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We've introduced Joint Gift Support, making it easy for you to associate multiple donors with a single transaction — perfect for couples, families, or group contributions — without splitting the gift amount or inflating donor records.
What's New?
Joint Donor Attribution
Add Donor 2, Donor 3, and beyond to any gift — all credited to the same transaction. Each named donor appears wherever gifts are displayed, from leaderboards to tickers, while the gift amount is counted only once toward campaign totals.
Ideal for couples, families, or any group giving together under a single check or transaction.
Admin-Side Flexibility
Joint donors can be added when creating or editing a gift — no changes needed to donor-facing forms. Admins stay in full control of how joint contributions are recorded and attributed.
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Accurate Donor Counts, Always
Each named joint donor counts as a unique donor toward campaign totals, donor counts, and match/challenge calculations — so your numbers reflect reality without duplicate gift amounts skewing your financials.
Seamless RENXT Sync
Joint gifts sync cleanly: the primary donor receives the main gift record, and joint donors receive soft credits — keeping your Raiser's Edge NXT data accurate and audit-ready.
Why It Matters
  • Honors how donors actually give — together — without administrative workarounds
  • Gift amount is counted once; donor headcount reflects all contributors
  • Leaderboards and tickers show joint donors together
  • Per-donor match and challenge goals unlock for all named donors on the gift
  • Dollar-per-dollar matches are driven by the gift amount, not inflated by joint donor additions
Whether it's a couple writing a single check or a family pooling contributions, Joint Gift Support ensures every donor gets the recognition they deserve — and your campaign data stays clean.
Email lists through excel will now be validated before uploading. The system checks for incorrect IDs, mismatched records, and potential duplicates—showing you exactly what will happen before any data is added or updated.
This helps prevent:
  • Wrong emails being sent
  • Duplicate records
  • Sync errors with Raiser’s Edge
You can review, fix, or proceed with full visibility during upload. **Learn more**
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You can now run auctions directly within Almabase Events - without relying on spreadsheets, bid sheets, or manual payment follow-ups.
Auctions are built for advancement teams running galas, giving events, and hybrid fundraisers, and bring setup, bidding, and checkout into one connected experience.
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What’s changing
Auctions are now part of your Almabase fundraising toolkit within Events.
On the admin side, auctions are being organized more clearly under fundraising options, making them easier to discover and configure alongside other fundraising features. You’ll be able to manage auction setup, timing, payment settings, and item creation in a more structured way.
On the bidder side, supporters get a mobile-first experience with:
  • Easy item discovery and search
  • Real-time outbid notifications and activity summaries
  • A 'My Bids' view to track active bids
  • Streamlined multi-item checkout
This rollout also sets the foundation for more complete payment workflows, including flexible payment windows, saved cards, auto-charge support, sales tax handling, and Buy Now pricing for select items.
What to expect
This release focuses on two things:
  • First, making auctions easier for platform admins to find and set up.
  • Second, giving bidders a smoother experience from browsing to bidding to checkout.
You’ll see a cleaner setup experience in Events, a dedicated place to manage auction items, and a stronger foundation for future auction reporting and payment controls.
Why this matters
Auctions can drive significant fundraising, but they often create a lot of manual work.
With Almabase Auctions, your team can reduce admin overhead, keep bidders engaged, and move toward faster, more reliable payment collection - all within the same platform you already use for events.
In other words, Almabase Events can now support fundraising not just through registrations and appeals, but through auctions too.
Note: Auctions are available on request. Talk to your Customer Success Manager to get started.
What's new
Admins can now configure a giving page to display a single donation split across multiple funds as individual gifts — one per fund — on the donor's end. Gift counts on thermometers and everywhere across the campaign will reflect the total number of fund splits, not just the number of transactions.
Why we made this change
When a donor gives to multiple funds in a single transaction, every contribution deserves its moment! 🙌 Previously, a split gift counted as just one gift, no matter how many funds it supported. Now, each fund-level contribution is visible and counted — so donors feel the full weight of their generosity recognised.
