If donors choose a dedication type on your donation form, they can include a custom message and send it to an email recipient (or recipients) of their choosing! You can also include any custom information you’d like by editing the dedication receipt content. Here are the steps for activating the dedication notification and editing its default content.
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Getting Started
You'll need to have created at least one dedication type in the Dedications area of your form-level control panel before you begin. When you do so, the option to dedicate a donation will appear on your public-facing form.
Navigate to your donation form.
Click Form Settings, Dedications, and then the Settings Tab.
Then toggle on Enable Dedication Notification.
Display Settings
Then, decide where on the form you'd like the dedication option to appear, using the Display Settings.
If a donor dedicates a donation, the following will display on the public-facing form:
Editing Default Content
If you’d like to edit the default content that gets sent out with the dedication notification, you can do that in the Receipts area of your form-level control panel. The dedication notification is located below your standard donation receipt.
Click Edit Receipt to make changes.
You have the same editing capabilities here as you do with your other receipts. The %DedicationMessage% tag should not be removed. The tag populates with the message donors enter on the public-facing form. You can move it to a different location in the body of the receipt, but if you remove it, no message from the donor will be displayed.
The following tags are available for customizing your receipt, as well:
- %Dedication% This includes the dedication type AND the name of the dedicatee. For example: "In honor of John A. Dehuff"
- %DedicationText% This populates with only the name of the dedicatee. For example: "John A. Dehuff"
- %DedicationName% This populates with only the dedication type text. For example: "In honor of"