{"id":15767,"date":"2019-10-24T13:25:17","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T17:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qgiv.com\/blog\/?post_type=customers&#038;p=15767"},"modified":"2023-03-02T16:37:32","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T21:37:32","slug":"the-academy-for-lifelong-learning","status":"publish","type":"customers","link":"https:\/\/www.qgiv.com\/blog\/customers\/the-academy-for-lifelong-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"The Academy for Lifelong Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Academy for Lifelong Learning Saves Time and Increases Security by Using Qgiv to Encourage Members to Pay Online via Credit Card<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-qgiv-orange-color has-text-color\">CHALLENGES<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"orgeon\">All of The Academy for Lifelong Learning\u2019s membership dues and payments were being sent in by mail in the form of checks or hand-written credit card information. Once-a-week trips to the post office box (sometimes twice each week during busy months) to collect checks and credit card information, visiting the bank to deposit checks, and entering card information by hand via the bank\u2019s gateway just wasn\u2019t cutting it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-qgiv-orange-color has-text-color\">HOW WE HELPED<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ALL set up a Qgiv form so transactions could be completed quickly, securely, and easily online instead of requiring registrants and donors to send in a check or their credit card information via mail. During the fiscal year prior to setting up the form, credit card transactions accounted for 14.7% of the total number of transactions coming into the organization. During the 2014-2015 fiscal year, 326 payments were made by check and 56 payments were made by credit card.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-qgiv-orange-color has-text-color\">RESULTS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the first fiscal year using the online capability, 62% of their transactions were made using a credit card. After just two months of having the form in place, they had 75 credit card transactions\u2014an increase of 34% over the entire previous year. The total number of credit card transactions for the fiscal year was 310.7% higher than the entire previous year, jumping to 230 transactions! Check transactions dropped to 141.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Academy for Lifelong Learning Saves Time and Increases Security by Using Qgiv to Encourage Members to Pay Online via Credit Card<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15776,"template":"","meta":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Academy for Lifelong Learning - Fundraising Blog for Nonprofit, Educational, and Faith-Based Organizations<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.qgiv.com\/blog\/customers\/the-academy-for-lifelong-learning\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Academy for Lifelong Learning - Fundraising Blog for Nonprofit, Educational, and Faith-Based Organizations\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Academy for Lifelong Learning Saves Time and Increases Security by Using Qgiv to Encourage Members to Pay Online via Credit Card\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.qgiv.com\/blog\/customers\/the-academy-for-lifelong-learning\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Fundraising Blog for Nonprofit, Educational, and Faith-Based Organizations\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-03-02T21:37:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.qgiv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/logo-academy-for-lifelong-learning.gif\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"179\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/gif\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.qgiv.com\/blog\/customers\/the-academy-for-lifelong-learning\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.qgiv.com\/blog\/customers\/the-academy-for-lifelong-learning\/\",\"name\":\"The Academy for Lifelong Learning - 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