Archive a live campaign or retire a giving form

This article covers GiveCampus campaign administration. Available controls can vary between the classic and redesigned campaign interfaces.

An online/prelaunch campaign cannot be archived directly. The campaign settings expose an End date. Scheduled finishing handles expired online donor/dollar campaigns; after the campaign actually finishes, use its eligible Archive action. For campaign archiving, check for Advanced Campaign Admin, Crowdfunding Admin, Fundraising Superadmin or Superadmin and campaign access. For form archiving, check for Advanced Form Admin, Fundraising Superadmin or Superadmin and form access. Confirm locks and saved state rather than repeatedly clicking Archive. Review outstanding matches/challenges and the intended donor destination before closing a campaign, because finishing can trigger closeout behavior.

For an eligible giving form, Archive is separate from removing a menu link. The public new-checkout action redirects an archived form through the school Donate route, which can send the visitor to another active GiveCampus campaign or backup form. Therefore archiving one form is not a schoolwide shutdown. Verify all intended public entry points while signed out. Back to Draft is a different operation and is not a universal substitute, especially for standalone/general forms.

Existing recurring subscriptions have their own state and scheduler and are not canceled merely by archiving a form or campaign. No lifecycle change should be described as a refund. If the goal is to stop all new school intake, or use an arbitrary external destination, have support inspect the complete configured paths rather than promise a single archive action accomplishes it.