iMIS gateways FAQ

What can I do additionally with an AutoPay license?

  • Offering members or donors the choice of easy, automated payments.
  • Maximizing member and donor retention with automated renewals.
  • Enabling staff to discontinue automatic payments for members or donors at any time.
  • Using settings in the Staff site to set automatic payment options as off, opt-in, opt-out, always on or required.
  • Differentiating between automatic and non-automatic renewals so your members are billed accurately.
  • Staff manually adding members to the automatic membership renewal program.
  • Staff previewing membership fees or donations to be collected, and submit for collection.
  • Securely storing credit card details in a PCI-compliant manner.

See Automatic Payments for more information.

iATS

iMIS’s implementation with iATS only enables ACH payments when they are recurring for membership and fundraising which requires the iMIS AutoPay license. iMIS does not have the ability to have one-off ACH payments with iATS in the cart, yet.  There are plans to add this functionality. iMIS does process credit card payments for both recurring and one-off using iATS.

Types of transactions

The following table details the type of transactions each gateway can perform with and without an AutoPay license:

AutoPay Type of transaction iATS PayPal (Payflow Pro) Vantiv/WorldPay (licensed) SecurePay
With AutoPay Recurring credit card Yes *Not valid in UK* Yes Yes Yes
Recurring ACH/Direct Debit Yes *Not valid in UK* No Yes No
Single ACH/Direct Debit No No Yes No
Without AutoPay Single credit card Yes Yes Yes Yes
Single ACH/Direct Debit No No No No