We’ve noticed a couple of Wings in our region using GovPay. Has anyone had any experience of using it on a squadron?
I know SW Region are using it for RIAT this year, haven’t heard anything else about it though. Wouldn’t have the foggiest clue on how to set it up for local events or squadron purposes, if we even can…?
As far as I am aware (having had a very quick read through the documentation) we should be able to…
Just want to see if someone has done the hard work of setting it all up.
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Staffs Wing certainly did; it was pretty efficient for getting payments in for courses etc from memory. Not sure what it’s like on the Civ Com admin side.
I know a sqn who do use it but as @redowling said Staffs Wing use it for a fair few things.
You can setup a test account and make mock transactions to see how it works.
i know the SW Region bod who set this up for RIAT, and she had a massive struggle, not in the process but just getting it done in reasonable time.
the deadline for TG forms being issued was 1 May, and for payment 1 July.
not unreasonable for those selected Cadets to send in their TG forms, and then within two months pays the £20 for camp.
it wasn’t until mid-June, and a little less than 3 weeks prior to the deadline was GovPay set up correctly and available to share as a link.
While 3 weeks is plenty of time to pay the camp fee, it was months of work (chasing) to get to that point.
it may be that now it is set up, it will be easy(ier) in future years…
i do know however that refunding while straightforward, does come with a “admin fee” and so costs money. (it would appear while refunds are available, it is only for exactly what was paid. So £20 paid is £20 refunded, there is no way to refund £19.40 to cover a £0.60 admin fee.)
As a result the SWR RIAT camp fee is considered non-refundable