Giving Help

​This is no problem at all. You’ll need to log in to your account and update your debit and credit card information as well as any account information you’ve added to your account for bank drafts.

You’d be amazed how simple making these types of adjustments are. You can log in anytime and edit any of your automated tithes, gifts, and offerings.

Simple – ASK FOR IT! If you need help setting something up, or have a question that isn’t answered here, just give email us at rpittman@fellowshipsj.org. Give us a call at 856-235-1697. We’ll get you the answers you need.

You sure can. You can set up either at your convenience. You can also set up a draft directly from your account, similar to any online bill-pay setups you currently have. Remember, we can’t see your account information, nor can we access your finances. This is only something you can do.

Yes, it’s simple to give a one-time gift very quickly. But if you want your giving to be included in a year-end giving statement, you’ll want to log in. But don’t worry, that’s easy too. There’s not even a password to remember.

There is a check box option for you to “cover the fees”. In order to accept online payments we use a payment processor that charges certain fees on each gift (this is standard practice). You are given the option to cover the fees so when you want to give $100, it actually costs $100 + the fees so that the church actually gets the $100 you intended. This is in no way obligatory, but many people choose to cover the fees so the church does not have to bear that cost. If you’re interested, the lowest fee way of giving to the church is via ACH bank transfer. That only costs $0.25 per transaction regardless of the amount.

For security reasons, our system defaults to having every individual’s giving separate. However, you can send an email to rpittman@fellowshpsj.org and we can join married couples’ giving together.

Checks are always entered into our giving system using the name printed on the check. There’s no envelope required.
Cash can only be included in your yearly giving if it is placed in your numbered giving envelope.

Plaid makes it easy to set up ACH transfers from any bank or credit union in the U.S. Once a user links their account via their banking credentials, Plaid retrieves their account and routing numbers. ACH payments can be set up in moments.

​We know many people are hesitant to enter online banking credentials anywhere outside a bank’s own site. We encourage this hesitation; it’s smart to learn more about the security of a platform before sharing financial details with it. Plaid is a secure, audited, and trusted system that has built partnerships with most major US-based financial institutions and thousands of credit unions across the country. Plaid is also a trusted provider for major financial apps and services, like Venmo, Robinhood, and Stripe. Put simply, banks are on the Plaid platform because banks trust Plaid.

Planning Center Giving (the application we’re using) never has direct access to anyone’s bank username or bank password. When our service prompts you for this information, you are actually interacting with a secure window into the Plaid system that pops up onto their screen. All credentials are securely encrypted between that pop up window and Plaid, using industry-standard end-to-end encryption.

You can still set up ACH giving with PNC bank. However, they do not currently support Instant Verification. That means you’ll need to use the manual verification process, which can take 3-5 days and you’ll need to follow the emailed instructions carefully. Feel free to reach out to rpittman@fellowshipsj.org for any assistance.