How to enable eCatholic integrations

Connecting your ChMS to your other eCatholic products is a fantastic way to get the most out of the eCatholic integrations available to you. With the right setup in the ChMS, you can streamline things for your parish and use the tools you already have. In the ChMS, you can set up two different integrations, depending on which eCatholic products your parish is using.

• eCatholic Website – this helps connect online family and religious education registrations, along with online giving that’s submitted through your eCatholic website. You’ll just need the Integration Key from your eCatholic website, and you’ll be on your way.
• eCatholic Payments – this imports contributions from eCatholic Payments, which is especially helpful if you access your Payments portal at app.ecatholic.com/pay. If that’s what you’re using, you’ll need your Merchant ID so we can link things up correctly.

Set up the eCatholic Website integration

1. Log into an Admin User account on the eCatholic website that you would like to connect to your ChMS.

2. Navigate to your Integration & Social tab by clicking Admin > Settings > Integration & Social.

   

3. Toggle the eCatholic ChMS Integration switch to On, then click the green Save/Publish button at the bottom of the screen.

   1. Once your page refreshes, a new Integration Key will appear.

      

4. Click the Copy button to copy your Integration Key to your clipboard.

   

5. Log into your ChMS database that you would like to connect.
6. Select Admin in the top menu, then click Church.

7. Scroll down to the eCatholic Integration section.

   

8. In the eCatholic Website row, click Create.

9. In the Set up eCatholic Website window, paste in the Integration Key you copied from your eCatholic website.

   

10. Click Save.

Note:

When you turn on the integration, the default will be that your eCatholic Payment transactions are sent to the ChMS. If you’re not ready for that just yet, you can easily toggle OFF the switch that says Send your payment transactions to eCatholic ChMS back in your Admin > Settings > Integration & Social area of your eCatholic website.

You might toggle this OFF if you have multiple parishes share one website but have multiple ChMS databases.

Set up the eCatholic Payments integration

This integration is only needed if you access your Payments portal at app.ecatholic.com/pay.

1. Log into your eCatholic Payments portal at app.ecatholic.com/pay.
   1. Your Merchant ID appears in your browser's address bar, right after /pay/. It always begins with mer_ .
2. Copy only the Merchant ID, starting with mer_.

   1. Don't include the rest of the web address.

      

3. Log into your ChMS database that you would like to connect.
4. Select Admin in the top menu, then click Church.
5. Scroll down to the eCatholic Integration section.
6. In the eCatholic Payments row, click Create.
7. In the Set up eCatholic Payments window, paste in your Merchant ID.

8. Press Save.

   

You are now ready to use the currently available eCatholic integrations! To learn how contributions are imported, see eCatholic Payments Integration.