How to setup a Donation plan and link to Open Enrollment

Summary:

Currently, we have a program that allows our team members to donate money from their paychecks to help other team members in need. However, it is a manual process and is not linked to Open enrollment. We send them a pledge card via email and then we assign the reoccuring element to those employees for the actual deductions. But would like to create a Benefit plan that is linked to open enrollment and also to payroll to eliminate the manual work in between.

I did discover some information on Donation Pools but not quite sure if that is the correct route to go.