Please note that product releases are scheduled as followed by environment:
Canadian = Monday evening | Australian = Tuesday morning | U.S. = Tuesday evening |
Beta Template Editor / New Email Editor = Monday Morning

Product Functionality

Beta Template Editor / New Email Editor

• Improved experience while dragging or rearranging components within in email. Controls are less sensitive and do a better job to snapping above or below existing elements.
• The social media element now supports more sites. Bold items are new.
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn
  • Google+
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest
  • Youtube
  • Snapchat
  • Flickr
  • Vimeo

eCommerce:  Pay with PayPal is a new merchant option for all commerce forms.

75% of consumers want to pay faster! Which is why we are thrilled to announce our new eCommerce partner, PayPal.  Aiming to arm clients with more modern ways of payments for their constituents, PayPal offers One-Touch (aka One-Click Gifts) and recurring/perpetual transactions to be facilitated.  In addition, Venmo will also be supported as a payment method through the PayPal flow for one-time gifts.  PayPal can be configured as a primary or secondary gateway on your commerce forms. Set as a secondary means you can continue to use your primary gateway in conjunction with offering PayPal and your constituents can choose their preferred payment method when making a gift. 

How do you get started?​

PayPal is a new gateway option that can be configured as a secondary gateway for donations. In order to do so you must have a merchant account your organization has already established at:​

https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/express-checkout  ​

Do we also need to have a Venmo account in order to support Venmo payments?​

Your organization will not need a Venmo account in order to accept payment as a wallet option with Venmo through PayPal.  More about this can be found here:  ​

https://www.paypal.com/us/smarthelp/article/venmo-payments-faq3445

How do I get access to have PayPal enabled on my site?

At this time we are enabling PayPal on a site by site basis.  Look forward to a future release where this will be made available for all sites and all commerce forms. 

If your organization is interested in exploring PayPal more, please contact your account rep.

If you are ready to turn on in your site, please contact App Support.

Where can I set up my PayPal account?
Once enable in your site, the PayPal gateway account can be setup and accessed via in the Accounts tab of the Manage Payment Gateway's page in Encompass.

PayPal will provide Payer ID, Client ID and Secret which will be used in the setup in Manage Payment Gateways -> Accounts.

Where do I get the required config for setting up my merchant account?

• PayPal Merchant ID (Merchant ID)
  • Log in to your Merchant Account at https://www.paypal.com
  • Click on the cog wheel → Profile and settings → Look for Merchant account ID under the About the business section
• PayPal Client ID (User) & PayPal Client Secret (Password)
  • Go to https://developer.paypal.com/, click on the upper right icon with your name and access Dashboard → My Apps & Credentials → scroll down to REST API apps and click Create App
  • When creating the app, you can name it whatever you'd like.  If the Sandbox account is not prepopulated then back out and go back into Create App.  Sometimes it can take a while to update.
  • Once you've created the app you will see the Client and the Secret.  These are the values you use in the merchant config (along with the merchant account id from above). 
  • Make sure to change the option in the top right from Sandbox to Live before downloading your credentials.

Which Admins will have access to set up the merchant account?

Payment Gateway Admin

Can this be used to replace PayPal buttons we have on content pages on our site?

No, this is not supported at this time.

Will PayPal support scheduled and perpetual gifts?

This uses a slightly different API (reference transactions) that allows iModules to bill the constituent's PayPal account on a recurring basis after the initial transaction.  

The billing agreement is outlined for constituent to review before approving the transaction.

Billing Agreement token format:

• ScheduledPayment = "[Today's Payment] now and [Recurring Amount] [Recurring Frequency] for [Count of Remaining Payments] payments totaling [Total Donation]"

• Perpetual = "[Today's Payment] now and [Recurring Amount] [Recurring Frequency]"

• Optional Suffix will be appended to the end of the above text strings if a commerce item was selected in the form = "(plus [Total of Commerce Items] now)"

Where can I update the default email body for PayPal messages?

Updating on form by form basis will still be supported.

If you would like to change what has been defaulted, Support can update  global verbiage tokens:

[RecurringBillingFailedChargeNotificationPayPal_EmailBody]  will update PayPal failure message for all forms in all GIDs
[RecurringBillingUpcomingChargeReminderPayPal_EmailBody] will update PayPal upcoming charge reminder message for all forms in all GIDs


How will we know which transactions in the reconciliation file were done via PayPal versus our Primary Gateway?

Authorization Code found in reporting will start with PAY. For reconciling transactions, you will use PayPal Transaction ID AND Customer Trans Number.

PLEASE NOTE - With PayPal enabled for your site, a new column (Merchant Account Name) is added to the left of Authorization Code. This will introduce a potential breaking change for the Giving Transaction Export and the Event Reconciliation with Adjustments Export.

Will billing information will pass back from PayPal?

Billing information will automatically write to reporting and display on the finish page/confirmation email for the owner of the merchant account (i.e. Purdue Alumni Association) needs to contact their rep at PayPal and ask to have that feature enabled on their merchant account.  This in turn would present a message to the donor when checking out confirming that PayPal is authorized to send their billing information back to the requester.    

How can constituents set up "Pay with Venmo" to work with PayPal?

Please keep in mind that in order to see the option to pay with Venmo, you will need to have Venmo currently installed on your phone, be checking out with an eligible PayPal merchant, and not have configured PayPal OneTouch. 

To opt in and purchase with Venmo, tap on the ☰ icon in the upper left corner of the app, then tap on Settings. In Settings, there’s the Buying section. To use Venmo to pay during checkout, tap Enable Mobile Web Purchase’ or Connect Browsers.

On November 14, 2017 we updated our protocol communication standards upgraded to TLS 1.2

Transport Layer Security (TLS) is a cryptography protocol that ensures private, secure communications over an internet browser connection.  Beginning June 17, 2018, iModules will no longer accept WEB and API connections using TLS 1.0 protocol.  Click here for more information regarding this update.

Issue Resolution

• ENC-32715 ensures all opt-outs are correctly identified as either category specific or community opt outs within email marketing reporting.

Web Accessibility

• ENC-31907 Categories on forms now appropriately announce their state to screen reader users and are keyboard accessible
• ENC-31650 The Download as PDF image to download an event's attendee list now has appropriate alternative text
• ENC-31643 The attendee list search field now has a label appropriately associated to it
• ENC-31906 Collapsable designation groups within the designations popup now appropriately communicate their state as expanded or collapsed to screen reader users
• ENC-31105 The side navigation on the Profile view is now keyboard accessible
• ENC-31649 The attendee list no longer has hidden empty headers that can cause confusion to screen reader users
• ENC-32596 The title of the designations popup modal is now an header 2 instead of a header 1
• ENC-31097 The Profile Image Upload field now has an associate label for screen readers