Financial Page

Parent Dashboard: Financial Page Overview

From the Financial tab, families can view their balance, download statements/invoices, submit payments, and manage their payment methods and invoice preferences.

Note: Your camp’s Financial: Parent Dashboard settings control exactly what parents can see/do from the Financial tab. To learn more about configuring these settings, click here.

Financial Tab

To access the Financial tab, click the Financial link in the left sidebar menu.

Financial Dashboard Homepage Message

At the very top of the Financial tab, parents will see your custom Parent Dashboard homepage message, as outlined in the screenshot above.

Customize your camp's financial homepage message by going to Admin > Campers > Financial: Parent Dashboard > Parent financial dashboard home page message. To learn more, click here.

Beneath the homepage message are the following sections:

Financial Summary

Payment Schedules

Payment Methods and Invoice Preferences

Parent Dashboard: View Balances & Make Payments

Families can view balances, download statements, and make payments from the "Financial Summary" section of the Financial tab.

Note: Your camp's Financial: Parent Dashboard settings control whether or not families can see their statements or make payments from this page. To learn more about how to control these settings, click here.

To see an overview of the entire Financial tab of the Parent Dashboard, click here.

Financial Tab

To access the Financial tab, click the Financial link in the left sidebar menu.

Financial Summary

Scroll to the Financial Summary section. Here, parents will see a financial summary for every year they've ever enrolled for camp.

For each year, they can:

Payment Schedule Balances & Statements

If the family is on a payment schedule, they'll be presented the name(s) and balance(s) of each schedule for the corresponding enrollment year. They can also download a statement per schedule by clicking "View statement."

Tip: If a family is seeing a different balance than the "current balance" that admins see on the family's profile page, it's because certain transactions haven't been placed on the family's payment schedule. Admins can fix this by editing the 'payment schedule' setting in the transaction details. To learn more, click here.

Yearly Statements

Using the grey "Statement" button on the right, families can download a statement that includes all transactions for the corresponding enrollment year.

Make a Payment

Using the green "Make a Payment" button on the far right, families can submit an electronic payment towards their balance for the corresponding enrollment year.

  1. Select an existing payment methods on file.
    - To use a new payment method, families must add the payment method first via the "Payment Methods" section of the Financial tab.
  2. If the family's on a payment schedule, select which schedule to pay towards.
  3. Enter the amount to pay.

Note: Each payment schedule will list an "Amount due." This amount reflects how much the family has been invoiced for and the amount they still need to pay towards those invoices.

For example, in the screenshot above, the Paulson family has a total balance of $1580 for the Camp Firewood Bi-Monthly schedule, but they've only been invoiced for $790 so far, hence why it shows $790 due.

Payment Approved

If a payment is successful, the family will be presented the payment confirmation message that your camp has created. To customize this message, go to your Financial: Parent Dashboard settings. To learn more, click here.

If you've also configured your Financial: Communication settings so that families receive a confirmation email when a payment is approved, an email will also be sent at this time, to the billing email address listed for the payment method that was used. To learn more about how to customize these settings, click here.

Admin users can also enable email notifications (from their user settings) each time a payment is made successfully on the Parent Dashboard.

Approved payments will appear on the family's account immediately. Typically, your payment gateway takes 1-2 business days to process the payment.

Payment Declined

If a payment is declined, the family will be presented an error message in the top right section of their screen, explaining the reason why. The payment will need to be posted again (whether by the parent or your camp's admin team).

If you've configured your Financial: Communication settings so that families receive an email when a payment is declined, an email will also be sent at this time, to the billing email address listed for the payment method that was used. To learn more, click here.

Admin users can also enable email notifications (from their user settings) each time a payment is declined.

Parent Dashboard: Payment Schedule Invoices

Families can view their payment schedule dates and download generated invoices from the "Payment Schedules" section of the Financial tab.

Note: Your camp's Financial: Parent Dashboard settings control whether or not families can view their payment schedule and download invoices from this page. To learn more about how to control these settings, click here.

To see an overview of the entire Financial tab of the Parent Dashboard, click here.

Financial Tab

To access the Financial tab, click the Financial link in the left sidebar menu.

Payment Schedules

Scroll to the Payment Schedules section. Here, parents will see a list of all the payment dates for each payment schedule that they're on.

