We update the fundraising platform biweekly. Keep reading for a selection of the new features, enhancements, and bug fixes in the latest update.
Features and Enhancements ✨
Self-Service Participant Imports for Peer-to-Peer Campaigns
You can now bulk-import your peer-to-peer participants directly in Bloomerang Fundraising yourself. Migrate active events, or easily re-register the same participants annually (for example, schools registering their students each year).
Any admin with permissions to manage constituents can use the self-service import feature.
Self-service imports create new participants and update existing participants without creating duplicates.
On the Participant Import page, you can download the sample .CSV template from the import page to review the columns included in the import.
You can review a preview of the import before completing it. Bloomerang marks potential import issues so you can fix errors proactively or choose to import validated rows only.
Review post-import summaries that show how many participants were created, updated, and skipped. When rows are skipped, download a Rows to Fix report of just those rows to correct and re-import.
Redirects for Closed Forms
You can now redirect visitors who try to view a closed donation form, or a closed or ended auction. For example, send them to your current giving form, homepage, or a thank-you page so they always have a path to support your mission. Visitors are redirected automatically and never see the closed form.
Standard donation forms: In the general settings for your form, turn on Redirect Visitors When This Form is Closed and enter a redirect URL.
Auctions: In the settings for your auction, turn on Redirect Visitors When This Auction is Closed or Has Ended. You can select Redirect Closed Auctions, Redirect Auctions That Have Ended, or both, and enter a redirect URL.
Fixes 🛠️
Donations submitted through the legacy transaction processor (Worldpay) now successfully send a receipt upon gift completion.
On the donation Confirmation and Receipt page, the semiannual recurring frequency now displays consistently as “Semiannually” and honors any custom frequency label your organization sets in the Form Builder, so the label a donor sees at checkout carries through to the confirmation and receipt. This applies to both peer-to-peer and year-round donation forms.
For standard events, event-wide custom fields that belong to a field group now appear once on registrant receipts and admin notifications instead of twice, and the duplicate entries no longer carry through to exports and reports.
Participant fundraising pages now load correctly instead of showing a blank page when a welcome quest is enabled but its steps are inactive.
When you edit a donation on a disabled peer-to-peer campaign and change who the donation is credited to, the participant search now returns results instead of loading indefinitely.
On peer-to-peer forms, a customized heading for the donor privacy options now saves and appears on the live form.