Here’s an archive of updates, newest first, for the Kindful Fundraising add-on for Bloomerang CRM.
Looking for a different product? Read the release notes for Bloomerang CRM, Bloomerang Fundraising, Bloomerang Volunteer, and the Bloomerang Giving Platform.
February 2025
February 6
Features and Enhancements ✨
The Kindful Fundraising add-on for Bloomerang CRM has these changes:
Email receipts for Kindful Fundraising donation payments are now sent by Bloomerang.
You must turn on Automatic Receipting in Bloomerang for Kindful Fundraising donors to receive payment receipts.
These receipt settings in Kindful Fundraising no longer apply: Disable Transaction Success Emails, Email Message Used for Transaction Receipts, and Reply To Email.
If Automatic Receipting is on in Bloomerang, donors receive payment receipts even if you disabled transaction success emails for some or all donation pages in Kindful Fundraising.
July 2024
July 31
Features and Enhancements ✨
The Kindful Fundraising add-on for Bloomerang CRM has these event enhancements:
For orders with only free tickets, you can now click Cancel Tickets to add tickets and attendees back to the remaining amount. Attendees are removed from the Attendees list and .CSV file.
When attendees sign up for an event, the new Skip This Step option clarifies that donors can skip adding a donation.
The Kindful Fundraising add-on for Bloomerang CRM also has these updates:
When you edit a form, your organization's email address now appears in the Notification Email section (for donation pages, donation plugins, and crowdfunding causes) and the Notifications section (for events). To change this email address, edit the email address on the Settings > Organization page in Bloomerang.
You can now select whether to show the thermometer goal amount based on the Kindful donation page or the Bloomerang campaign.
June 2024
June 5
Features and Enhancements ✨
The Events feature has several enhancements.
In the Kindful Fundraising add-on for Bloomerang CRM:
On the Order Summary, you can now click Mark as Refunded for a ticket or additional donation that you refunded in Bloomerang. Mark as Refunded doesn't refund the ticket or donation; you must still refund the ticket or donation in Bloomerang.
After you refund an event ticket or additional donation on an event order in Kindful (or after you click Mark as Refunded in the Kindful Fundraising add-on):
On the Orders list for the event, the Ticket Amount and Donation Amount now show the refund amount. To help you identify refunds in the order list, refunds are now styled yellow with parentheses.
On the Order Summary, refund amounts now appear and are styled yellow with parentheses.
The number of available tickets changes to reflect refunded tickets.
Attendees associated with refunded tickets no longer appear on the Attendees page or in the Attendees .CSV file.
In addition, the Kindful Fundraising add-on for Bloomerang CRM has this change:
For notifications, Kindful Fundraising now uses the organization email address that you enter in Bloomerang.
May 2024
May 22
Features and Enhancements ✨
Events in the Kindful Fundraising add-on for Bloomerang CRM have these enhancements.
On the Orders page:
The Donation Amount now includes only the additional donation and optional donation processing fee.
The Actions button is now named Details.
The Attendees and Ticket Quantity columns are now removed.
May 8
Features and Enhancements ✨
The Kindful Fundraising add-on for Bloomerang CRM has these changes:
Donation and event forms can now be configured to send an email notification to staff at your organization any time a donor submits a form. This option is configured in each form's settings.
The Kindful Fundraising add-on for Bloomerang CRM also has these changes:
CAPTCHA protection on Kindful forms is now upgraded to reCAPTCHA v3. Donors can now submit forms without solving a reCAPTCHA puzzle, unless reCAPTCHA questions whether the person is a real donor. This upgrade increases fraud protection and helps improve conversion rates on donation forms.
On the Fundraising Settings page in the Kindful Fundraising add-on, the CAPTCHA payment attempts setting is now removed.
On the General Settings page in Kindful, the CAPTCHA payment attempts setting is now removed.
April 2024
April 10
Features and Enhancements ✨
The Kindful Fundraising add-on for Bloomerang CRM now supports Google Analytics 4 (GA4). You can now enter a GA4 tag ID in Kindful Fundraising to track how donors interact with your public pages.
