PayPal integration is not available for Breeze accounts created on or after March 28th, 2023, in the USA and Canada. This applies to both new accounts and existing accounts that did not have the integration enabled before this date.

The PayPal integration is available to countries outside of the USA and Canada, including the  European Union and Australia.

If you desire to use a PayPal account and have donations recorded in Breeze you can have donors give through the PayPal donations app page. 

To set this up so that future gifts given through Paypal come into Breeze you must edit/insert this link (with your unique subdomain typed in where it says yoursubdomain) into the PayPal Instant Payment Notification settings page, where it says notification URL: https://yoursubdomain.breezechms.com/payments/ipn

  • You will need to reconcile online giving and issue refunds in PayPal.
  • Donors are able to make notes on their giving in PayPal, but these notes do not come over into Breeze. 
  • Donors are able to offer to cover the fees through PayPal's Donations page if you select this as an option. The entire amount given will be recorded in Breeze. 
  • Receipts and confirmations of payments will need to be configured in PayPal.
  • Any gifts from PayPal will record the payments to the default fund of your Breeze account, regardless of what program (PayPals terms for fund) the donor gave to through the native PayPal platform. This means your statements through Breeze will display the default fund for all PayPal donations. 
Click here to see how to set up the Breeze third-party PayPal Giving page

If you use the Breeze third-party giving page, it does not record the fund selection properly for one-time gifts. Any one-time gifts will be recorded to the default fund for the account. If someone sets up a recurring gift, it will record the correct fund selected in the Breeze third-party giving page in Breeze.

  • You will need to reconcile online giving and issue refunds in PayPal.
  • Receipts and confirmations of payments will need to be configured in PayPal.
  1. Go to Giving.
  2. Select Online Giving from the options on the left.
  3. Scroll to the bottom of the Online Giving page and click Third Party Giving Page where it says "Prefer to use a third party online giving option? Switch to our third-party giving page."
  4. Click Select Provider under Online Giving and choose your processor (PayPal)
  5. Input your PayPal username. 
  6. Click View More Options in the bottom left corner to edit giving page content.
  7. Once done, share the giving link with others for them to give. (Cannot be embedded) 
Breeze's third-party giving page is European SCA compliant when used by European organizations or organizations with payments originating in the EU. 
If you update your PayPal email in PayPal you will also need to update it in Breeze if you are using the Breeze third-party giving page, by following the above steps and changing the PayPal username. 

Authorize.Net

Notice

The Authorize.Net integration is available to churches in Australia.
The Authorize.Net integration is not available for Breeze accounts created on or after March 28th, 2023, in the USA and Canada. This applies to both new accounts and existing accounts that did not have the integration enabled before this date.

Breeze's third-party giving page is not European SCA compliant when used with Authorize.net and should not be used by European organizations or organizations with payments originating in the EU.

If you desire to use your own Authorize.Net account with Breeze you will need to have donors give through the Breeze third-party giving page to ensure that donations map to the correct funds in your Breeze account. 

  • The Authorize.Net third-party giving page only accepts Credit and Debit cards and is unable to process ACH gifts.
  • The third-party giving page cannot handle split fund giving. Donors wanting to give to multiple funds must initiate multiple gifts. Looking to handle split funds in one transaction and offer Donor Covered Fees? Check out Breeze's built-in Online Giving.
  • You will need to reconcile online giving and issue refunds in Authorize.Net.
  • Donors are unable to make notes or comments on giving. 
  • Receipts and confirmations of payments would need to be configured in Authorize.
  • Authorize.net provides customers with the ability to customize their own giving page. Payments processed with the Authorize.Net giving page will automatically post in Breeze, however, contributions will only post (a record) to the default fund in Breeze. This is because the fund information is collected in the donation process through the Breeze/Authorize.Net giving page.
  • If you enter a contribution into the Authorize terminal it won't record a customer IP and will not push the gift over to Breeze. These gifts would need to be manually added into Breeze.
  • Authorize.net is a Communication Channel. It is not an Online Giving provider in and of itself.
How to set up the Breeze third-party Authorize.Net Giving page
  1. Go to Giving.
  2. Select Online Giving from the options on the left.
  3. Scroll to the bottom of the Online Giving page and click Third Party Giving Page where it says "Prefer to use a third party online giving option? Switch to our third-party giving page."
  4. Click Select Provider under Online Giving and choose your processor (Authorize)
  5. Input your Login Id and Transaction Key. 
  6. Click View More Options in the bottom left corner to edit giving page content.
  7. Once you've entered that information, and set up your giving page, you will be given a screen containing the link to your Breeze/Authroize.net giving page and the "Silent Post URL". The Silent Post URL has to be entered on the Authorize.net control panel in order for donations to appear in Breeze. 
  8. Once done, share the giving link with others for them to give. (Cannot be embedded) 

View More Options Allows you to:

  • Update the Page Name
  • Select the Fund or Funds you would like donors to be able to give to
  • Update the Page Content

Associations From Third Party Giving Pages

You will want to associate gifts from Breeze from your third-party giving pages with people records in Breeze. Otherwise, these gifts/payments will show in your contribution reports in Breeze as "anonymous". Once you associate a giver from your third-party giving page to Breeze, Breeze should remember the association and store the association under "Associated" Gifts. 

To associate payments/ gifts from third-party giving pages 

  1. Go to Giving.
  2. Select Online Giving from the options on the left.
  3. Scroll to the bottom of the Online Giving page and click Third Party Giving Page where it says "Prefer to use a third party online giving option? Switch to our third-party giving page."
  4. On the third-party page look for any Unassociated Contributions and type in the name of the person in Breeze to match the gift to the correct people record. 

Manual Import of Giving Into Breeze

Plenty of other online giving providers can manually be imported into Breeze. This means that you can export a file from the third-party donation system and import that file into Breeze (view specific steps). This can be done however often you desire (e.g. daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, etc).

A list of third-party giving platforms that can be manually imported into Breeze can be found by:

  1. Navigate to Account Settings (mceclip3.png) > Bulk Tasks > Import Giving.
  2. In the bottom right, use the drop-down to view the formats of the files that can be imported into Breeze. 

 

Tithely Giving: A Robust and Flexible Solution

Since Breeze became part of the Tithely family, our product and engineering teams have been working hard to build deeper connectivity between Breeze and Tithely Giving. In the meantime, you can still easily sign up for Tithely Giving and import your giving records into your Breeze ChMS account.

Why Choose Tithely Giving?

  • All-in-One Solution: Tithely Giving provides a comprehensive platform for online, mobile, text, and even in-person giving through its intuitive kiosk mode. This simplifies your giving process and provides your congregation with various ways to contribute.
  • Kiosk Mode: Tithely's kiosk mode is a game-changer for churches looking to enhance their giving experience. Set up dedicated giving stations at your church and empower your members to give conveniently during services, events, or whenever they feel inspired.
  • Robust Features: Tithely Giving goes beyond basic giving with features like recurring giving, donor management, detailed reporting, and customizable giving forms.
  • Growing Integration with Breeze: While full integration is still in development, you can already leverage Tithely Giving's existing import functionality to easily sync your giving data with Breeze.
  • Dedicated Support: Tithely offers exceptional customer support to guide you through setup, answer questions, and ensure your giving experience is seamless.

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