AffiniPay for Associations started with a singular goal: to create a simple, secure online payment solution that association professionals love.

The company’s proprietary payment technology was developed specifically to meet the needs of professional societies, nonprofits, associations, and association management companies. Not only does their solution work seamlessly with the tools you use every day, it exceeds all standard security requirements, ensuring your association and your members are protected.

Seamless technology combined with smile-inducing support

AffiniPay is the only digital payment solution tailored to professionals. They’ve combined unbeatable customer service with advanced technologies such as online payment processing of credit, debit, and eChecks, flexibility for clients to pay over time, as well as state-of-the-art fraud protection and security. They do all this so every professional can spend more time pursuing their passion.

The AffiniPay for Associations Difference

Some online payment solutions providers pride themselves on offering a one-size-fits-all platform. At AffiniPay for Associations, however, the mission from day one has been specifically to support associations. That’s why it’s in their name.

15+ Years of Experience: The company has served the associations community for nearly two decades, and their solution was developed specifically to support your unique needs.

Live Voices: AffiniPay doesn’t use call centers or automated systems. Get your questions answered by one of their Certified Payments Professionals every time.

Straightforward Pricing: Enjoy transparent pricing with competitive rates and no setup fees, long-term contracts, or cancellation charges.

Secure Mobile Payments: AffiniPay’s mobile app + Bluetooth swiper, custom QR codes, and mobile-friendly payment pages allow you to securely accept payments from anywhere.

Streamlined Reconciliation: Take advantage of custom data fields to simplify transaction tracking for easier reconciliation and reporting.

Flexible User Management: The company’s flexible user management tools make it easy for the account admin to edit, add, and delete users as well as to control access to specific features and accounts.

No-charge PCI Compliance: AffiniPay’s PCI Level 1 technology helps lower your PCI liability. Plus, they provide comprehensive assistance to help you become and remain PCI compliant.

Reliable Technology:  committed to maintaining consistently high uptime so even when your traffic spikes during dues season, event registrations, or fundraising drives, your payment system will be operational.

Innovative Solutions: From hosted fields and payment pages to tokenization libraries and direct integrations, AffiniPay’s solutions are designed to help you accept payments in the most secure way.

Dedicated Associations Team: Other payment providers distribute the onboarding process among multiple teams in various departments, which can lead to miscommunications and delays. With AffiniPay’s proven process, you have a dedicated association team that stays with you every step of the way. The organization provides initial implementation support along with ongoing assistance to ensure a successful, long-term partnership.

End-to-End FinTech Solution: AffiniPay helps you simplify your payment processing by providing an end-to-end solution that acts as both your merchant account and a secure payment gateway.

Combining both functions into one proprietary solution means you can rely on the firm as your single point of contact for all payment-related questions and utilize technology built to grow with your association.

Superior Data Security: AffiniPay’s solution exceeds standards for internet security and PCI Level 1 compliance to guarantee safe data storage and ensure every transaction is secure from start to finish.

Advanced Fraud Prevention: The company’s in-house underwriting, risk, and fraud prevention teams and secure technology protect your organization from bad actors.

Flexible Tokenization: Tokenize and save payment details on AffiniPay’s secure servers to utilize recurring billing without data storage risks.

Hosted Fields: By using AffiniPay’s hosted fields, you can prevent cybercriminals from scraping member credit card data from your site.

Powerful Data Protection: All payment data is immediately encrypted upon entry and their solution undergoes regular scans and external security audits.

Online reporting tools to streamline reconciliation

Get full visibility into your organization’s financial health and simplify your reconciliation with the company’s robust yet user-friendly online reporting tools.

AffiniPay’s customizable reports and dashboards offer on-demand access to real-time payment statistics and important business metrics that can help you better manage your organization's finances and more accurately forecast future cash flow. Plus, their system is designed specifically to make both reconciliation and audit preparation easier and more efficient.

Advance your platform with AffiniPay’s technology

Using AffiniPay’s hosted fields and APIs, you’ll enable entrepreneurs on your platform to process online payments, save payment details for future use, and send invoices. Most importantly, all end-user data stays safe throughout the entire process with advanced end-to-end encryption and tokenization.

Powering payments for the legal industry

For more than a decade, LawPay’s online payment technology has been trusted to help law firms get paid easier, more securely, and 39% faster. More importantly, LawPay ensures your firm accepts payments in compliance with ABA and IOLTA guidelines.

Everything you need to simplify payments

From accepting membership dues to event registrations, donations, and more, AffiniPay knows that your association has a lot of moving parts. The good news is that however you run your organization, they can work with you! They work with all the different tools you use and connect member payments all in one place. Accept payments, run custom reports, and more with AffiniPay’s easy-to-use, yet robust, functionality.

“Since our very first day, AffiniPay has partnered with associations and nonprofits to provide a simple, secure, and streamlined way to accept member payments.”

