iATS has approved CiviCRM development proposal

Submitted by karin on

It's official! iATS Payments has approved our proposal to fund development work to upgrade the current CiviCRM iATS plugin to the new iATS Webservice: ProcessLink standard. Alan Dixon and I are trying to find time to schedule to start work on this in July/August - aiming to have it completed in Fall. We are very excited that iATS is making a significant monetary contribution to develop a free open-source tool that non-profits all around can use to conduct their missions. In addition - and as part of the proposal - we've also asked iATS to assess a typical CiviCRM/iATS plug-in install for PCI compliance standards.

What does this mean for your organization?

if you're already using iATS on the Drupal side (Drupal Commerce): this new iATS plugin will let you hook up CiviCRM to your existing iATS account. You'll continue to process products/SKUs on the Drupal side, while you can start accepting doing Donations, Memberships, other payments on the CiviCRM side.

if you're already using iATS in CiviCRM: the new iATS plugin will let you process payments more reliably - esp. recurring contributions like Donations, or automated Membership payments - and will also able to process ACH/EFT payments: direct debit

if you're already doing payments in CiviCRM: but with another processor like eg PayPal Pro or Moneris: the new plugin will give you a choice to either stay with PayPal Pro or to switch to iATS. Either way - we'll be happy to support any choice you make here. There are Pros and Cons to any payment processor - and I'd be happy to discuss these with you to help determine what may work best for your organization.

if you're not already doing payments in CiviCRM: if your timeline allows it - then I suggest you wait until this new tool is in place - before you apply for either an account with iATS or with PayPal Pro or Moneris.