The Hearts Fund Drive is going great, BUT........

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10. They are all being manually assigned at the moment

The reason we have not introduced a new payment system since we integrated PayPal 20 years ago is because getting it to work in an automated fashion -- where the payment page knows your DU username, and then once you pay, it updates your Star Membership automatically -- is, frankly, a big pain in the butt.

But I know that DUers have been asking for an alternative online payment method for ages, and so this is my stopgap solution -- a payment page that works, but where the Star Memberships/hearts are not assigned automatically. That's why there's going to be a bit of a delay -- once I get a notification email of a payment, I have to go in and update the Star Membership manually. Unfortunately the delay will be longer when I'm not in front of my computer.

That's why this is really just a test of the system -- I also have to integrate it into DU's accounting, so this is actually a pretty useful trial run to make sure all is working as it should on the back end. If this is a success, and people like using it, then we will work on getting it automated, so Star Memberships update immediately and I won't have to assign them manually.

Thanks!