In the example above, the family is on 2 payment schedules currently - a "Monthly" schedule from the 2021 "Afterschool Fall" payment schedule group, and a "Bi-Monthly" schedule from the 2021 "Camp Firewood" payment schedule group.

For each payment schedule, parents are presented:

  1. The invoice date*
  2. The invoice status
    Scheduled = an admin hasn't generated it yet.
    Generated** = an admin has generated it. Click to download a copy.
  3. Whether the family is set up for auto pay for the invoice.
  4. The amount of the invoice (for generated invoices)
  5. The amount paid (for generated invoices)
  6. The current amount due (for generated invoices)
    The 'amount due' will take into consideration any payment already made (like for the February 1st invoice in the screenshot above).
  7. The total amount due for all generated invoices

Important notes:

  • Parents cannot change their auto pay settings or their payment schedule. They must contact your camp and have an admin make these changes on their behalf. To learn more, click here.
  • To pay an invoice, parents need to click the "Make a Payment" button at the top of the Financial tab and choose the correct payment schedule to apply the payment towards. CampSite will automatically allocate the payment towards any generated invoices on that payment schedule that have an amount due.
Parent Dashboard: Payment Methods

Families can view and manage their saved payment methods from the "Payment Methods" section of the Financial tab.

Note: Your camp's Financial: Parent Dashboard settings control whether or not families can view their payment schedule and download invoices from this page. To learn more about how to control these settings, click here.

To see an overview of the entire Financial tab of the Parent Dashboard, click here.

Financial Tab

To access the Financial tab, click the Financial link in the left sidebar menu.

Payment Methods

Scroll to the Payment Methods section. Here, parents can add new payment methods and also update existing methods.

If your camp processes both credit card and checking account transactions, these accounts will appear in separate sections, like shown above.

Add a New Payment Method

Click the + ADD PAYMENT METHOD... button.

Select which type of payment method to add (credit card or checking account).

Note: Your payment gateway provider determines which payment methods you can process. If you don't process a certain payment method (e.g. checking account transactions), parents won't see this option when adding a payment method.

After selecting a payment method, enter all of the payment method details.

The "billing e-mail" is used for automatic emails that are sent when a payment is approved and/or declined (if your camp has enabled these emails. To learn more, click here.)

Update an Existing Payment Method

Click the edit icon on the far left of the payment method(as pictured above). This icon is the same for both credit cards and checking accounts.

For saved credit cards, the expiration date and billing email can be updated.

For checking accounts, the billing email can be updated.

Editing Credit Card and Checking Account Numbers

To help prevent fraud, CampSite doesn’t store credit card and checking account numbers in their original format. Instead, they're coverted into algorithmic “tokens”, i.e. a string of randomly-generated numbers. These tokens can be used by CampSite and your payment gateway to successfully process payment without exposing actual bank details.

Since credit card and checking account numbers are not stored in their original format, neither parents or admins cannot edit these numbers after the payment method's been added into CampSite. If a credit card or bank account number needs to be edited, the payment method must be deleted and added again. Note that only admins can delete payment methods.

Designate a "Primary" Payment Method

The primary payment method is the method used by CampSite when automatic payments are processed for a payment schedule invoice (if the family is on a payment schedule and is set to auto pay).  

The primary payment method is indicated with a green checkmark.

To designate a different method as primary, double click the grey checkmark next to that method. Note that only one payment method (per payment method type) can be set as primary.

Parent Dashboard: Invoice Preferences

All families on a payment schedule need to designate which parent(s) should receive invoices for each of their payments, via the "Invoice Preferences" section of the Financial tab.

Note: Your camp's Financial: Parent Dashboard settings control whether or not families can view their payment schedule and download invoices from this page. To learn more about how to control these settings, click here.

To see an overview of the entire Financial tab of the Parent Dashboard, click here.

Financial Tab

To access the Financial tab, click the Financial link in the left sidebar menu.

Invoice Preferences

Scroll to the Invoice Preferences section at the bottom of the page. Here, parents will see each parent (primary and/or divorced) listed on their account, with a checkbox on the left. Checkmark any/all parents who should receive invoices and click "SAVE INVOICE PREFERENCES" to apply any changes.  

All parents selected will receive the family's invoice when admins send invoices in mass during the invoicing process.