Publish a Donation Form

To make your form visible for donors immediately, select Publish from a donation forms list.

Alternatively, you may schedule automatically publishing your form from the create or edit donation form processes.

  1. Select a Publication Date:

    • Do not publish this donation form saves the form as a draft.

    • Publish this donation form now publishes the form immediately.

    • Publish this donation form according to the schedule set below sets the date and time to publish the form.

  2. (Optional) Set a Date for Unpublishing the form.

  3. (Optional) In Unpublished URL, enter the full URL or Select the page to display when the form is no longer published.

    Note: This URL overrides the URL set in the global options on this form only.

  4. URL of the First Donation Page provides a link to the published donation form. You must publish the form first to see your form from this link.

    Tip: Copy the donation form URL to paste into emails, newsletters, and websites.

  5. (Optional) Embed a Donate Button provides code that you can paste into a web page to launch this donation form as a Blackbaud Checkout form.

    See Add a Donate button to any web page.

  6. Select Finish.

Unpublish a donation form

Select Unpublish in a donation forms list to hide your form from the public.

Navigating to the URL for an unpublished donation form results in a redirect to the URL you specified scheduling the publication or creating your form.