Gifts and Registrations from Luminate Online

When new donations are accepted through Luminate Online, you can download the gift information from the Luminate Online page in Raiser's Edge.

After you download gifts from Luminate Online into Raiser's Edge, you can review the gift information for each donation that is to be processed, such as amount, date, and the fund to which the donation will be applied. After you process the information, it is put into a gift batch to be committed to your database.

Note: When gifts transfer from Luminate Online into Raiser's Edge, only the last four digits and the expiration date of credit cards pass.

You can only accept gifts through Luminate Online for constituents that already exist in Raiser's Edge. If you receive a donation through Luminate Online from a new constituent, you must first download the new constituent information into Raiser's Edge before you can process the gift. For information about how to download constituent information from Luminate Online into Raiser's Edge, see Constituent Information from Luminate Online.

When you download a first-time recurring gift from Luminate Online into Raiser's Edge, the first gift is processed. The recurring gift and first payment display as one transaction in the plug in. The gift type will list as recurring gift in the batch. When the batch is committed, the recurring gift and first payment will display in the constituent record. When subsequent payments are processed in Luminate Online, the gift type will display as cash and will link to the recurring gift as a payment when the batch is committed.

When you download event registrations from Luminate Online into Raiser's Edge, they process as cash gifts. If the registration has no cost associated and the event is linked from Luminate Online and Raiser's Edge, then the free registration will process. On the Attributes tab of the gift record, the event name from Luminate Online appears.

Before you begin to download gifts from Luminate Online, review the default batch options and make changes as necessary, such as to specify batch numbers.