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Recurring donors are one of the most valuable cohorts that an organization can build. When an organization starts working with Engaging Networks, ensuring your recurring donors move into the platform smoothly is a top priority.

The process requires coordination between an Coordination between the organization’s existing payment gateway, the new payment gateway, and Engaging Networks . All parties should be engaged at the start of the process to ensure a seamless is essential. By ensuring that all parties are involved from the start, clients can facilitate a smooth migration. The basic process below can be followed in order to migrate recurring donors. Engaging Networks provides guidance on migrating donors from every payment provider.

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Migration Process Overview

  1. Identify You will identify recurring donors from your database of record and extract the donation details for their transactions from your existing payment gateway

  2. Request that You will have your existing payment gateway send the tokenized transaction data to your new payment gateway

  3. Your You will have your new payment gateway will provide you with updated tokenized transaction data.

  4. You will securely provide that tokenized transaction data to Engaging Networks in a set format that we will supply to you

  5. Engaging Networks imports them will import the transaction data to begin processing in Engaging Networks

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This migration is typically done as part of onboarding and is facilitated by the Engaging Networks Account Success Manager leading the project as well as the Client Support Specialist serving as the technical lead. Please contact your Account Success Manager or Engaging Networks Support for more detailed information and to start the process.

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titleWhat are the advantages to migrating recurring donors into Engaging Networks?
  • Migrating your recurring donors into Engaging Networks can allow for all transactions, both new and existing, to process in a single system.

  • Users can manage all recurring donations within Engaging Networks.

  • Supporters with recurring transactions processing in Engaging Networks can use the Supporter Hub to manage their own donations. They can update things such as donation amount, day of charge and also update the associated credit card. The Supporter Hub can also be used to upsell recurring donors.

  • Engaging Networks offers Marketing Automations to automatically notify supporters if the associated credit card processing their recurring transactions is due to expire, as well as when their donation fails.

  • Engaging Networks profile and query builder tools can be used to target recurring donors in email or SMS broadcast campaigns and also to show them conditional content on Engaging Networks pages.

  • Migrating can reduce the number of payment gateways your organization utilizes.

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titleCan we test some recurring donations before migrating all of them?

Yes, and it is required that a small number of recurring donations be migrated as a test before moving the entire file.

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