Thank you for your feedback throughout this year! Our team is dedicated to providing you with new fundraising tools and enhancements to help you raise more for your cause. This year, the team launched some highly anticipated updates to the Qgiv platform to keep you ahead of technology trends and evolving donor expectations and to help make your important work a bit easier. Here are a few of the major highlights from 2022!
More of a video person? Check out the Enhancement Highlights Videos to see them in action!
Donation Forms đź’˛
- Smart Amounts are here! 🎉 By enabling Smart Amounts on your donation form, you can personalize the giving experience for donors with curated donation amounts based on giving trends.
- If you’re using custom Giving Plans with end dates, you can now make the end date a required field.
- Edit the frequency of a recurring gift without re-verifying the payment method.
- You can also edit donors’ dedication and custom field responses for recurring gifts. Edits to the overall gift will carry over to all future installments of the gift.
- Relatedly, when donors update recurring payment methods, the system will now prompt them to connect the new payment method to an existing recurring gift.
- When a donor sets up a new recurring gift to begin billing the same day the gift is created, they’ll now receive two receipts: one to confirm the gift’s creation and another for the gift’s initial billing.
- There’s a new search box for outbound SMS contacts. Users with lots of SMS contacts can now find and edit contacts quickly and easily.
Events 🎫
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A new event experience is available in Events Beta. If you haven’t already, update your event today to attract more attendees and raise more money for your cause at no additional cost! Some of our favorite features of the update include:
- Dedicated event landing pages you can customize to match your event theme.
- The ability to group ticket packages into sections to organize your registration form.
- QR code check-in available with the Giving Essentials package, along with table and seating management!
- Add to Calendar integration for registrants to save event details to their preferred calendar.
- Table and Seating Management for events and auctions is available!! This new feature includes Manual Table Management and Visual Seating Charts, as well as new reporting options for Events and Auctions. We know you'll love it!
Peer-to-Peer 👨🏻‍🤝‍👨🏻
- The peer-to-peer registration process received an update! The redesigned registration system offers a modern aesthetic and feature enhancements.
- The redesigned peer-to-peer registration also allows primary registrants to manage the fundraising pages of additional registrants with an easy-to-use “Switch Profiles” prompt in the Fundraising Dashboard. Great for managing accounts for minors!
- Purchases from the peer-to-peer store can now be credited to teams and individual participants.
Auctions âś‹
- You can now sort the auction attendees table in the Virtual Terminal by attendee’s first or last name.
- Can't remember whether you uploaded an image for an auction item? The Manage Items table now includes a column for images so you can quickly see which images you've added.
- You can now change the "Invite a Guest" wording on the Registration Fields page. Head over to the Auction Event Builder to start customizing!
- If your organization opts to use a live or pen and paper format for auction bidding in lieu of web or app-based bidding, you can now hide prompts for bidders to download Givi.
- There’s a new auction onboarding process that no longer requires ticket codes to enter auctions. We also introduced a way for bidders to preview items in Givi without being logged in!
Reporting & Notifications đź“Š
- Customizable dashboards are available to all organizations.
- Resend a refund receipt from the transaction details page.
- Customize receipt content based on donor’s country.
- If you offer Apple Pay as a payment method, the Transaction Details page will now show “Apple Pay” as the payment type for applicable transactions.
- You can now filter your reports by form tags.
- There’s a “Donated To” line for the admin notification for a store purchase when store purchases are included in event goals.
- There’s a new Thermometer Report, which you can download from the Peer-to-Peer dashboard. With this report, you can review which transactions should be included in event thermometers, based on the event’s settings.
- The new auction Bidding Activity Report displays all the bids placed in the system, including the name of the bidder who placed each bid and the status of the bid at the time the report is run.
- The Auction Attendees report and the Auction Inventory report now include a sortable Bids column, which reflects each attendee’s or item’s bidding activity. You can also use Bidding Activity filter to those reports.
- In case you missed it, Mastercard has published new rules for recurring payments. To stay compliant and ensure recurring payments are transparent for your donors, we added a new recurring notification email.
Integrations đź”—
- Exciting news for Virtuous users! Qgiv now integrates directly with Virtuous. If you have the Giving Essentials package, you can add the Virtuous integration today from the Service Integrations area of your Qgiv account.
- DonorPerfect users! You can now set your Gift Receipting Preference and Acknowledgement Preference in the integration’s default values and in custom mappings. We also now support optional mappings for “Class” if you’re using Quickbooks too!
- Great news for Salesforce users! The Salesforce integration now supports soft credits for peer-to-peer fundraisers.
Resources and Education 🏫
- The Qgiv Help Desk was redesigned to help you find the information you need.
- New Quick-Start Guides are available to help you and your new team members quickly set up an event or form.
- The Qgiv User Community is live! 🎉 Connect with your peers, exchange fundraising ideas, and explore new ways to use Qgiv. You can access the Community via a link in your Qgiv account and from the home page of the Help Desk.
- The Nonprofit Resource Center has lots of new eBooks and templates to take your fundraising to the next level!