Capturing RE Appeal and Package Codes from LO

Joshua Bekerman bCLO bCRE · April 2017

Greetings! Anyone out there capturing Raiser's Edge gift appeal and package codes through an LO donation form, other than cross references? We send email solicitations (similiar to direct mail) and need to track which email the donor responded to (appeal code in RE). We used to do this in NetCommunity using a source code in the URL (ex.: donate.orgname.org/source=Dec2017b) and the form would set the source field to that source code, which would then come over to RE as the gift appeal code. The problem now that we are using LO is that there isn't a source code field on the form. There is the source and subsource but that is linked to the donation form itself. Seems like we would need to create a separate form for each email solicitation we send and direct the donor to that specific form. We are using a custom WordPress donation form that links to an LO form, perhaps there is a custom LO field that we can use that would come over to RE as a gift attribute (if not appeal and package)?

Thanks,

Josh

Brian Mucha · April 2017

You could add an unused field to your form, hidden with CSS, and then set that field with a URL Setter.

https://www.blackbaud.com/support/howto/coveo/luminate-online/Subsystems/donation_management/Content/Concepts/Admin_Online_Giving_Management_DonationForms_HiddenInputs.html

Just choose one like Premium ID that you never use, but does sync - which will depend on who's sync you are using.

http://mydomain.org/site/Donation2?df_id=123456&mfc_pref=T&123456.donation=form1&set.PremiumID=YOURCODE

You could instead go with a custom field if your sync can move it to RE. Pretty sure OMatic can, but not sure about RELO.

http://mydomain.org/site/Donation2?df_id=123456&mfc_pref=T&123456.donation=form1&set.custom.Field_Label=YOURCODE

Capturing RE Appeal and Package Codes from LO

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