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The Transformational Payment Solution for Today’s Faith-Based Organizations

From the administration of payments, pensions and benefits, to real-time visibility over your organization’s full financial landscape, gain a single, secure solution built to meet your unique needs.

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The Solution Built for Those Who Serve

Gain greater organizational control and unify finances across all the entities you serve with the Paymentus solution—purpose built to meet the unique needs of faith-based organizations. Combine expanded payment options, easy-to-use workflow management tools, digital disbursements, seamless integrations with Church Management Software, and advanced security measures to enjoy modern stewardship made simple.

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Unify Finances Across All Entities

Simplify your ability to unite the institutions and people you serve through a comprehensive, holistic platform that addresses all critical money in / money out needs. Pay benefits, insurance, payroll and pensions, accept donations digitally, and issue timely disbursements through a single solution.

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Payment Options to Meet All Needs

Make it easier for clergy and lay employees to pay with expanded payment offerings and channels, including ACH/eCheck, credit and debit cards, and PayPal, Venmo, Apple Pay®, and Google Pay digital wallets. Make and accept payments quickly and securely through web, mobile, interactive voice response (automated phone payments), and more. You can also offer one-time and future-dated payments, as well as AutoPay for greater flexibility.

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Greater Organizational Control and Efficiency

Enable single sign-on access and visibility to maintain complete control over an administrator view and capabilities based on their role. Designed for church governance, you can also use customized payment workflows and approvals based on your organization’s business rules and roles. Plus, access a role-based dashboard that delivers real-time visibility and tracking of all payments including money in and money out.

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Industry Experience & Extensive Partner Network

Paymentus integrates with leading Church Management Software (ChMS) providers to allow your organization to modernize without replacing core systems. Paymentus makes it easy to make a change by offering comprehensive staff support, including training and resources, to help ease your transition and maximize your solution from the start.

Exceeding Client Expectations – Success Story

Modernizing one of North America’s largest faith-based financial services organizations.

Challenge
  • Legacy church plan payment solution impacted the ability to serve
  • Sought a solution that went beyond payment processing to include benefits and pension payments
  • Needed a holistic solution to streamline complexity in managing a large network of churches, dioceses, and institutions

Solution

Selected Paymentus to modernize the payment experiences across eight entities and the diverse user base of church administrators, diocese officials, and individual benefit and pension plan holders


Result
  • Paymentus solution delivered expanded payment options including ACH, debit, digital wallets, web and IVR channels, and one-time, future-dated, and recurring payments
  • Secure single sign-on (SSO) and rules-based payment workflows / approvals offers role-specific access and visibility for greater control and security
  • Real-time visibility into all transactions through digital dashboard
  • Added convenience through saved payment methods and wallet management

Accepted $2M+ in payments during first three months post go-live

Significant year-over-year digital payment volume increase

Transferred ~$50M of statements to cost-efficient emails

Faith-based organizations are supported by the Intelligent Payment Platform™ (IPP). See how the IPP offers modernized engagement, billing, and payments to make your bills worth more than ever before.

The Intelligent Payment Platform

Multimodal Interactions & Payments Hub

Omnichannel Billing & Payment Channels to Serve All

From walk-in to web, give consumers the power to access billing information and make payments through their preferred way with intelligent self-service. Reaching 100% of your consumership including online portals for registered users with shopping carts, quick pay one-time web options, IVR (phone) experiences, in-person at agency or retail locations, Account-to-Account (A2A) and Peer-to-Peer (P2P), as well as payments by text, email, chatbot, and the patented, fastest way to take a payment with BillWallet®.

Expert Delivery of Bills, Invoices & Communications

Provide awareness and full visibility to your customers of bill and invoice details while driving customers to receive bills digitally through our many presentment options including paper suppression, eBilling via email, text, and mobile, as well as online access to PDFs and document images, and full bill print and statement services of paper bills.

Comprehensive & Fully Integrated Payment Methods

Provide maximum payment optionality by offering credit card (AMEX, Visa, Mastercard, Discover), debit card, ACH/eCheck, cash at retail locations and in person, and popular digital wallets including PayPal, PayPal Credit, Venmo, Apple Pay, Google Pay, including our Instant Payment Network® (IPN).

