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End User friendly payment options like zelle, apple pay?

  • July 30, 2026
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swirtholg
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We’ve experienced an uptick of clients getting frustrated with the client portal, which delays us receiving deposits and final payments on projects. Clients don’t love having to create an account to view and pay their invoices online versus utlizing previously established accounts such as apple pay, intuit invoices (which allow for apple pay), or using zelle to send payments. 

The office administrators experience is that working to accomodate these client concerns requires double work and falls outside our existing AR systems. In some cases, it simply can’t be done at all.
Examples include having to re-create the invoice in quickbooks, send it, receive the payment, delete the payment and invoice and quickbooks and re-enter it in Aspire. 

 

Does anyone have a system or process for these situations that works to allow for faster payments and various payment options outside of using the client portal WITHOUT creating a bunch of double work? 

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mhellweg
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  • July 30, 2026

@swirtholg  All of our clients receive an emailed invoice and can pay through our standard payment options. They can only pay by credit card using the portal, but it incurs a fee. We don’t allow any other payment options through the portal.


swirtholg
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  • July 30, 2026

@swirtholg  All of our clients receive an emailed invoice and can pay through our standard payment options. They can only pay by credit card using the portal, but it incurs a fee. We don’t allow any other payment options through the portal.

So, a paper check would be outside of the portal…….. We also offer ACH in our portal as well as credit cards (with the fee). We really try to reduce paper checks.  Does your invoice include a payment method outside of the portal that would be reflected in aspire automatically or its all reconcilliations and hand work? 


mhellweg
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  • July 30, 2026

@swirtholg reconciliations and manual entry, I’m pretty sure. A lot of work between AR and AP! 

 


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I posed this question to our Aspire Success Manager a while back.  We need to make it easy for our clients to pay us!


mhellweg
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  • July 30, 2026

Yes… barriers to payment are not helpful. 🤪


swirtholg
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  • July 31, 2026

I’ve added an idea in the idea portal!  Provide an upvote! 

https://feedback.youraspire.com/ideas/WAP-I-8112


SoboYiW
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  • July 31, 2026

I’ve added an idea in the idea portal!  Provide an upvote! 

https://feedback.youraspire.com/ideas/WAP-I-8112

The payment is a real hurt to our business.  This vote may not open to public yet. I will vote once it is published. 


mhellweg
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  • July 31, 2026

Please let us know once the idea is accepted!


swirtholg
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  • August 6, 2026

Its been accepted! Get your votes in! https://feedback.youraspire.com/ideas/WAP-I-8112


bbrink
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  • Employee
  • August 7, 2026

Hi All. Brian from the Aspire Product Management team here. I appreciate all of you contributing to this community and this thread. I’m happy to say that we are making a lot of investments in this area. We are adding a number of large improvements to payment collection and the customer portal. Later this year we will allow for payment without login where a link can be distributed and allow “guest payment.” This will also be mobile friendly to help with customers that want to pay on the go. We are looking at some of the “alternative” payment means beyond ach and credit card, but it’s a bit too early for me to confirm more there at this point. 

Last, I’ll add that streamlining the cash collection process to speed up cashflow is a key factor for our teams that focus on the accountant / back office role. 

Cheers!


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Its been accepted! Get your votes in! https://feedback.youraspire.com/ideas/WAP-I-8112

I’m not seeing that idea in the portal.  Can you please confirm it’s definitely Idea #8112 so that I can vote for it?


mhellweg
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  • August 7, 2026

@bbrink Thanks for the update!

@swirtholg I am also not seeing the idea when I search.


swirtholg
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  • August 7, 2026

@mhellweg - https://feedback.youraspire.com/ideas/WAP-I-8112 

 

Does this link work for you? it still pulled up for me 


bbrink
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  • Employee
  • August 17, 2026

Try now. It was set as only visible to the creator. Normally once it gets reviewed, it becomes available for all to view. 


mhellweg
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  • August 17, 2026

All set now!