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Membership Fees

← Nonprofit Organization Best Practices

As a nonprofit organization, you promote a particular (social) cause. Doing so, you focus on your objective, not on making money. But you need to bring some income to be able to do your work.

A common way of raising money are donations, as outlined in One-Time Donations, Recurring Donations With Nonprofit Cloud or One-Time and Recurring Donations With Nonprofit Cloud. However, your organization can also raise funds through membership fees.

Solution Outline

See organization memberships as a contractual agreement that is subject to billing on a regular basis. To implement this scenario, you combine the billing and invoicing capabilities of JustOn Billing & Invoice Management and the payment functionality of JustOn Cash Management.

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(1) A person applies for a membership via your website or organization portal.

(2) Your website or portal triggers JustOn Billing & Invoice Management to create a subscription record, which holds the billing relevant data.

(3) Based on the subscriptions, JustOn Billing & Invoice Management executes the invoice run to create invoices.

(4) Finalizing the invoices triggers the creation of entry records in JustOn Cash Management.

(5) Based on these entries, your org can either publish the payment page or create direct debit orders.

(6) Then have the new member make the payment via the payment page or send the direct debit orders to your bank – collecting the money yourself.

Setup Overview

Setting up the solution as outlined above involves, consequently, at least the following steps:

  1. Set up JustOn Billing & Invoice Management and JustOn Cash Management.

    For details, see Installing JustOn Billing & Invoice Management and Setting Up JustOn Cash Management.

  2. Configure the JustOn Billing & Invoice Management-JustOn Cash Management integration.

    For details, see Enabling Billing & Invoice Management/Cash Management Integration.

  3. Build an API integration, connecting the website or portal with JustOn Billing & Invoice Management to create subscriptions.

    For details, see Subscription Build Web Service.

  4. Configure the invoice run.

    For details, see Setting Up Invoice Creation.

  5. Configure the payment solution.

    1. Configure the payment provider integration in JustOn Cash Management.

      For details, see Integrating Payment Provider.

      Generally, the payment page of JustOn Cash Management leverages all payment methods that you have enabled as part of your account setup with the payment service provider.

    2. Configure the payment page.

      For details, see Configuring Payment Page.

    3. For recurring donations, set up the payment run.

      For details, see Configuring PSP Payment Run.

    1. Initialize JustOn Cash Management for the operation with banks.

      For details, see Initializing Banking Operations.

    2. For recurring donations, set up the payment run.

      For details, see Configuring SEPA Payment Run.