Online+Pledging

Online Pledging can enhance the pledge coordinators job of getting a more accurate count of pledges and if tied to a Church Management System (ChMS) can be part of a much more proactive view of the state of income to a church such as C3HUU. Online Pledging is a companion to Electronic Payments, both require handling of [|Sensitive Personal Information (SPI) also known as Personally Identifiable Information (PII)]. Recent laws regarding SPI require that all organizations that collect same treat that information confidentially. Both the Online Pledging functions and Electronic Payments collect SPI and so care must be taken that the infomration is protected.

The current primary method proposed to collect Online Pledging information for the C3HUU Annual Campaign involves use of the web tool [|Survey Monkey]. As noted in the Electronic Payments section of this Wiki, this web based tool is well suited where no SPI is collected. However, this tool may pose a problem when part of an Annual Fund or Capital Campaign. One way suggested was to anonymize the surveys using the "Member Number" from the current C3HUU ChMS, Logos II. In Logos II, each member has a unique number assigned to them which is kept private to the C3HUU site PCs. As long as each member responding ONLY uses the Logos II Member Number when filling out [|Survey Monkey,] this would seem to resolve the issue of collecting SPI.

Again, as with Electronic Payments, the ideal way to handle Online Pledging would be with a tool integrated with the Church Management System (ChMS). Some ChMSs do provide this Online Pledging integration with Electronic Payments, that is a long term goal to integate all into a ChMS at C3HUU.