Giving

The end goal here would be to have each gift counted in participation but only have the donor name show one time on the leaderboard. This could be fixed by having an optional check box on the gift settings that lets you "hide from leaderboard".

We would like the leaderboard whether participation or generosity, to be sorted by things other than gift amount. Would like randomized, latest gift, or alphabetically. That way the leaderboard does not show in the same order every time a donor visits the page.

While you can reorder the funds for how they would appear on the main campaign page, they aren't available for the campaign within a hub. We have 80+ funds within a campaign and multiple hubs. This is very important for us.

Please add a better way to reorganize giving pages on the Gift Dashboard and reorganizing funds within giving pages. The drag and drop method is terrible when you have lots of options. I suggest adding a alpha sort option and a way where there is a box next to each item where you can type a number to move it to that spot in the list.

I love the addition of the unlocking and matching gift features in the hub. I think it would be even better if you have the option to turn on the challenge for a certain time period. For example, we have a challenge that $20,000 will be unlocked if 200 gifts are made in one day. I would like to be able to say it is active on March 3 from 8:00am - 11:59pm. We have similar challenges over the course of our giving campaign. There is not an easy way to tie gifts made during a certain time period to the campaign. We only have one fund so I can't track based on funds. My current workaround is a form question that we set to a default for each challenge in the hub. I don't want to use the challenge option because it doesn't show the progress.

The team at Calvert Hall has requested for the tribute wall to auto scroll for the donors so that they don't have to manually scroll through all the tributes using the -> arrows. The auto scroll will also ensure that all the tributes are in view on the wall instead of only the first couple.

Essentially the video feature cannot be used as I personally feel like most donors are visiting our giving pages via mobile methods rather than Desktop. I would like to see future updates focus more on the mobile side first. For the future, There needs to be an option like the images where you can upload both desktop and mobile versions: Desktop Video & Thumbnail (1200px X 375px) Mobile Video & Thumbnail (600 X 600) Additionally auto play should be standard! There also needs to be more description in the section to do this clearly stating the required dimensions, sound capability, etc. Having the option to do video on desktop and static image on mobile or video on mobile and static image for desktop would also be beneficial!

It would be nice for the challenges to have progress bars. It is more exciting for someone to give to a challenge if they know we are ALMOST there. Our team is going to have to track this manually and then update the description to say (25% of the way there). That seems wild considering this is a crowdfunding platform....

For our giving day next year, we are making our goal the number of donors, not the number of gifts. Last year our goal was number of gifts, and donors made up names to make a different gift which made the record keeping extremely difficult. So this time we are doing it based on donors and telling them we are basing each donor off their credit card information so they don't do that again. Our goal this year is 580 donors, and we want to be able to show the process on giving day.

We have several alumni couples who donate as one household. It would be helpful in a Competitive giving page if donors and their spouse could make a joint gift so they are both counted in participation totals and leaderboards. The soft credit capability is great in terms of being able to sync data between Almabase and RE, but it doesn't actually allow us to recognize a donor and their spouse if their spouse is also affiliated with the school. For example, if Jane Smith donates from Class of 1992 on behalf of her and her husband John Smith, Class of 1989. It would be helpful to show Jane's name in Class of 1992 participation and John in Class of 1989 participation. I'm sure many school's have competitions where the leaderboard shows participation by class, and it is very difficult to ask them to split their gift in advance. Please also note that GiveCampus has this functionality as well as the ability to manually manipulate thermometer and leaderboard totals without impacting the transaction totals.