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Re: Share: What sessions are you most excited about and why?
I'm really interested to see how everyone is making the switch from database view to web view. Seems like that's the hot topic and I know a lot of folks are like me in the "pry DBV from my cold dead hands" camp.
Amy Dana
Re: Fundraiser Performance tile on home page is inaccurate
That is correct. From BB's documentation...
Note: The following gift types are not included in the goal totals: pledge, write offs, matching gift pledges, adjustments, recurring gifts, GL reversals, amendments, planned gifts, and gifts without fundraiser credit.
Re: Never been to Philly before. What is the one thing I must do while attending bbcon2025?
Hey Angela - I encourage you to attend PSG's Insider's Guide to bbcon 2025 - we'll be covering lots of helpful info including how to get to/from the Philly airport to your hotel, session recommendations, tips to maximize your conference, restaurant recommends, etc.
Re: Never been to Philly before. What is the one thing I must do while attending bbcon2025?
Unless you're coming in early or staying late, or you just need to step away from the conference, I wouldn't create expectations about "seeing Philly" - the conference is morning, noon and night and I find it completely filling and exhausting — trying to sightsee as well is too much, at least for me. But if you do have any time at all, I HIGHLY recommend the Liberty Bell and Independence Hall! The National Constitution Center museum is also excellent and right there: https://constitutioncenter.org/museum
Re: Share: Where will you be traveling in from or watching from?
Beautiful and tiny, Salem, NY. 🚗
NEW checkout experience coming to the Payments API! Join us at bbdevdays to learn more!
Join us at bbdevdays next week to learn more about the new checkout experience coming soon to the SKY Payments API! We'll be giving a demo of the latest functionality and our team will be available to answer any questions including how you can get early access!
June 5th @ 1.30PM - register now to attend live or catch the recording.
Upgrade your Payments Checkout experience with the SKY Payments API
Maximize revenue and boost conversions in your application with an upgraded checkout experience! The Payments team will share the latest version of checkout that includes new presentation options (inline fields!), new payment methods (Google Pay!) and features to help save on processing fees. Learn how to sign up for early access and upgrade your payments experience!
Re: Blackbaud Checkout loading wrong modal/digital wallet options missing
Hi Jerry
Thanks for posting your question. I can explain the difference you are seeing.
The checkout experience you are using today via the SKY Payments API is different from the one used by Blackbaud Online Giving forms (i.e. the Parkland Health Foundation website).
The current checkout you are using does support Apple Pay and PayPal/Venmo. For PayPal, you need to connect the PayPal business account: Get Started with PayPal.
I am also happy to share that the newer version of checkout that you see on the Parkland site is coming soon to the Payments API. This will also include support for Google Pay. If you are interested in being a part of the early adopter program where you can use the new checkout for online card payments, please let me know and I'd be happy to share more details.
Thank you,
Mina
Re: It's Time to Play ... bbcon Bingo!
Can you tell I'm excited that bbcon is just over 2 weeks away?
Re: Apply Gift to Pledge
As mentioned unpost plug-in could be used as option - but use with extreme caution. You must have your gift in a gift query and select that query. If you hit the icon on the right without the query it will start unposting every gift in your database!!!!
Re: Apply Gift to Pledge
The answer is here, but exists in a couple of different responses. All of the work will be done in database view - I don't believe that any of these steps can be completed in webview.
Unpost the gifts first using a plug-in in database view. Create a query of the gifts that need to be changed, and look for the UnPost Gifts utility under PlugIns on the blue bar on the right of your screen.
I would highly recommend that this be a static query, and that you export data ahead of time because you will need to do an import to change the gifts back to "Posted". At a minimum, you will need the Gift Import ID, Post Date and Post status if I recall.
Once the gifts are unposted, you will need to manually update each one as explained by @Beverly Day-Robinson.
After that, import the correct post date and post status back to the gifts. The reason you want to do this via import is that if you change the post status to "Posted", the current date will be populated in the Post Date field, and not the original date of the posting.
This doesn't, of course, address any changes that might be important for you to communicate to Finance. Even if you do not use FE, your finance department may categorize pledge payments to a different line item than Cash gifts.
Also note that I am intentionally a little bit vague about some steps for a couple of reasons. I don't know your organization's policies is the first. Secondly, I like to point people in the right direction and give them an overview of the steps, but not do their work for them.
I hope this gives you the guidance you need!
