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The ability for donors to cover the payment processing fee has been expanded to digital wallets (Apple Pay and Google Pay).
This adds to cover-the-fee functionality already available for payments made by credit/debit card, PayPal/Venmo (except on Event Ticketing pages) and bank/ACH transfer. Learn how donors can cover third-party transaction fees on donations made through Give Lively.Line breaks and other formatting appear as desired on Campaign Page descriptions.
For a short period, the text in the published “Page description” on some Campaign Pages appeared as an unformatted one-paragraph block of text. Learn how to build a Campaign Page and edit the “Page description” field. On mobile devices, clicking on the
Donate now
button of a Branded Donation Widgets once again auto-scrolls to the donation form.
For a short time, on mobile devices only, donors had to manually scroll to the donation form further down the page. Learn how to use embeddable widgets to collect donations on your website. We've added a
Payment Processing
page to the Nonprofit Admin Portal.
It is devoted only to payment processor integrations. At present the page includes Stripe and PayPal (moved from the Integrations
page), but will eventually expand to cover Shift4. Get an overview of the Nonprofit Admin Portal.
Community Office Hours are a new weekly resource for Give Lively members to get personalized help.
Come to Community Office Hours for:
- Expert advice about campaign setup, fundraising strategies and marketing/design tips
- Creative and effective ways to use multiple digital fundraising tools for seamless giving
- Tips to make your life easier in the Nonprofit Admin Portal
- Our best answers to questions about maximizing your fundraising efforts
- Insight from fellow nonprofits
For a short time, some donor names and email addresses were missing from the Custom Questions Report of some nonprofits.
All data is now appearing where it should and we added any previously missing information. Learn how to ask custom questions on donation payment forms. Due to new laws, check disbursements of Giving Basket donations are now sent for any positive amount (even $0.01) received in a given month.
As always, checks are mailed within 30 days of the close of the month in which donations were made. There is no change to direct deposits, since there was never a minimum threshold. Learn how long it takes to receive donations made through the Giving Basket.Team Fundraising pages are the latest product to be supported by our second-generation payment form.
This is part of the gradual transition to a payment form aligned with our upgraded system. Learn more about our new payment form and its features.To assist donors who file U.S. taxes, we have arranged easy and secure access to a personalized summary of the donations they made to nonprofits that used our fundraising platform in 2023.
This was done in compliance with U.S. federal tax law. All Give Lively member nonprofits will soon be advised of this so that they can support their donors’ tax needs. Donor tax summaries (as well as individual donation receipts) are located in the Give Lively User Portal. Read what and where the Give Lively User Portal is and how donors can find their annual summary of donations.
Weblinks in the descriptions on Branded Donation Widgets once again open correctly.
A bug briefly blocked the in-text link functionality. Learn how to use embeddable widgets to collect donations on your website. Load More
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