The Portal’s Online Giving page allows individuals to give financially toward your church via a one-time or recurring donation. You have the option of allowing e-checks, debit cards, and credit cards.

Giving Gateways

• We only support Authorize.net accounts.
• Payment information is passed directly to Authorize.net and is not stored in MinistryPlatform. 
• If you are unable to use Authorize.net, you must set the Configuration Settings for PORTAL: OnlineGivingUrl and/or PORTAL: MissionTripGivingUrl. Enter the URL of your online giving provider to redirect congregants to the appropriate payment page. Otherwise, an error message will display.

How it Works

• Donors who are logged in have some basic contact information auto-filled for them.
• The Congregation field selected in the online giving process filters what Program the gift is going to. The Congregation is not saved in the record; it's simply used to select the Program, which is saved in the Donation record.
• Donors will receive an email receipt. If it is a receipt for a recurring gift that has been set up, it will show $0.00 because no money was actually transacted at the time it was set up.

Recurring Giving

• Recurring gifts can be setup weekly (every week or every other week) or monthly on a specific date of the month (1st, 5th, 10th, 15th, 20th, 25th). These options are not customizable.
• Recurring gifts must have an end date. The system is designed with a rule to prevent End Dates that exceed five years from the date of setup.
• Credit card information is not stored in MinistryPlatform. As such, one-time donations require re-entry of credit card information. Credit card information for recurring donations is stored by Authorize.net for future processing.
• Future Donations are created in the MinistryPlatform database with a Subscription Code which can be used to identify them. These get reconciled by the Finance team after Authorize.net processes them.
• This option can be disabled in the configuration.