Flexibility in Payment Frequency & Payment Plans

Increase payment adoption with intuitive AutoPay or recurring payments, one-time and scheduled one-time payments, and pay now/pay later. Provide financial flexibility and financing options with pre-arranged parameter-based payment plans and the ability to enable your customers options when affordability and specialized payment needs arise.

Streamlined Operations & Transparency

Intelligent Reporting, Reconciliation & Analytics

Gain complete visibility with comprehensive reporting and reconciliation through the state-of-the-art admin solution Agent Dashboard, offering real-time visibility for all transactions, regardless of payment method or channel. View agency analytics, monitor digital adoption and consumer behaviors, and review all facets of payment details in a single line of sight.

Agent-Assisted & Call Center
Solutions

Simplify payment options for customers requiring live agent and call center staff assistance by offering the patented Secure Service® for IVR, SMS, and email. Improve communication, visibility, and efficiency of all live-agent interactions including virtual terminal options.

Digital Payouts, Refunds &
Disbursements

Maximize consumer payouts and modernize the legacy physical check with fast and efficient digital payouts. Additionally, refunds, deposits, premiums, and many types of disbursements are delivered in a multichannel environment with diverse payment options for your customers.

Cash Management, Cashiering & Point-of-Service

Modernize and ease revenue collection for in-office transactions and data for the cash management of in-person payments for any payment type or payment method, all while maintaining seamless integration into your agency-wide systems of record, utilizing secure hardware devices from check scanning to card, and everything in between.

Adaptable Business Solutions for Maximum Flexibility

Cloud Commerce for a Better Digital Experience

The Paymentus PAY OS is a fully-hosted SaaS solution that provides modern user-interfaces and hosts all aspects of the billing and payment experience. Deploy billing and payment solutions anywhere, to be used by any device, and be paid with any payment method.

Integrations with 450+ systems of record and multiple deployment options allows choice and versatility to meet your business needs. From a true developer portal toolkit with APIs, SDKs and the Pixels by Paymentus toolkit, to our workflow and NCLC interactive application (iApp) engines, Paymentus makes integration, implementation, and deployments easy and proven.

Business Expense Management & Payable Tools

Help manage your businesses’ finances beyond customer transactions with the capability to invoice vendors, manage accounts payable (AP) and accounts receivable (AR), and control expenses—including issuing and monitoring employee expense cards.

Security, Compliance & Fraud
Prevention

As a Level 1 PCI-certified service provider, Paymentus reduces the compliance burdens for our customers with our fully hosted, cloud-based intelligent platform. From Nacha account validation and early warning systems to full HIPAA, SOC 1, SOC 2, and ADA compliance and protections, Paymentus has you covered with our fortress level safeguards, fraud prevention, and intrusion management security.

The Patented, Autonomous Billing & Payment AI Suite

Harness the power of Plaito, our AI platform purpose-built to power the future. The AI-powered core infrastructure enables rapid development, onboarding, and customization, with proprietary AI-powered capabilities delivering bill presentment, payment, personalization, and real-time analytics.

Paymentus Religious Organization FAQs

What needs of religious organizations does Paymentus fulfill?

  • Benefits & Insurance Payments
  • Payroll & HR Administration
  • Pension Payments
  • Donations

Does Paymentus focus solely on faith-based financial services organizations?

Paymentus serves organizations throughout the billing and payments landscape. We are the best-in-class electronic billing and payments provider of modern billing, payments, and engagement capabilities, backed by more than 20 years of dedicated experience. We currently serve 2,500+ clients throughout the U.S. and Canada, including several Fortune 500 organizations.

What type of payment methods does Paymentus offer faith-based financial services organizations?

Paymentus offers an expanded range of payment options that include traditional methods such as ACH/eCheck, and credit and debit cards, as well as modern options including PayPal, Venmo, Apple Pay, and Google Pay digital wallets.

Can Paymentus integrate its billing and payment solution with my current core systems?

Paymentus offers seamless integrations with leading Church Management Software (ChMS) providers. This ensures simple migrations from legacy providers, as well as the ability to work within a system that’s best for your organization.

Does Paymentus ensure compliance with PCI DSS, SOC 2, HIPAA, and Nacha?

The Paymentus solution is specifically designed to meet all rules and regulations regarding PCI, SOC 2, HIPAA, Nacha compliance, and state-specific requirements.