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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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✨ 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
💡
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.
Your Giving campaigns just got a major upgrade! You can now customize how your campaigns are displayed and described — without breaking layouts or sacrificing visual clarity.
Campaign Description and summary
✨ What’s New?
🧾 Summary Field (New)
  • Add a short, punchy message (max 250 characters) to show on campaign cards.
  • Optional — if skipped, the card will simply show no description for a cleaner look.
💡 Think of it as your campaign’s elevator pitch!
🎥 Rich Description Editor (Improved)
  • Add images, videos, headings, quotes, emojis, and more to your campaign story.
  • Use this space to inspire donors with compelling visuals and content.
  • Fully responsive and accessible across devices.
💡 Why It Matters
  • Boost engagement with stronger storytelling and visuals
  • Maintain clean layouts on Giving Hubs and landing pages
  • Control visibility: Summary shows on cards only when helpful, while full description lives in the expanded view
🛠 Where to Find It
When editing a campaign:
  • Go to the admin drawer → You’ll see new fields for Summary and Description with helpful tips and examples.
No setup required. Works seamlessly with your existing campaigns.
🚀 Start using summaries to make your campaign cards stand out — and use the enhanced editor to tell a richer story.
We’ve rolled out an upgrade to how gift payment data syncs from Almabase to Raiser’s Edge NXT for customers using BBMS as the payment gateway. This update doesn’t change anything about how gifts are created or processed in Almabase — it just improves what shows up inside Raiser’s Edge to support better finance workflows.
What’s new:
• Richer payment details sync automatically — including cardholder name, card type, card expiry, and authorization codes in Raiser’s Edge.
• These details help make reconciliation and audits easier, provide clearer audit trails, and surface important card info right where your finance team needs it.
What’s not changing:
• The donor experience stays the same.
• Gift creation, amounts, constituent mapping, and sync process remain unchanged.
• No configuration or action is required — the improvement is live automatically.
No more cookie-cutter designs for your biggest fundraising event of the year! You now have the power to
customize your Giving Day pages
visually and structurally without writing a single line of code or needing extra training.
What’s New?
🖼️
Choose Your Layout
Pick from
four new header styles
- Default, Compact, Expanded, and Detailed - to give your page the perfect first impression. Whether you’re highlighting a powerful story or just want a clean, focused look, there’s a layout that fits. You can pick the new layouts for other sections, like tribute and leaderboard, too.
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🎨
Add Your Own Custom Sections
Bring your Giving Day page to life with
fully customizable content blocks
powered by a built-in editor (yes, drag-drop-and-edit vibes ✨). Great for shoutouts, sponsor highlights, impact stories, videos — you name it.
📊 Control Donor Ticker Visibility
You now have full control over how the donor ticker appears on your Giving Day page. The ticker updates in real time with recent gifts and key stats, adding social proof without overwhelming the page. This gives you flexibility to balance transparency, privacy, and visual focus based on your campaign style.
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🔃
Reorder Everything, Effortlessly
Drag and drop
any section
on the page — hero, tributes, leaderboards, custom content — to design a flow that works best for your audience. No more one-size-fits-all layout.
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What You Can Expect
  • A new
    “Customize Page”
    tab inside every Giving Day page editor.
  • Real-time preview so you see changes immediately.
  • Fully self-serve experience — make your page yours, no dev time needed.
  • Safe to use
    even during live campaigns
    — you can confidently make visual updates on the fly.
✅ Why This Matters
  • Give your Giving Day a fresh, modern look that
    wows donors
    and builds trust.
  • Stand out from other institutions with
    unique, flex-worthy designs
    .
  • Highlight the stories, content, and visuals that matter most — all while keeping the backend setup unchanged.
This is just the beginning — we’re investing heavily in making Almabase Giving Pages the most beautiful and flexible in the game. More polish and visual upgrades are coming soon.
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