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Once the token has been converted, to get started with Auto Pay, you must first enable or Turn On Auto Pay, for your club. To do so, click on System, and Club Settings. From here, select the Auto Pay tab across the top. Turn on either or both Auto Pay options (Auto Pay - ACH or Auto Pay - Credit Cards) depending on your Club’s requirements.

 

Allow Partial Payments

Next, determine whether your Club will allow partial payments or whether your Club will require the full statement balance to be paid.  To allow partial payments, check the Allow Partial Payments box.

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Then, optionally define blackout dates to prevent auto payments from being scheduled by Members. This feature helps Clubs manage Cash Flow, Club Payments and Processing in a timely and effective manner. Users can Blackout days for One-Time Payments as well as Scheduled Payments.

For example, blocking out the first or last few days of the month may be helpful to ensure a smooth month-end process. Place a check in the box next to the day(s) to black out. Checking Last Days of Month will block out the 28th through the last day of the month.

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If your Club is assessing Members a service fee as part of the Payment options, optionally, edit the Service Charge Column Name (i.e. - Service Charges are not legal in your state, and you are assessing an Admin Charge instead).

 

Dependent Privileges

 Users have the ability to check a setting that will elevate privileges of Dependents to view statements, gift cards, and credit book balance of the linked Billing Member. Dependents, upon logging in, are then able to view the main Billing Member’s statements, gift card balances, and credit book balances.

 

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Multiple AR Accounts

 

 

 Within Club Settings and Statements, Users can set the Statement view to show Multiple AR Accounts.

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Please Note: This feature also needs to be set up in Office; option to Sync Multi AR Data to PayCloud, as shown below.

 

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Users also have the ability to change the Statement Display Name of each account to avoid confusion. Display Name can be accessed from Club Settings, then AR Accounts.

 

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Club Settings - Website

The Website tab contains the Landing page that can be set for Members when they connect to PayCloud.  Initially this is typically set to display Statements.  Oftentimes, however, Clubs accepting online payments may choose to change this to Make a Payment.

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Club Logo

 

The logo appearing on the Statements may be changed here.  Click to upload.

 

Keep Statements For

 

This field controls how many months of statements will be viewable online for the Members.  After selected time, system will purge older records. In the event you set this for a longer period of time than initially set, you will need to do an initial statement push from the database to populate the additional periods.

 

Edit Service Charge Column Name

 

If your Club is assessing Members a service fee as part of the Payment options, optionally, edit the Service Charge Column Name (i.e. - Service Charges are not legal in your state, and you are assessing an Admin Charge instead).

 

Club Settings - Website

 

The Website tab contains the Landing page that can be set for Members when they connect to PayCloud.  Initially this is typically set to display Statements. Oftentimes, however, Clubs accepting online payments may choose to change this to Make a Payment.

 

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Club Settings - Payments

This setting dictates what payment options appear for your Members to make an online payment.  Available options are those that have been set up for your Club.

Payment Notifications

 

 Users have multiple options for changing Payment Notifications for Members and Admins

 

Member Notifications

Turn on email notifications to your Members by checking the Payment Processed and/or the Payment Error settings as shown below.  When Payment Processed setting is enabled, an email will be sent to Member confirming successful payment.  Payment Error setting generates an email to Member when payment was attempted, but not successfully processed. For Non-ETS V3, the payment notifications are delivered by the payment processor you are using. Image Removed 

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Missing Payment Account, if checked, will send a reminder to the Member three days before the scheduled payment date for all those without an associated payment account.

 

Admin Notifications

 

Users can edit Admin notifications to send when a Payment has Failed, and update the email to which the notification will go, under Club Settings, then Payment Notifications.

 

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Manage your System

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Please Note: Password must be longer than six digits, needs one uppercase character, and one numeric character.

Reports

Payment History

 This report contains the payments made by Members using the PayCloud system.  The report can easily be filtered (using the predefined filters) and/or customized (using the date range feature) to quickly display the data desired.  Easily view payments from Today, the Past Week, Past Month.  Also, for Clubs with Autopay enabled, easily view the payments based on status Successful or Unsuccessful.

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Note: Filters can be applied, and details can be exported (as shown below).

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Private Content

The Private Content section contains a couple of areas relevant to Clubs utilizing the PayCloud online payment and statement features.  While these areas are typically addressed/populated during implementation, it is important to note where/how these items can be modified as needed.

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When ready to Post, go to Membership, Approve Payment Batches, select the batches, and post.

NOTE: In the event a payment is rejected by the Processor (which can take up to (3) days), it is important to use the Merchant Reporting available from the Processor to identify the adjustment that must be manually input into the Office batch(es) for rejections.  These do NOT automatically flow through to the Office system.  To

Deleting a Batch/Transaction

To delete a rejected transaction, while in Approve Payment Batches, expand the batch with the rejection, highlight and right-click on the row/transaction (rejection) to delete, and select Delete.

 

Users can also delete Batches that have not yet run, in PayCloud, as seen below.

 

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Best Practices

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