What's New in Altru
Learn about the latest enhancements in version 5.35 of Altru!
Web form performance improvements
Building on recent enhancements, to provide your patrons with quicker response times and fewer 404 errors, this release includes additional web form performance improvements. Also, caching for calendar date navigation is now in place for all program and event forms.
Updates to TinyMCE HTML editor
This release upgrades Tiny MCE to version 7.5. This improves usability and security for the HTML editor throughout Altru.
Online Giving and Blackbaud Donation Forms
For a full list of enhancements, see What's New in Online Giving.
Automatically close donation forms when a campaign ends
To help you gracefully manage donation forms for fundraising campaigns that end, now you can close a form. Closing a form lets you:
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Set a date and time for the form to stop accepting gifts.
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Show donors a custom message where you can include links to other forms or webpages.
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Avoid broken links or QR codes.
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Continue to view the form's statistics.
For more information, see Close a Donation Form.
Track donation forms with Google Tag Manager
To give you more control in how you manage and track your organization's advertising efforts, donation forms now support Google Tag Manager. To learn more about how to use Google Tag Manager with donation forms, see Track Donation Forms with Google Analytics or Google Tag Manager.
Automatically assign a revenue category to recurring gifts
To save time when posting to the general ledger, you can assign a revenue category from your CRM for recurring gift plans and their payments received through Online Giving. To learn how to set this preference, see Assign a Revenue Category.
Offer donors more designations to choose from on an Optimized Donation Form
To give donors more choices on how your organization uses their gifts, you can add up to 30 designations on an Optimized Donation Form. For more information, see Add Designations to Donation Forms.
Extend Optimized Donation Forms with SKY add-in integrations
Add functionality to your Optimized Donation Forms with SKY add-in integrations from developers and Blackbaud partners. After you connect an add-in to your environment, the add-in appears under Optional fields when you create or edit an Optimized Donation Form. For more information, see SKY Add-ins for Donation Forms.
Improved checkout experience for Standard Donation Forms
To improve the donor giving experience with no scheduled payments downtime, a new dynamic, secure, and PCI v4-compliant checkout is now available for Standard Donation Forms. It lets donors use:
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Google Pay and Apple Pay for their one-time and recurring gifts.
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PayPal and Venmo on fee coverage-enabled forms.
Note: For transactions less than $3,000, donor cover displays to donors using PayPal and Venmo on Complete Cover-enabled forms.
With this new experience, for both new and existing Standard Forms, you select the payment configuration and fee coverage options on the new Payment and fees tab. Also, you can now test Standard Forms in the same way as Optimized Forms.
For more information, see Standard Donation Forms Improved Checkout.
Add designation, appeal, and campaign to donation form URLs
Now, you can add parameters such as a designation, appeal, or campaign to a donation form's URL from the form's Publish tab. Under URL parameters, select Build hyperlink with parameters. To learn how to build the URLs, see Add Parameters to URLs in the UI.
Tip: Need a refresher about features from previous releases? Check out What's Recent.