Online Donations

[scgallafent]

it would be almost as fun to know if they are rolling it out by unit number, alphabetically, regionally, or however.

Regionally -- by Church area.

[gregwanderson]

I don't check very often (perhaps not in the past four weeks or so) but based on this flurry of reports I tried it today and, Yes! I now have access to the donations section at LDS.org! I don't think this was announced in my ward yet but, to be honest, I've arrived a bit late to church in the last two weeks so maybe I missed the announcement.

[lajackson]

Regionally -- by Church area.

Wow. Those are pretty big hunks. My hope meter has ratcheted up another notch. [smile]

[russellhltn]

I count 5 areas covering the US, so at the rate of one a month, they'll be done in December ......

[Dsnow554783]

My ward now has access. I can use the system just fine. I am trying to help the rest of the ward member get access. Some of the ward members are getting some errors. What is the best way to get technical support.

one of the error messages we are getting is " The unit you belong to does not support online donations. Please select a country that you want your donations to go to."

[russellhltn]

Some of the ward members are getting some errors. What is the best way to get technical support.

You can try Ctrl-F5 to force the page to reload. Otherwise, I'd wait. It might take a bit of time to percolate through the server farm.

[lajackson]

I count 5 areas covering the US, so at the rate of one a month, they'll be done in December ......

There are ten areas that cover portions of the United States. So yes, if five are already on the system, one a month would do it. It seems that at least four of them a working. (Utah has three and Idaho has one.)

And they have said all along that the rollout would be completed by December, which appears to be very achievable and, barring any difficulties, will probably actually happen.

[sbradshaw]

I don't think all of Utah has it yet. My YSA stake in Provo doesn't have access – unless there's a bug.

[lajackson]

I don't think all of Utah has it yet. My YSA stake in Provo doesn't have access – unless there's a bug.

I imagine that within ecclesiastical areas they are rolling it out by stakes as quickly as they can. I heard that a stake belonging to the same area I do was a part of the beta test. I assume that stake still has it, but the rest of the area does not yet.

And some areas in the U.S. extend into Canada, and Canada is not part of the U.S. ACH system. So that would mean only the U.S. portion of those areas are a part of the rollout this year (unless something similar is happening in Canada). They would have to do that by stake, as well (maybe even ward/branch, in some border cases).

So I am guessing that they are taking the areas one at a time and activating all of the stakes within that area, then moving on to the next. It's probably all on a spreadsheet somewhere. [smile]

[jonesrk]

It's probably all on a spreadsheet somewhere. [smile]

That is how we determined the order for the final LCR 3.0 release. Of course each group there was a day apart, and that was for the time to import the HTVT data.