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Change Log

Record of new features, updates, and fixes made over time.

March 13th, 2012

• FEATURE: Donation Levels – Once a level is selected, a supporter is prompted with an opportunity to add additional funds beyond that set with the level.
• FEATURE: Donation landing, checkout and share pages are now presented with a responsive design that adapts to mobile devices to maximize their real estate and improve their donation experience.
• FEATURE: Donate Checkout – Donation total is now displayed on checkout page for confirmation.
• FEATURE: Email Receipts – Donation date is displayed.
• FEATURE: Custom Fields – Replaced delete feature with a hide.
• FEATURE: Display API Tokens for campaigns in Publishing Settings tab.
• BETA UPDATE: Giving Opportunities – Removed beta access to all Giving Opportunity related features. They are now available to all accounts.

November 3rd, 2011

• FEATURE: Time Zone – Added support for an account to set their time zone. This will impact the display of donation date and times.

August 24, 2011

• FEATURE: Custom Fields – Add custom fields to campaigns to collect additional data at time of donation. Data can be accessed via exportable donation logs.
• FEATURE: Customizable donation minimum – The minimum donation value allowed can been increased from $5 USD.

June 17th, 2011

• BETA FEATURE: Giving Opportunities – These are campaigns within campaigns being used for individual and team based fundraising.
• BETA FEATURE: Giving Opportunities API – Collection of API methods related to a campaign’s Giving Opportunities.
• BETA FEATURE: Donation Log API – New API method for donation logs allowing for creating of recent donor lists.

April 18th, 2011

• FEATURE: Customizable campaign donation receipt email feature.
• FIX: Updated CDN assets to use server over https protocol to address some security messages on certain browsers.

April 12th, 2011

• FIX: Addressed an issue with use of PayPal Pro and Internet Explorer browser that resulted in an error.

March 30, 2011

• FEATURE: Customizable donation levels can be added to your campaigns to allow you offer set options for a donor to choose from.

January 14, 2010

• FEATURE: Add an image and YouTube video to a campaign to enhance the storytelling capability of a campaign widget and the donation landing page.
• UPDATE: Made design improvements to the look and feel of campaign widgets and the donation landing page.

November 3rd, 2010

• FEATURE: Donation log tab added to campaign area to showcase specific donor activity
• FEATURE: Added ability to create and manage offline donations

September 21st, 2010

• FEATURE: Added toggle to show/hide the display campaign target and current donation totals in both the widget and initial donation page.

September 3rd, 2010

• UPDATE: Revised Facebook application to adhere to Facebook’s revised tab width on pages to 520px.

August 16th, 2010

• UPDATE: Revised our Twitter integration to use oauth and @Anywhere to stay up to date with Twitter’s technology direction.

April 7, 2010

• UPDATE: Made some style sheet tweaks to donation pages for iPad/iPhone mobile safari.

March 19, 2010

• FEATURE: Share feature is now available without a donation. Share is now available directly from widget as a button next to give. Share URL has been added to campaign API calls. ** Shares without donation are tracked as part of campaign tracking and are displayed in daily and aggregate totals.
• UPDATE: Added campaign description to initial campaign donation page.

December 18, 2009

• FEATURE: Included campaign Givlnk in XML and JSON Specific Campaign API call.

December 16, 2009

• UPDATE: Updated tour page to detail tools and features to reflect recent updates.
• UPDATE: Updated pricing model. More information available in blog post.

December 9, 2009

• FEATURE: Added color picker for campaign publishing customizations to help select color hex values.
• FIX: Change to store Givlnk referrer information when clicked.

December 8, 2009

• FEATURE: Givlnk provided for each campaign that links to that campaigns donation pages. More information is available in blog post.
• UPDATE: Revised campaign publishing setup page to include Givlnk and provide some small interface improvements.
• UPDATE: Revised Facebook wall post approach to use stream publish instead of the template method which Facebook will not longer be supporting.

December 2, 2009

• FEATURE: Added Twitter sharing to post donation share screen with an editable default tweet that includes the name of the campaign, a dynamic Givlnk that links to the page where the sharer made a donation, and a campaign hashtag if one is available. More information is available in blog post.
• FEATURE: Revised campaign create and edit screens to include a campaign hashtag for Twitter shares.
• FEATURE: Added a new case to Givlnk generation. When there is no referring URL a Givlnk will be used that links directly to donation page.
• UPDATE: Added validation for account name lengths.
• FIX: Addressed an issue with Givlnk generation to address all cases of dynamic Givlnk generation

November 25, 2009

• FEATURE: Facebook application for organization fan pages that lists all active campaigns with a link to give. More information available in KB Article.

November 20, 2009

• FEATURE: Revised campaign API methods so that there are three routes related to status /campaigns for all active /all_campaigns for all regardless of status and /inactive_campaigns for inactive campaigns.
• UPDATE: Revised the donation pages layout so they have a fixed width instead of liquid treatment.
• FIX: Revised PayPal integration to record campaign name as the item description to improve tracking of donations
• FIX: Addressed issue to record donor email information being passed to PayPal pro to be consistent with PayPal Express method.