Soliciting Gifts in GC Events

Offer your constituents the opportunity to make additional donations during registration or from the event page.

How it works:

Keep in mind: 

• Event registrants who make a gift within the registration flow will see their event costs broken out separately from their donation but will only need to complete their payment information once. 
• For gifts made during the registration flow, event revenue and donations will be processed as two separate transactions and event registrants who choose to make a gift during the registration process will receive a separate donation receipt in addition to the event confirmation email. 
• If desired, administrators can configure a separate Stripe or PayPal account for event revenue; outright donations will always be deposited into the primary Stripe / PayPal account for online giving. 

How to enable gift solicitation: 

• Gift solicitation can be enabled on an event-by-event basis via the Gifts section of your event settings.
• To enable gift solicitation, select a campaign or giving form to which the gifts will be attributed.
  • If you choose to attribute donations to a Social Fundraising campaign, any gifts coming in from your event to that campaign will be treated like any other gift to that campaign. The donor’s gift will count toward campaign goals, the donor’s name will show up on the donor roll and in leaderboards, and the donation will count toward your GC Social Fundraising subscription. 
  • If you choose to attribute donations to a Giving Form, the gift will count toward your GC Giving Form subscription. If you have a prepaid payment processing bundle, the donation will count toward that bundle.

• Gift Solicitation in Registration Flow: Check this box to enable gift solicitation in the registration flow.
  • Registrants adding a gift to their event registration costs will only have to enter their payment information once, while two separate transactions occur in the background: one for the event costs, one for the gift. 
  • In addition to the event confirmation email, registrants who add a gift as part of the registration flow will also receive the active email template for the giving form or social fundraising campaign selected.
  • Designation Settings: 
    • Select a single designation for this event: All gifts made during the registration flow will be assigned the same designation selected in this field. Donors cannot view the designation selected, change the designation selected, or add additional designations.
    • Allow donors to designate gifts themselves: Donors will see the designations available within this event’s associated social fundraising campaign or giving form and can split their gift as many ways as the associated campaign or giving form allows. 
    • Do not designate gifts made in the registration flow: Donors will not be shown the option to designate their gift and no designation will be assigned to gifts made during the registration flow.
  • Donation text header: This text appears beneath the event purchase summary.
  • Include suggested giving amounts: Check this box to display up to three ask amount buttons.

• Additional Gifts: Check this box to solicit additional gifts via the event landing page and registration overview pages.
  • Define the donation text header and button text in the fields provided.
  • The donation text header will only appear above the button on the overview page shown to event registrants after their registration is submitted.
  • Constituents who click this button will be brought directly to the giving form or social fundraising campaign associated with this event.