Thermometer for donation count goal?

Gaby Gollub

Has anyone put a thermometer on a LO donation form (not in TeamRaiser) to show the number of donations on that form compared to a goal? Is this possible? Any examples and tips are welcome!


thanks very much,

Gaby Gollub

World Wildlife Fund

Brian Mucha

You can do gift amount using the Campaign thermos, just put the form in it's own campaign. I can't think of a way to do it for donation count though. There isn't an S-Tag or API call to get that as far as I know.

Kerrie Goughnour

We do this a lot to show progress to goal, however I'm not sure how to add an actual donation count. Just make sure to put the donation form(s) in the same campaign, and then use the "Component Type" to insert a progress meter. It's very basic, but it works! Here's a sample of what we've done: http://www.bethematchfoundation.org/site/Donation2?df_id=13735&mfc_pref=T&13735.donation=form1

Brian Mucha

Nice.


Kerrie, I see you use the Checking payment option. Do you find many people using that?

Gaby Gollub

Thanks for your responses! And thanks for sharing that form, Kerrie. That's awesome.


The thermometer I'm hoping to create is pretty similar to what's on this form:

https://secure.nokidhungry.org/site/Donation2?df_id=13805&13805.donation=form1


I see the JS behind this but I don't see where the actual count of members/donors is coming from. Any ideas?


Thanks for your help,

Gaby

Brian Mucha

I'm guessing this is using a group, and the S450 tag - which was revealed in this thread:


https://community.blackbaud.com/forums/viewtopic/3/5193?post_id=5193#p5193


On each donation tier you can configure a group to add the donor to. Just set all the tiers to add to the same group, you can then use the 450 tag to return the count.


BUT. The use of the word 'members' is telling. If someone donates twice, they will still only be a member of the group once. So you aren't really reporting on 'donations', but rather on unique donors.


Another issue with this approach is that the number returned is cached and will only be accurate when the group is rebuilt (or Refresh Summary is clicked on the Group Information tab.) The most an automatic rebuild can happen is once a day, I believe.


NOTE: I don't think you could make this group rebuildable directly. But you CAN make a rebuildable group using Query. Just define that rebuildable group as All Members of the form's donor group. (The rebuildable group is just a 'mirror' of the donor group.)

Gaby Gollub

Thanks for sharing all of this. I'm not sure I follow it all but I will do some exploring and see what I can do!


Any more tips are welcome.


Thanks,

Gaby

Kerrie Goughnour

Brian Mucha:

Nice.


Kerrie, I see you use the Checking payment option. Do you find many people using that?

Not really. At this point, it's only about 4-5% of our total gifts. We are in the process or re-evaluating it now, and also adding PayPal as an option..

Brian Mucha

Not really. At this point, it's only about 4-5% of our total gifts.

Wow, 5% is not that bad. Considering the drop-off with expired card numbers that 5% could add up over time.

Sam Granato

Do what Brian mentioned:  # of Donations: [[S450:group#:COUNT]] - the count rebuilds a few times a day btw.

Gaby Gollub

Yes, that did it. Thanks for providing this snippet!