How to configure it
This is controlled per giving page. Head to the giving page settings, open Campaign Settings, and toggle on "Show each fund donation as a separate gift". ✅
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You can now choose whether payment gateway charges are factored into your fundraising goal progress, giving you more accurate visibility into the actual funds raised for your cause.
What's changed:
A new toggle is available on Competitive and Crowdfunding giving pages that lets admins exclude payment gateway (PG) charges from the thermometer and goal calculations.
When enabled, only the net amount (after processing fees) counts toward your goal. So your progress bar reflects what truly goes to your organization.
How it works
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  • Navigate to your giving page settings and look for the Exclude Payment Gateway Charges toggle (previously the DCC button)
  • When enabled Payment Gateway charges are subtracted from the thermometer and goal totals
  • When disabled the full amount collected (including processing fees) is counted, as before
We’ve launched a purpose-built Sponsorship Registration workflow designed for organizations to streamline sponsor onboarding, payments, and guest management—without relying on emails, spreadsheets, or manual coordination.
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✅ What’s New for Sponsors
  • Dedicated registration experience: Sponsors receive a unique link that guides them through a tailored flow—no login needed.
  • Tier selection + payment options: Sponsors can choose their level, and pay.
  • Sponsor Portal: After submitting, sponsors get access to a portal to manage guests, check payment status, and update info anytime.
✅ What’s New for Admins
  • Quick sponsor setup: Generate sponsor-specific links and track registrations in real time.
  • Smart guest tracking: See which sponsors have added guest info, made payments, or are missing details—all in one dashboard.
  • Manual override controls: Easily edit responses, or mark sponsors as paid when needed.
  • Tier management: Define sponsorship levels, guest limits, and questions up front—no workarounds required.
💡 Why This Matters
Gone are the days of juggling spreadsheets, chasing down guest names over email, or waiting on checks. Now, sponsors move through a structured, self-service flow, and admins get full visibility and control—with zero back-and-forth.

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Admin Experience

✨ New Admin-Only Registration Workflow

Admins can now manage registrations faster and with more control—no more clicking through donor-facing forms.
✅ What’s New
  • Dedicated admin registration flow:
    Designed specifically for admins to add or update registrations quickly - bypassing guest-side restrictions.
  • Bypass limits with clarity:
    Override seating limits, deadlines, or required fields when needed - no confusion.
  • Inline guest editing:
    Edit names, tickets, and check-in status directly from the guest table - no full form required.
  • One view for all info:
    See tickets, guests, payment, and check-in status in a single screen.
  • Instant check-in for walk-ins:
    Add a guest and mark them as checked in immediately.
💡 Why This Matters
Whether you're managing last-minute walk-ins, correcting typos, or making exceptions, this workflow puts speed and flexibility back in your hands without compromising data accuracy.
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We’re introducing
Tiered Giving within Competitive Giving Pages
, designed to support both simple campaigns and large Giving Days without adding unnecessary complexity for institutions to present impact-based giving options — such as departments, causes, or priority areas within
a single Giving Page
all while keeping setup simple and checkout seamless for donors.
Subpages
✨ What’s New?
🧱 Tiered Giving (Subpages)
Break down a single Giving Page into structured
subpages
— think “mini giving pages” within one page. Each subpage can represent a department, priority area, or impact theme and can include:
  • Linked campaigns
  • Subpage-level goals
  • Leaderboards and impact stats
  • Custom sections and visuals
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Perfect for large Giving Days with many giving options.
📄 Internal Pages, Not Separate Pages
No more workarounds, external links, or duplicate Giving Pages. These new subpages live
within
a single Giving Page and inherit all your existing setup — gateway, receipts, and attribution logic included.
🛒 One Cart, One Checkout
Donors can explore different tiers, choose causes they care about, and
complete one transaction
— with full attribution to each campaign and subpage. Clean for you, smooth for them.
