These are predominately used of Gift Aid Standing Orders donors, but can also be used for regular not gift aid income and Parish Standing Order/Direct Debit payments.

When setting these up please make sure you take time when entering the recurring entries and get them right the first time round!

If you make a mistake when setting these up and you have not really started on OPAS with no bank reconciliation done, then I would suggest you delete them and re-enter then again.

If you choose to correct them, then the corrections will only come active from the date you amend them. Basically speaking you cannot back date a correction and so for example: if you have accidentally named someone P A Luxton from 06/04/10 and you realise then should be just A Luxton and you correct this on say 02/08/10 then the 06/08/10 onwards entry will be correct but all the entries for 06/04/10, 06/05/10. 06/06/10 and 06/07/10 will remain as P A Luxton. This goes for anything you correction you make, which may be date, amount, type of payment etc.

Finally recurring entries have to be set up by OPAS users before standing order Gift Aid donations go through to the Gift Aid module.

Info from Aimee Luxton
Diocese of Plymouth