Ability for donors to make check pledges in the donation flow
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Max Friedman
Givebutter already supports offline donations in the dashboard, but this is only accessible to admins. We could give admins the ability to enable this option for donors on their campaign pages, too.
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Liran Cohen
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Hi all! You are now able to enable a feature from your Dashboard that will publicly display the option for a donor to pay with a check. You can also leave instructions for where they should mail the check to.
We are marking this feature request as complete, as it relates to accepting check donations only. However, we understand there are additional features that would be useful surrounding pledging in particular. If you are interested in continuing to receive updates about pleadge features, please subscribe to the feature request at this link: https://community.givebutter.com/feature-requests/p/pledge-donations.
Rhea Jackson
Liran Cohen: I have a couple of concerns/questions about this new “Mark as Check” Feature.
It seems when someone marks “Check” their donation is imported into the Bloomerang database with the payment method check, already chosen. When looking in Bloomerang and pulling reports, this information is indicating we have already received this money form an individual; yet we are still waiting on a check and would manually need to input this. We wish the Check piece was marked more as a note and not an actual form of payment.
Are we supposed to receive emails when someone makes an online donation and marks “check” as their payment method? I have realized I have missed a lot of donations and tickets come through our system because I didn’t receive an email. Are “checks” only indicated in an Export of Transactions with breakdown?
Liran Cohen
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Liran Cohen
Rhea Jackson
YES! GiveButter would be the ONLY platform (based on my research) to give the option to accept pledges in addition to one time and monthly gifts.
Rhea Jackson
When thinking of our virtual fundraising event this year - right now, we are going to have to send donors outside of Givebutter (to something like JotForm) if they would like to make a multiple year pledge. It would be helpful (and likely more donor $$$) if they could do this all in one place.
Also, having the option to select HOW they want to pay their pledge - some donors which to give their pledge auto through c.c. monthly/bi-monthly/yearly and some like to give through check or donor advised fund.
Julia Buchanan
yes please do!
Liran Cohen
planned
katherine ware
as soon as possible, please!
Mark Rummel
For us, it would be great to have the option to enable pledges at a campaign level. I would think it could be in the flow, like making gifts in honor/memory of someone. We would use this at our big events where we are asking for donations today and pledges for the next three years (not just cash/checks, but any type of financial gift, including online). Could be cool for donors to be able to indicate future online donations (perhaps via our general donation campaign) to go towards their pledge and be able to track their progress towards their pledge in their Givebutter account.
Max Friedman
Would be great to add the ability for admins to indicate whether these offline donations were "paid" or not, effectively giving donors a "pay later" or "pledge" option.
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