What is Automated Giving? An alternate means of support for St. Ephraim. The ParishPay program will collect monthly contributions from your checking, savings, or credit card account (Visa, MasterCard, American Express or Discover).
It costs nothing to sign up and allows you the flexibility to manage your parish support after thoughtful prayer and discernment from a monthly budget perspective, truly giving your first fruits after careful thought.
What are the benefits to our parish? It provides a more consistent stream of income that will help us do a better job of forecasting and budgeting.
What are the benefits to you? Allows you to plan your giving, in the same way you budget your other financial commitments.
You no longer have to be concerned about catching-up missed offerings when you miss liturgy because you are out of town, on vacation, ill, etc.
You can easily adjust the amount of your automated contribution (up or down) through the Treasurer or do it yourself via a secure website access.
You no longer need to write a check every week.
How are donations credited to you? A monthly file is received from ParishPay and transferred into our parish financial system.
Your donations are credited to your account just as they have been.
With ParishPay, however, this process is automated, eliminating the need to count monies, make deposits and credit parishioner accounts. The process is greatly streamlined and facilitates end of year reporting.
How secure is ParishPay?ParishPay website and electronic transfers utilizes 128-bit encryption, the same encryption and security measures used by the Federal government and are at least as strong as most U.S. banks. In addition you receive an email notice anytime a change is made to your account data.
To try it just enroll in ParishPay.It’s easy to sign up. Forms will be available in the Narthex. Just fill out the form and drop it in the collection basket.
Or enroll online. click HERE to go directly to Parish Pay