Concepts
What Integrations's records are and how they fit together.
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Guide
- Events and Webinars Connections: Where to Start
Rhythm connects to Zoom for webinars and meetings, Cadmium EventScribe for the conference app, and eShow for exhibitor booths.
Explanation
- Integrations and Connections Explained
An integration is an outside product Rhythm knows how to work with; a connection is the record your account keeps of that setup.
- How Payments Are Processed Through Authorize.Net and BluePay
What happens after a card or bank payment is sent to Authorize.Net or BluePay, why a cancelled payment is sometimes voided and sometimes refunded, and why a repeated charge can be blocked.
- How a Payment Page Saves a Card Without Rhythm Seeing It
A payment page sends a card or bank account straight to the payment processor, so Rhythm only ever keeps a reference to it.
- Lockbox Files, Statuses, and Results Explained
A lockbox file is the bank's spreadsheet of mailed cheques plus the settings its payments use.
- How Imported Lockbox Payments Are Built
What each payment created by a lockbox import contains — who it is billed to, which batch and bank account it lands in, its date and reference number — and the difference between paying an invoice, crediting the excess, and a pure credit.
- How Rhythm Finds the Invoice for Each Lockbox Cheque
What a member can write on a cheque so Rhythm finds the right invoice, which invoice is chosen when an order number is used instead, and why a cheque amount can go unread.
- How Marketing Platform Connections Work
What connecting Mailchimp, Campaign Monitor, Higher Logic Informz, or ActiveCampaign to Rhythm actually does, the two ways to connect, and what stays behind when you remove a connection.
- Learning and Community Connections Explained
What connecting Canvas, CommPartners Elevate, Blue Sky Path LMS, Honor Education, Higher Logic, Clowder, or Forj to Rhythm actually sets up, which allow more than one connection, and the difference between a course-type mapping, a credit mapping, and a community field rule.
- How Rhythm Registers People for Zoom Webinars and Meetings
What happens in Zoom when Rhythm registers a contact for a webinar or meeting, cancels that registration, and why the Zoom confirmation email — not the Rhythm event email — carries the join link, plus what can keep a registration or its join link from working and how Zoom attendance updates check-in.
- Embedded Dashboards Explained
What an embedded analytics dashboard is, how a Rhythm page shows one, and why it only ever shows your own organization's data — plus why two staff members can see different options on the same page.