What's New in Altru

Learn about the latest enhancements in version 5.35 of 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.

Online Giving and Blackbaud Donation Forms

For a full list of enhancements, see What's New in Online Giving.

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.

Tip: Need a refresher about features from previous releases? Check out What's Recent.