Registration Payment Plans (RPPs) for Memberships have many similar features to the Recurring Subscription feature, which was the auto-pay solution through Authorize.net for your membership subscriptions. However, RPPs for Memberships have several additional advantages for our clients because they are created within the MyRec.com system, see Registration Payment Plans for Memberships.
Similar Functions to Recurring Subscriptions
For departments who have been using Recurring Subscriptions, this Quick Reference resource will help you use similar functions in RPPs for Memberships.
Auto-Pay/Recurring Subscriptions
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RPPs for Memberships
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| Updates to fees are done from the membership length page (update recurring fees) | Updates to fees are done from the membership info page after clicking the length (view payment plans link) |
| Create the subscription option on the membership length from the dropdown | Create the payment plan option on the membership length from the same dropdown |
| Offer a copy of the membership length for customers who don't want to pay via subscription | Offer a copy of the membership length for customers who don't want to pay via RPP |
| If the credit card payment is declined once, the subscription will be closed and the recurring payments will stop. This will also expire the membership. If this happens, a new membership will need to be purchased if the member wishes to continue | If the credit card payment is declined once, the RPP for Membership will pause after a decline, and the membership itself will pause. A public-side user or management-side user can Update the Payment Method. Then, management will unpause both the RPP and the membership. |
| Recurring subscription payments display only the next, upcoming payment | RPPs for Memberships display the next 10 payments on the View Payment Plan screen |
| Changes made to the membership fees will not affect current, existing subscriptions | Changes made to the membership fees will not affect current, existing RPPs for Memberships |
| In the Main or Registrations tab of an account, you can click into a subscription for the purposes of cancelling it, seeing the payments that have occurred so far, checking the subscription's status with Authorize.net, or updating the credit card | In the Main tab of an account, you can click the View Payment Plans link on the top right then the Plan # for the purposes of pausing, cancelling, seeing the payments that have occurred so far, checking the subscription's status with Authorize.net, updating the credit card, and viewing the edit history |
| You can use the Payment Subscription report to see if there are any credit cards being used in recurring payments that have expired or are about to expire | The Expiring Cards link in the Needs Attention box on the management homepage will show up when there are cards about to expire |
| There is a Subscription Report under the Authorize.net Reports section in the Financial Reports area for subscription details on attempted payments | There is a Payment Plans report under Financial reports where you will click the View Payments link to view all attempted payments |