Donation Form Tribute

With the Honor/Memorial Tracking module, you can give donors an opportunity to dedicate their gift to a person or cause on donation forms. To add Tribute, move it from Gift information in the Form designer to a location on the form.

Note: To help you track gifts given in tribute, the form checks whether the donor, honoree, and acknowledgee have existing records. For more information, see Automatic Tribute Matching.

Under Conditions, you can:

  • Select whether a tribute is required to make a gift on the form and the text that displays when it's optional.

  • Select the tribute types available on the form.

    Note: In the database view, you can add tribute types in Tables under Configuration.

Recipients are also known as acknowledgees in the database view and web view. They are individuals — such as the honoree or someone close to the honoree — donors choose to notify about their gifts. Under Notifications, select how you will notify recipients.

  • If you intend to send mail or email, select Send mail and email to display address and email fields to enable donors to enter recipient addresses.

    Note: You can choose to make recipient email optional and change the notification checkbox label to indicate how you will communicate with them.

    Tip: To view the recipient's email, under Tributes on the gift record, select the acknowledgee.

  • If you only intend send mail, select Send mail to display address fields to enable donors to enter recipient addresses.

    Note: You can change the notification label to reflect what you will send to recipients, such as a card or letter.

  • If you don't plan to notify recipients or you prefer not to collect address information, select No notifications.

Under Labels, you can change several field labels on the form.