💡 Why It Matters
  • Keeps
    simple campaigns simple
    , while supporting more complex use cases
  • Donors experience a
    guided journey by impact
    , not by navigation quirks
  • No need for multiple standalone pages or patchwork campaign hubs
  • Ensures
    accurate attribution
    across campaigns and departments
  • Scales naturally with features like leaderboards and challenges
🚀 Whether you're running a simple annual appeal or a complex, multi-department Giving Day, Tiered Giving gives you the flexibility to scale without the hassle.
We’ve introduced "
Add to Cart
" across Campaigns, a major upgrade to the Giving Day donor experience that allows donors to support multiple campaigns through a single, seamless checkout. This removes the need for separate transactions per campaign and significantly reduces friction during high-volume Giving Days.
✨What’s New?
🛒 Add to Cart Across Campaigns
Your donors can now support multiple campaigns in one seamless checkout — no need to complete separate transactions for each gift.
They can:
  • Add gifts from different campaigns to a single cart.
  • Checkout once, no matter how many campaigns they support.
  • Navigate freely across the Giving Day experience while their cart stays intact.
No more clicking back and forth or starting over — just a smooth, modern giving flow.
🧠 Smarter “Give” Buttons, Everywhere
Every campaign card now features a consistent and intelligent “Give / Add to Cart” action, tailored to the campaign setup:
  • If a campaign has a single fund, donors can enter the amount right there.
  • If it has multiple funds, a selection modal appears.
  • If donors add to the same fund from different campaigns, amounts are cumulative and editable, with clear visual cues.
This means fewer clicks, less confusion, and more confidence for your donors.
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🔍 What to Expect
Donors can support more causes, faster, without hitting checkout roadblocks
  • Donors can check out once, even as they explore multiple campaigns, with gifts to different causes consolidated through Add to Cart.
  • “Make a Gift” transforms into “View Cart” as gifts are added.
  • Gifts to the same fund are intelligently combined with transparent, editable amounts
✅ Why It Matters
  • Boost participation and total giving by reducing friction.
  • Increase average campaigns per donor with a cart-first experience.
  • Improve discoverability — no more guessing where funds live.
Set your Giving Day up for success, especially with multiple campaigns in play.
🚀 These updates are live, intuitive, and ready to go — no setup required on your end. If you're planning a big Giving Day, these improvements are built to help you shine.
Organizations with large fund portfolios have long faced a tough tradeoff: Do you give donors a beautiful, curated giving experience with categories and storytelling or the freedom to search for any fund they care about?
We’ve introduced a powerful
Fund Catalog
on our
Competitive Giving Pages
, serving as a new discovery engine that lets donors browse and search funds in one seamless experience.
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✅ What’s New?
With this update, the Fund Catalog now includes full search capability - without losing the curated experience.
Donors can now:
  • 🗂️ Explore grouped funds by category, impact area, or campaign theme
  • 🔍 Search all active funds — even ones not shown in your categories
  • 🧠 Find funds using partial names, keywords, or common variations
  • ➕ Add multiple gifts to their cart with zero friction
Admins can:
  • Customize categories and subcategories to guide donor journeys
  • Highlight key funds while still making every fund discoverable
  • Offer a clean, guided experience without hiding valuable giving options
📌 What to Expect
  • Search intelligently surfaces both categorized and uncategorized funds
  • Handles all workflows: Mixed search results, “No result” fallback suggestions, Optional custom fund flow (if enabled)
  • Fully integrated with the Add to Cart experience
  • Blazing fast — even for orgs with 1,500+ funds
🔥 Why It Matters
  • Give donors freedom + guidance in one powerful experience
  • Increase conversion by reducing friction — especially for high-value gifts
  • Reduce donor support overhead during peak campaigns
  • Scale your Giving Day confidently, no matter how many funds you manage
Whether you have 50 or 5,000 funds, this unlocks an organized, intuitive, and complete giving experience — letting you choose between a fund list or a fund catalog based on your use case.
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