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Ability to allow online pledge payments.

It would be great if there was a way to allow people to pay for their pledges online. I realize this may be tricky since pledges have installments and balances, etc., but I figured it wouldn't hurt to put the idea out there. Thanks!
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  • Jan 4 2016
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  • Amy Monroe commented
    8 Jul, 2025 04:35pm

    Yes - this needs to be an option. It takes multiple steps to correct when a donor puts it in as a donation and then you have messy records showing the original "order-donation" along with the corrected pledge payment.


  • Lauren Einhorn commented
    5 Mar, 2025 11:35pm

    It is WILD that this isn't an option. Please make online pledge payments possible!

  • Sebrena Figueroa commented
    19 Apr, 2023 06:07pm

    YES....This!!! Please Blackbaud. There has to be a solution to this messy work-around. Thank you!!

  • Jennifer Carman commented
    26 Jan, 2021 03:31pm

    Refunding the payment and then re-adding as a payment is not a good solution, it causes problems for development since the see both and think there are two gifts. It is hard to exclude the refunded payment when in certain areas of Altru.

  • Guest commented
    28 Oct, 2019 09:36pm

    Yes, please come up with a way to edit the online payment and apply it to the pledge installment. 

  • Andre Palcic commented
    2 Feb, 2018 05:22pm

    Wholeheartedly agree with the detail that Maya explained. Having to refund is an issue, especially since it sometimes double counts the order and subsequent pledge payment when you run reports.

  • Maya Rosman commented
    2 Jun, 2017 08:25pm

    Even if they couldn't do this specifically through the online interface, it would be very helpful if you could apply an online payment to a pledge in the back office, so that you could apply the money to the correct place without having to do a refund to "other payment method", then book correctly using "other payment method".

    Every now and then someone just pays the money for their pledge online and what we're really like to be able to do is just be able to edit that payment so that it becomes their pledge payment instead of just a donation.

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