We're thrilled to announce an additional capability that lets you choose a video as the banner for your type giving page. This update gives you even more creative control to captivate your audience right from the start.

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We’re thrilled to announce a new update designed to streamline itinerary management for longer events! Based on feedback from our customers, we’ve reimagined how admins can create and manage itineraries, removing unnecessary complexity and improving the overall user experience.

Previously, adding an itinerary for events required creating sub-events—even for general-purpose items like "Check-in Counters" or "Meetup for Prayer." This approach cluttered the admin interface since every sub-event required free tickets or RSVPs, even when these weren't needed.

To address this, we’ve introduced , a new feature that allows admins to add general-purpose schedule details without needing to create sub-events.

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Create standalone itinerary items with the following details:

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We’re excited to announce a new feature designed to give organizations better control over profile visibility, ensuring smoother management and alignment with user preferences.

This feature introduces two key functionalities:

Admins can now decide whether profiles are visible by default or not. Once toggled on, all new profiles will be visible by default unless individually edited otherwise.

Admins can also edit whether users can control their own visibility. If enabled, users then can change their profile visibility while getting onboarded to the platform, as well as while editing their profiles.

Whether admins creating profiles individually or in bulk, this feature ensures visibility settings align with their organization’s needs without additional manual effort.

This update ensures flexibility, efficiency, and a more user-centric approach to profile visibility management.

Within site settings, under custom features, admins will now see two new toggles as seen below:

We’re excited to announce a new feature in the Event module that allows you to allocate a separate fund for the tax-deductible portion of an event ticket. This enhancement ensures better financial tracking and compliance for organizations managing events with partially tax-deductible tickets.

For detailed steps on how to set up this feature, refer to our Knowledge Base article.

We hope this update makes managing your events even more seamless!

If a fund has been legally closed or is no longer in use, you can unpublish it on Almabase. Unpublishing ensures that the fund is hidden from donors and cannot be added to new giving campaigns or events.

To unpublish a fund

The unpublished fund will be immediately removed from all active giving campaigns, preventing donors from making gifts to it.

When creating new campaigns, unpublished funds will no longer appear as options.

Unpublishing does not remove the fund from existing events to avoid disrupting syncing payments with Raiser's Edge.

For any new events or tickets you create, unpublished funds will not appear as selectable options.

We at Almabase are always working to make our user interfaces consistent so our admins can spend less time in understanding how to operate the system and more time actually utilizing our system.

With this in mind, we have revamped our sent emails tab. This revamp attempts to ensure our admins can get access to important information in a more meaningful way via a quick glance.

We hope this update is as helpful for you as we wanted it to be. Happy communicating!

Almabase now supports BBPOS WisePOS E™ devices integrated with Blackbaud Merchant Services (BBMS), enabling seamless on-site payment collection. Ideal for Events Pro/Advanced customers in the US and Canada, this feature allows multiple devices per event, secure transaction processing, and enhanced user experience through faster check-ins and reduced queues.

BBPOS WisePOS E™ is the supported device.

Currently available in the US and Canada.

Yes, you can configure multiple POS devices per event.

POS is supported with Blackbaud Merchant Services (BBMS).

For detailed setup instructions, visit Almabase Help Center.

We’ve introduced a new setting to give admins more control over the automated emails sent to donors participating in Competitive Giving campaigns.

You can now block system-generated influencer emails from going out automatically to all donors, allowing you to maintain the flexibility and control over your campaign’s communications. By enabling the new “Block Influencer Emails” setting, admins can ensure that emails align with the specific workflows and vision for your gamified fundraising efforts.

Navigate to Site Settings > Fundraising to locate the new toggle.

Previously, all donors, whether or not their donation was successful, would automatically receive an influencer email after completing their personal information. This sometimes led to confusion and didn’t always match how influencer workflows are structured. With this new toggle, you have the option to prevent these emails from being sent, giving you more control over the donor experience.

In our constant effort to make your website truly , we have now enabled the capability to create and sync your Almabase pages through WordPress and Elementor.

We’re rolling out an important update on how subevents are configured on Almabase, designed to enhance guest management and provide a clearer separation between guest lists for main events and their subevents. This change will streamline the process for both admins and attendees.

Going forward, every newly created sub-event on Almabase must be associated to a ticket. This will now be a mandatory step for admins.

Currently, when a sub-event is created without an associated ticket, guests from the main event are automatically considered to be attending the sub-event. The system assumes that if the sub-event is free and doesn’t require an explicit ticket, it should be added to the guests’ itinerary by default. This often creates confusion and makes it harder to manage guest lists for events and sub-events separately.

Admins will now be required to associate a ticket with every sub-event, including free ones. Attendees must explicitly book tickets, even for free sub-events, ensuring only interested guests are added to the sub-event guest list.