Offline Donations for a Team Fundraiser
If a donation is not received online for a Team Fundraiser, the gift is called an offline donation. For example, a cash or check gift is an offline donation. Offline donations can be added for a Team Fundraiser in Blackbaud NetCommunity in two ways.
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If you select Allow Offline Donation Entry in Step 2: Fundraiser Options, a participant clicks the Enter Offline Gifts link on the participant dashboard page to add the offline donation. |
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If you do not select this checkbox, a View Offline Gifts link appears on the participant dashboard. Participants click the link to view offline gifts only. Offline gifts cannot be added from the View Offline Gifts link. |
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The Raiser's Edge user enters the offline donation for the Team Fundraiser in The Raiser's Edge. |
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When The Raiser's Edge user enters an offline donation in The Raiser's Edge for a Fundraiser, Team Fundraising reflects the gift in the Fundraiser Dashboard, Report (Fundraiser), and other applicable areas of Team Fundraising such as a Donor List Fundraiser Page Element part. |
Note: You should not link an offline donation to an event registration fee. If you do so, the gift will not appear online in the Fundraiser Dashboard, Report (Fundraiser), or other applicable areas of Team Fundraising such as a Donor List Fundraiser Page Element part.
When an offline gift has these conditions in The Raiser's Edge, the gift is included in Blackbaud NetCommunity.
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The Raiser’s Edge gift fund must match the Team Fundraising fund. |
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The Raiser's Edge gift type must be Cash or Pledge. |
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The Raiser's Edge gift must have one or more Team Fundraising solicitors associated with it. |
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The gift does not have a NetCommunity Page gift attribute. This attribute downloads from Blackbaud NetCommunity. |
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The Raiser's Edge gift can have a Blackbaud NetCommunityComments gift attribute. The comment appears on the Donor List for a Fundraiser Page Element. |
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The Raiser's Edge gift can be marked Anonymous. |
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When you edit an offline gift amount in The Raiser's Edge, the updated gift amount appears on the website. To view the updated amount, the amount must have been edited in the Solicitors field on the gift record in The Raiser's Edge. |
Note: For offline pledges entered in The Raiser's Edge, the pledge amount appears until a payment is applied to the pledge. After a payment is applied, the pledge payments display on the Fundraiser, not the original pledge amount. In addition, the Fundraiser includes online payments for online pledges; it does not include payments entered in The Raiser's Edge for online pledges.
When you download donations, offline donations download to The Raiser's Edge as Pledge gift records with one installment. When your organization receives the cash or check payment, the data entry person can create a Cash payment for the pledge in The Raiser's Edge.
For information about downloading donations, see Donations. For information about gifts in The Raiser's Edge, see The Raiser's Edge Gift Records Guide.