Reporting and Reconciliation

View valuable financial data, create custom reports, and streamline reconciliation: AffiniPay gives associations, nonprofits, and professional societies everything they need to track transaction activity, prepare for audits, and simplify reconciliation—all in one place.

The organization’s flexible online reporting tools empower you to organize and analyze payment information in the way that best supports your reporting needs.

• Utilize unlimited custom data fields to automate reconciliation and include details like GL code or member name/ID with each transaction
• Quickly generate detailed reports for board members and auditors using custom tags or export data to create more complex reports
• Receive full daily deposits of funds, with all processing fees debited at once the following month to make reconciliation clean and straightforward

End-to-end payment processing to reduce your PCI scope

AffiniPay’s end-to-end payment processing technology was designed with data protection in mind. They utilize advanced fraud prevention, powerful data encryption methods, and robust cybersecurity measures to ensure private information is safe, and their solution exceeds standards for internet security and PCI Level 1 compliance.

Plus, choosing AffiniPay as your payment processor means you never have to store sensitive payment details again, decreasing your security obligations and, in turn, reducing your PCI scope.

Data Security

Rest assured that your data is protected by sophisticated safeguards

With AffiniPay’s end-to-end payment processing solution, every transaction is secure from start to finish. All payment data is immediately encrypted to protect it during transit.

The company also utilizes tokenization to safely save payment details on their secure servers, allowing you to use recurring billing without having to store sensitive information.

• The organization’s technology undergoes quarterly scans in addition to an annual audit from a qualified security assessor
• Easy-to-use user management tools allow you to limit access to specific payment and reporting features based on role
• Payment receipts can be personalized with your logo and custom fields and sent to multiple users or a group alias

PCI Compliance

Enhance cardholder data security in your organization and reduce your PCI scope: Not only is AffiniPay PCI Level 1 compliant (the highest level available), they also provide comprehensive assistance to help your organization become and remain PCI compliant—all at no extra cost.

Their payment technology can even help you lower your security responsibilities to reduce your PCI scope.

• Expert guidance throughout the process along with videos and resources to help you achieve and maintain PCI compliance
• Automatic notifications when your initial assessment is due as well as yearly reminders for renewals
• Live security and compliance support from AffiniPay’s in-house team of Certified Payments Professionals via phone or email

Hosted Fields

Offer visitors to your site a seamless, secure checkout experience: Using AffiniPay’s APIs, you can add hosted fields to your online checkout. Hosted fields look like any other text field on your site and replace fields that collect sensitive payment information, such as card numbers.

Any data captured by a hosted field is encrypted and sent directly to AffiniPay’s secure servers.

• Protect your visitors’ private information and allow them to check out on your site without redirecting them to a third party
• Make your online checkout more secure while preserving your organization’s branding for a consistent experience
• Outsource the handling of cardholder data to reduce PCI scope, eliminate quarterly scanning, and maintain eligibility for PCI Self-Assessment Questionnaire (SAQ) A

Electronic Signatures

Confirm payment authorization in writing—even for online payments: AffiniPay allows you to easily collect electronic signatures on credit card payment receipts in person, online, and via AffiniPay’s mobile app.

Increase payment security for your largest transactions by capturing signatures in person with a mobile device touchscreen or a mouse, or requesting signatures via email.

Payment solutions for associations, nonprofits, AMCs, and more

Unlike generic payment solutions, AffiniPay for Associations was built specifically to support the unique needs of associations, professional societies, nonprofits, and association management companies.

Their user-friendly, web-based software makes it easy to securely accept payments from anywhere, and their team is committed to ensuring you and your staff are supported at all times. With AffiniPay, you can simplify reporting, reduce your PCI scope, and generate valuable cost savings—all while improving cash flow.

State, Local, and Specialty Bars

After serving the legal industry for more than a decade, the company has a deep understanding of what bar associations need.

That means whether your membership is in the dozens or the thousands, AffiniPay’s online payment solutions will make it easier for you to support legal professionals.

• Offer members, staff, and stakeholders a seamless payment experience
• Simplify your billing by consolidating multiple processes into a single solution
• Protect sensitive data with powerful data encryption and cybersecurity measures

CPA Societies

AffiniPay knows that cybersecurity is an ongoing concern for financial professionals: When you accept payments using AffiniPay’s online payment solutions, you’ll be using PCI Level 1 compliant online payment processing technology that utilizes advanced security methods like end-to-end encryption to keep sensitive data safe.

• Securely store sensitive payment details in AffiniPay’s proprietary vault
• Accept payments directly on your website with a secure, customizable payment page
• Improve data and network security with AffiniPay’s free PCI compliance program

Meet the CEO

Dru Armstrong is the CEO, bringing over 17 years of experience in consumer and product technology development and management. She is a proven high growth leader with a history of creating strong customer experiences while fueling technology growth and market expansions. Armstrong leads with innovation, diversity and inclusion, and verticalized software.

“We work with all the different tools you use and connect member payments all in one place. Accept payments, run custom reports, and more with AffiniPay’s easy-to-use, yet robust, functionality.”