Donors often want to make their donations anonymously or on behalf of someone other than themselves.

Heretofore, if you wanted to prompt donors, you'd create a couple custom order fields on that donation ask. The setup is cumbersome, the data a bit nonstandard, and it didn't work seamlessly with CRMs and other 3rd party integrations.

These are common fields that go along with donations, so we added them as standard options. Now they are easier to set up and feed more seamlessly into the post-donation tasks you have, like how to list people where you thank people and any scheduled and automatic processes you have later on.

Plus, we can make it more seamless for the donor.

Enabling this is very easy - just go to your donation campaign in the Elevent Back office. You'll see 2 new options - one to allow anonymous donations, the other to enable tributes/acknowledgements.

Flip those to Yes and you're in business.

These options show everywhere: Online in both widgets and on goelevent.com; also in the Box office.

You'll see the data collected in both Order Details and Customer Details, and in reports like the Donation Customers report. This data also gets spit it in the Elevent API for integrations

Note: At time of launch, the Elevent for Salesforce app is not yet picking up these inputs. This is coming very soon--in the next update in the next several weeks. You may want to continue with Custom Order Fields until we add support for that in the Salesforce app.

Learn more about Recognizing and Acknowledging Donors here.