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Enable Fundraising in Education

Enable Fundraising in Education

To use Fundraising in your org, turn on Fundraising.

Required Editions

REQUIRED EDITIONS
Available in: Lightning Experience

Available in: Enterprise, Performance, Unlimited, and Developer Editions with Education Cloud

User Permissions Needed  
To enable Fundraising:

Modified Education Cloud Full Access permission set

Note
Note Try out Fundraising in a sandbox before turning it on in your Salesforce org. After you turn on Fundraising, you can't turn it off.
  1. From Setup, in the Quick Find box, enter Fundraising, and then select Fundraising Settings.
  2. Turn on Fundraising.

Configure Fundraising Settings in Education

After you turn on Fundraising, configure general Fundraising settings for extension day and transaction counts, gift entry, and donor matching.

User Permissions Needed  
To configure Fundraising settings:

Modified Education Cloud Full Access permission set

  1. In Setup, search for Fundraising, and select Fundraising Settings.
  2. In Installment Extension Day Count, enter how many days before or after a due date an unpaid gift commitment transaction is marked as a new installment.
    An unpaid transaction within this grace period is considered a gift transaction.
    Important
    Important We don't recommend setting this count to zero because it shrinks the transaction-to-installment matching window down to only one exact date. An exact date matching window can incorrectly set unpaid gifts as lapsed.
  3. In Lapsed Unpaid Transaction Count, specify the number of sequentially unpaid installments that changes the gift commitment status to Lapsed.
    If the Unpaid Transaction Count is set to zero, then the status doesn't update.
  4. In Failing Transaction Count, specify the number of sequentially failed installments that changes the gift commitment status to Failing.
    If the Failing Transaction Count is set to zero, then the status doesn't update.
  5. To autocreate the next transaction in a recurring schedule, select Create Recurring Schedule Transaction.
    If you decline to turn on this setting, always manually create the next transaction in recurring schedules.
  6. To close a recurring commitment when it has no ongoing or future schedule and no unpaid transactions, select Auto Close Recurring Commitment.
    The gift commitment auto-closes when the start date and end date on the schedule has passed.
  7. To use enhanced concurrent gift commitment processing, turn on NextGen Commitment Processing. For more information, see Schedule a Gift Commitment Batch Processing Job in Nonprofit.
  8. To set a field to use as the external ID for donor lookup during gift entry, select the custom field from the External ID picklist.
    By default, the donor name is used for the lookup. When a unique external ID matches an existing Account record, donor lookup uses the external ID and donor name.
  9. To turn on donor matching for the Business Process API, in the Donor Matching Method list, select Duplicate Management Rules.
  10. For a flexible table format for gift entry, in Setup, search for Fundraising, select Gift Entry, and turn on Gift Entry Grid.
  11. Save your changes.
 
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