Overview:

If your organization needs a turn-key iMIS fundraising for the web then look no further. eDonations consulting ware utilizes will allow both your members and non-members to donate online. This functionality was designed as a full equipped seamless eSeries module. This implementation allows for users to split gifts among multiple funds in iMIS. It supports eSeries’ mix basket shopping cart allowing your web users to pay dues, make a donation, buy a product, and pay for a meeting all in one transaction.

eDonation Interface:

Both the gift amounts and the funds displayed within the interface are data driven from within your iMIS database. Your organization can modify both the headers and footers at per campaign and appeal and also at the global donations level.

Creating eDonations Links for a specific Campaign and Appeal

The donations module is configured to default to a default campaigns and appeal within iMIS but is also designed to be called from links anywhere on the web, email blasts, or Word merges for a specific campaign and appeal. Doing this will raise the success of your fundraising campaign allowing you to target specific market segments by allowing you to market affectively by tying your web donations into your campaign.

Example link would be: http://iwann-wxp/donations/source/donations/e-Donations.cfm?Appeal=PRESA...

This example would take a user to the donations page for a campaign with an appeal code of ‘PRESAP’ and a CAMPAIGN code of ‘PRES CAMP’ provided they existed within iMIS instead of displaying the default donations campaign and appeal.

Integrated Shopping Experience

The integrated shopping experience allows users to only have to make one credit card charge for all items with in their cart. After Verisign accepts the payment the user will redirected to a page that will display the details of each of the items in their cart that has been processes. Then just like in standard eSeries the user provided they have a valid e-mail address in the system will be sent a confirmation email detailing their donation along with all of the other items within the cart. In addition the donations functionality can also email all donations to an internal donations coordinator and has build in functionality for creating individualized thank you letters.

Setting Up Amounts in iMIS

A standard iMIS lookup/validation table is used for this. To insert/edit this lookup/validation table into iMIS navigate to Customers-->Set up tables-->General lookup validation. See if a table DONATIONAMOUNTS exists in the table drop down. If not create a new table with this table name. The description is what is displayed on the web. The expansion determines the order the amount will appear in the e-Donations page. The description will be the value displayed for the donation amounts on the web and the amount will be order by the values in the expansion field in iMIS. An example of this setup is:

In this example the $1000 donation amount with appear first in the e-Donations page.

Setting Up Web Distribution Funds in iMIS

The only distributions that will appear on the web are those that are those that start with WWW in the code. The code is never displayed as the title is always used in the interface for displaying the distribution. The description is used to determine the order of the current distribution. The setup distributions navigate to Fund Raising-->Set up tables-->Distributions and Premiums. The description will be the value displayed for the distribution on the web and the distributions will be order by the values in the title field in iMIS.