Payment Processing

Payment Processing explains how online checkout becomes available after your organization completes Giving Setup. Rates, accepted methods, and available actions are shown for the payment profile you are using. They are not the same for every organization.

Start with Giving Setup

A director for the main organization completes Giving Setup. That readiness can unlock donation pages, eligible event tickets, and eligible inventory card sales. Funds under that organization share the setup while keeping their own donation attribution. Each checkout still checks eligibility, permissions, inventory or tickets, and required gift accounts before a supporter can pay.

Rates, Methods, and Availability

Processing rates are determined by your organization’s approved payment profile and may include a percentage plus a fixed per-transaction amount. The applicable rate is shown during Giving Setup and checkout.

Checkout shows only the payment methods enabled for this session. Do not assume that a method, recurring schedule, or payment-management action is available because you saw it on another organization. Cash, checks, wires, stock gifts, and in-kind gifts stay in offline donation workflows.

Payment Lifecycle

After confirmation, AlignMint records the gift and continues the related accounting, receipt, and reporting work. Pending or retry states keep the same checkout from charging twice. If required gift accounts are missing, checkout stops before a charge. AlignMint does not pick or create those accounts for you.

Refunds and Recurring Billing

When Payment Management presents a refund action, it is limited to an eligible online gift and the full original amount. Recurring-payment actions, hosted tools, and scheduled cancellation appear only when shown or supported for that payment record. Do not rely on self-service pause, resume, amount, billing-day, or immediate-cancellation controls.

Settlement Evidence

Use Donation Settlement Report for read-only reconciliation evidence when exact provider payout and report details are available. Missing evidence is not replaced with estimated fees, payout values, or release controls.

Security

Card details are entered on a secure payment page, and AlignMint does not store full card numbers. AlignMint accepts payment success only from signed provider evidence. Follow the checkout instructions shown for your organization, and do not ask donors to send payment details by email.

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