Post URL in Donations API incorrect?

Awakash Bodiwala

I received a 'Not Found' 404 error after entering the URL below into the <form method=""> field:

Post URL

Use this method to post data to your organization's secure URL, which is usually:

https://secure2.convio.net/organization/site/CRDonationAPI

where organization is your organization's unique identifier in the Convio system.

Is there another URL I should be using for my organization?

Sally Heaven

The post URL in the documentation is just a sample, the organization should be your Convio-powered pages' shortname. So if you look at a donation page from your site, like for example if my site's shortname was sally, then the URL would look like this:

https://secure2.convio.net/sally/site/Donation2...

You should replace organization with whatever shows up for your Convio pages.

So that should be your target URL. Hope I understood your question correctly.

Awakash Bodiwala

Sally Heaven:

The post URL in the documentation is just a sample, the organization should be your Convio-powered pages' shortname. So if you look at a donation page from your site, like for example if my site's shortname was sally, then the URL would look like this:

https://secure2.convio.net/sally/site/Donation2...

You should replace organization with whatever shows up for your Convio pages.

So that should be your target URL. Hope I understood your question correctly.

Hey Sally,

I've tried what you've stated; sorry if I didn't explain correctly. I'm wondering if Convio didn't set us up with the Donation API yet? I did use:

, but now wondering if anything else is needed within the form.

I've entered the api_key, v (version), method, response_format, validate, form_id, level_id as hidden form fields; maybe there another parameter I might be missing?

Jeff Mills

Awakash Bodiwala:

Hey Sally,

I've tried what you've stated; sorry if I didn't explain correctly. I'm wondering if Convio didn't set us up with the Donation API yet? I did use:

, but now wondering if anything else is needed within the form.

I've entered the api_key, v (version), method, response_format, validate, form_id, level_id as hidden form fields; maybe there another parameter I might be missing?

Sorry about the confusion, but ACLU doesn't have the same secure domain that almost all other Convio clients use (the secure2.convio.net domain). ACLU has the "secure.aclu.org" domain set up for the Convio powered secure pages (I found this by navigating to one of your donation forms), so your donation API URL is "".

Awakash Bodiwala

JeffMills :

Sorry about the confusion, but ACLU doesn't have the same secure domain that almost all other Convio clients use (the secure2.convio.net domain). ACLU has the "secure.aclu.org" domain set up for the Convio powered secure pages (I found this by navigating to one of your donation forms), so your donation API URL is "".

Hey Jeff,

Thanks so much! This is what I was planning on doing but was a little skeptical. It's hitting the server successfully now.