When your honorees are hamsters...

John Demarce 2

...it doesn't make sense to add them to the database as constituents.  No joke, this is a real issue when working at an animal shelter   Many of the donations we receive are in honor or memory of pets.  



Is there a way to export acknowledgee addresses without setting them up as Tributes, aside from clicking each honor/memory donation and copy/pasting them out one by one?  The spreadsheet produced by the "Export Selected" button currently exports everything but acknowledgee info.

Julie Gibson

For several clients, we use Gift Attribute and/or Comments field instead of the acknowledgee element of the tribute and in some cases in lieu of the tribute section altogether. 

Julie Gibson

Julie Gibson:

For several clients, we use Gift Attribute and/or Comments field instead of the acknowledgee element of the tribute and in some cases in lieu of the tribute section altogether. 

Example page/form is https://www.rettsyndrome.org/get-involved/donate, where the Tribute type and name fields are used, but then gift attributes are incorporated and moved via js to collect acknowledgee information.

Julie Gibson

To clarify, that form page was BBNC. I'm sorry for any confusion.


OEX example with comments field is https://hamiltonfamilycenter.org/get-involved/give-today/, and use of gift attribute would be similar.  You can move the attributes in position on the form inherently, without js. 

Sunshine Reinken Watson

I'm sorry I don't have an answer and I know it wasn't a joke, but I have to say this question made my day! 

Steph Williams

Julie Gibson:

For several clients, we use Gift Attribute and/or Comments field instead of the acknowledgee element of the tribute and in some cases in lieu of the tribute section altogether. 

This. I would use a gift attribute instead of the tribute function (which causes issues anyway for us). We do that for a few of our run/walks to collect sponsoring pledge info.


And thanks for the laugh today