What's New in Altru

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.

This release upgrades Tiny MCE to version 7.5. This improves usability and security for the HTML editor throughout Altru.

To help you gracefully manage donation forms for fundraising campaigns that end, now you can close a form. Closing a form lets you:

• Set a date and time for the form to stop accepting gifts.

• Show donors a custom message where you can include links to other forms or webpages.

• Avoid broken links or QR codes.

• Continue to view the form's statistics.

For more information, see Close a Donation Form.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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:

• Google Pay and Apple Pay for their one-time and recurring gifts.

• 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.

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.