February 2024
February 29
Features and Enhancements ✨
The Kindful Fundraising add-on for Bloomerang CRM has these changes:
Minor update to the steps for connecting a QuickBooks Online account to Bloomerang. Subsequent setup steps remain the same.
Donors can now save payment information in their Donor Portal account to speed up checkout for future donations.
December 2023
December 7
Features and Enhancements ✨
Modernize your fundraising and attract new donors with the new PayPal & Venmo add-on. After you enable the add-on:
In Bloomerang, PayPal and Venmo buttons appear on online giving forms. In the Kindful Fundraising add-on for Bloomerang CRM, PayPal and Venmo buttons appear on donation pages, crowdfunding pages, and event pages, and in the donor portal.
Your donors can make one-time donations and pay with any payment method saved in their PayPal or Venmo account.
Bloomerang manages the connection to PayPal for you, which means you don't have to create or manage a PayPal or Venmo account for your organization.
In Bloomerang, receive daily payouts, view and refund transactions, and run reports.
This add-on is available exclusively for customers who use Bloomerang Payments.
November 2023
November 8
Features and Enhancements ✨
In the Kindful Fundraising add-on for Bloomerang CRM, Text to Donate has this enhancement:
If the carrier rejects your phone number registration, you can now see why in Kindful Fundraising. In the Text to Donate settings, the Business Information form shows rejected fields and the reason.
October 2023
October 25
Features and Enhancements ✨
In the Kindful Fundraising add-on for Bloomerang CRM, Text to Donate has these enhancements:
We now email you when the carrier approves or rejects your phone number registration.
In the Text to Donate settings, the status Setup Incomplete now appears if you submit business information but don't select a phone number.
October 3
Features and Enhancements ✨
In the Kindful Fundraising add-on for Bloomerang CRM:
When you set up Text to Donate for the first time, you must now enter business information to start an FCC-required registration process. The Text to Donate page shows you the registration status.
September 2023
September 21
Features and Enhancements ✨
In the the Kindful Fundraising add-on for Bloomerang CRM if your transaction processor is Bloomerang Payments:
You can now accept Apple Pay and Google Pay on donation pages, crowdfunding pages, and event registration forms. Apple Pay and Google Pay are not available for donation plug-ins.
In Bloomerang, you can now select saved Apple Pay or Google Pay payment methods to process one-time donations, recurring donations, and pledges. These payment methods appear if the constituent created a recurring donation through your Kindful Fundraising page or form and paid with Apple Pay or Google Pay.
August 2023
August 10
Features and Enhancements ✨
In the Kindful Fundraising add-on for Bloomerang CRM, campaigns are now known as donation pages:
In the main navigation, and on the Dashboard page, Campaigns is renamed to Donation Pages.
On your main donation page, donors now choose an initiative (a specific donation page) from the new Select an Initiative list.
When you add a crowdfunding cause or Text to Donate keyword, you now select a donation page.
When you create an event or donation plugin, you no longer select a Kindful campaign.
On donation pages and forms, donors can now select Designate Your Donation to choose from a list of Bloomerang funds. When you create a donation page or plugin, you can enable this option and select which funds appear in the list.
June 2023
June 29
Features and Enhancements ✨
The Kindful Fundraising add-on for Bloomerang CRM has these updates:
The Settings > Funds page is now removed.
In the Campaign settings:
The Default Fund field is now removed. You must still map a Bloomerang fund to the campaign.
Several other fields and settings are removed: Short Name, Subcampaigns, Enable Transactions for Subcampaigns Only, External id1 and id2, and Disable Transaction Failure Emails.
June 7
Features and Enhancements ✨
The Kindful Fundraising add-on for Bloomerang CRM has this update:
Kindful Fundraising now uses the organization name that you enter in Bloomerang. The Settings > General Settings page is removed.
May 2023
May 24
Features and Enhancements ✨
The Kindful Fundraising add-on for Bloomerang CRM has these enhancements:
The Settings menu is now reorganized, and some settings are renamed or have moved.
The Fiscal Year End Date and Time Zone settings are removed.
The contact link no longer appears on the donation page footer if you do not enter a Custom Contact Link URL.
May 11
Features and Enhancements ✨
Events in the Kindful Fundraising add-on for Bloomerang CRM have these enhancements:
Attendees automatically sync to Bloomerang as constituents if the ticket buyer enters the constituent's first name, last name, and email address.
