Batch Processing for Vantiv--Background

Vantiv allows Installment Payments and Recurring Gifts to be processed in batches. NetForum requires the following:

• Recurring Gifts must use auto-pay
• Recurring Gifts must have a gift date in the past.

When you move a payment installment into a batch for batch processing, NetForum does the following:

1. NetForum creates a Payment Batch Header record for each payment method
2. NetForum creates a Payment Batch Detail record for each payment added to a batch.
3. The Payment Batch Header record and the Payment Batch Detail record for each batch payment are sent to the Gateway for processing . And each record is saved to the NetForum database.
4. In NetForum, each Payment Batch Detail record is flagged with one of the following statuses:
   1. New: NetForum has not yet sent this record to the Gateway. This status may not appear in the interface.
   2. Processing:NetForum is still waiting for the Gateway to return a response file.
   3. Failed: The gateway failed to process this record.
   4. Succeeded:The gateway has processed this record and returned a response file.
5. When the Batch is finished processing, the Payment Batch Header record is flagged with a status of Closed.
6. NetForum closes a Payment Batch Header record only when every Payment Batch Detail record associated with it has a status of Failed or Succeeded.

   Note: NetForum does not close a Payment Batch Header record with Payment Batch Detail records that are still processing so that you can Resume Batch Processing if needed.