How Roster works
With Roster, your platform can offer churches a way to receive recurring gifts from a donor’s paycheck. The donor starts in your product, then follows the giving steps hosted by Roster and authorizes the recurring gift.
Your platform introduces the giving option, tells Roster which church the donor chose, and keeps your own records up to date. Roster handles the giving steps and sends your software updates about the recurring gift and its donations. The bank moves the money, following instructions from Roster and reporting what happened.
A recurring gift is the arrangement to keep giving. Each payment under that arrangement is a donation. One recurring gift can produce many donations over time.
When the arrangement becomes active, the donor is set up to give. Money may arrive later. Your records should distinguish a deposit received, a transfer the bank has accepted, and confirmation that money reached its destination.