If an attendee registers and syncs to Bloomerang as a constituent, an interaction for the event registration appears on the constituent's timeline.
If an attendee checks in, an interaction is added automatically to the constituent's Bloomerang timeline.
If you edit an attendee's contact information, those changes appear automatically in the constituent's Bloomerang profile.
In the event configuration, some attendee information is selected as required, by default.
The Attended checkbox is now named Checked In.
April 2023
April 27
Features and Enhancements ✨
If you have the Kindful Fundraising add-on for Bloomerang CRM, your donors can now create and manage a donor account. Donors can sign in to review their donation history, update profile information, add and manage donations, request a refund, and download a tax summary.
February 2023
February 1
Features and Enhancements ✨
You can now engage mobile donors quickly and easily with Text to Donate, a paid add-on for the Kindful Fundraising add-on for Bloomerang CRM.
September 2022
September 1
Fixes 🔧
We fixed an issue where the Kindful Fundraising add-on for Bloomerang CRM was seeing errors when working with Bloomerang constituents.
August 2022
August 18
Features and Enhancements ✨
We have improved the Kindful Fundraising add-on for Bloomerang CRM in two ways — Crowdfunding details sync to Bloomerang as a note, so you can keep track of your Crowdfunding Causes by reporting in Bloomerang, and the data used to create the dashboard graph in Kindful Fundraising is now supplied directly from Bloomerang, so it's always accurate and in sync with your Bloomerang database.
August 4
Features and Enhancements ✨
We have refreshed the dashboard in the Kindful Fundraising add-on for Bloomerang CRM to provide a better experience while using the add-on.
Recurring donations from Kindful Fundraising are now managed in Bloomerang.
Fixes 🔧
We fixed some bugs with Events in the Kindful Fundraising add-on for Bloomerang CRM.
July 2022
July 20
Features and Enhancements ✨
We have streamlined the donor portal for Kindful Fundraising add-on for Bloomerang CRM to focus on Crowdfunding.
Event registration email receipts now sync to Bloomerang from Kindful Fundraising as interactions.
We have added state and province dropdown menus for Kindful Fundraising events, to help Kindful Fundraising customers enjoy a smoother experience when purchasing tickets.
Fixes 🔧
We fixed an error message bug when syncing non-deductible tax amounts from the Kindful Fundraising add-on for Bloomerang CRM to Bloomerang CRM.
July 1
Features and Enhancements ✨
Transactions in the Kindful Fundraising add-on for Bloomerang CRM will now sync to Bloomerang CRM as interactions, so you can keep track and report on your Kindful Fundraising Tools' activity in Bloomerang.
We also improved the Settings experience in Kindful Fundraising to ensure you have access to pertinent items as a Kindful Fundraising add-on customer.
Fixes 🔧
We fixed some bugs around transactions and non-deductible amounts when they are synced from Kindful Fundraising to Bloomerang CRM and around events.
June 2022
June 6
Features and Enhancements ✨
We have added additional ACH validation tools behind the scenes for the Kindful Fundraising add-on for Bloomerang CRM. This ensures transactions coming in through these tools are valid and will help prevent fraud.
May 2022
May 20
Features and Enhancements ✨
Events in the Kindful Fundraising add-on for Bloomerang CRM will now notify purchasers that there are a limited number of tickets remaining on the public event page, so they will be better informed about making their purchase.
We have added the ability to change the "reply to" field in transactions receipts from Kindful Fundraising.
Fixes 🔧
We have fixed a bug around the Kindful Fundraising add-on for Bloomerang CRM Donation Plugins and internal errors.
April 2022
April 27
Features and Enhancements ✨
Events in the Kindful Fundraising add-on for Bloomerang CRM can now have a maximum ticket quantity set and a ticket availability time window. No need to rush to close an event when your capacity has been met, Kindful Fundraising Tools will stop selling tickets automatically based on your needs.
January 2022
January 13
Features and Enhancements ✨
We've made it easier to deactivate Bloomerang Payments if a user opts out of using the Kindful Fundraising add-on for Bloomerang CRM.
