If your organization is collaborating with a partner to host an event, you may use a separate Stripe account to process payments for that event's registration. This is especially useful for international organizations where a local component, operating in a different currency, manages the accounting. Domestically, this feature can also be applied when a 501(c)(6) organization processes registrations for a related 501(c)(3) or Political Action Committee (PAC), ensuring that funds remain completely separate.

This is an advanced feature that must be enabled by the Novi team. Please read this entire article to understand the benefits and drawbacks to this approach before contacting us to enable it for you. Of course, we're happy to help you evaluate your options as well.

The feature assumes you want to keep accounting records outside of your connected QuickBooks account. While event registrations will be tracked in Novi, no transactions will be logged in your QuickBooks account. All accounting will occur within the connected Stripe account. If you need more detailed accounting or wish to apply country-specific taxes, we recommend exploring alternative solutions.

For separate organizations that all operate using the US Dollar, we highly recommend that you review our article on accounting for different entities before asking our team to enable multi-entity credit card processing.

When this multi-entity credit card processing has been enabled by the Novi team, in Association Settings > QuickBooks, admins will see a section called Multi-Entity Credit Card Processing.

Add the Name of the processor, add the currency from the Currency column, and click + Add Account.

Once added, admins will see a message to save to allow the connection. Click Save & Close in the Association Settings modal.

When the Association Settings modal is re-opened, in the QuickBooks tab the messaging will have updated to allow for the connection to Stripe.

Once Stripe is connected, the Name field will be updated to include the Stripe ID

Admins can delete a processor so long as no active events are using the processor.

To enable an event to use the multi-entity credit card processing feature, admins should check the box labeled "Enable Third Party Payment Processor" in the Accounting section of the event within the event's Details tab.

When selected, a reminder message will appear that admins must acknowledge before proceeding by clicking OK:

Once enabled, admins can select the processor from a dropdown; the dropdown is populated from the processors that have been added in Association Settings.

Note: When using this feature, invoicing and ACH options are disabled. Credit card payments processed through Stripe are the only option.

To enable this feature, please contact Novi AMS at help@noviams.com or via the blue bubble from the backend of your Novi website.