Upcoming Updates to Altru Environments

Upcoming Updates to Altru Environments

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The State of California recently enacted legislation, California Assembly Bill 488 (CA AB 488), which regulates online charitable fundraising in the state. Specifically, the law prohibits charitable fundraising platforms, like Blackbaud, from assisting organizations not in “good standing” in California with making charitable solicitations to and receiving funds from California residents.

To comply with these requirements, we will soon be updating Altru environments.

Staging environments will be updated on Tuesday, January 16, from 6–10pm ET.
Updates to production environments will take place between Thursday, January 18, and Wednesday, January 31. Your organization will receive an email with the specific date of your update.

After the update, if an organization is not in "good standing," direct debit generation processes will remove impacted transactions from the direct debit file. Transactions that were prohibited from processing due to AB 488 regulations will appear with gateway decline code 812.

For more information about California Assembly Bill 488, including answers to frequently asked questions, visit Blackbaud’s CA AB 488 resource site.

News Blackbaud Altru® Blog 01/12/2024 1:00pm EST

Added by Jillian Lewis

1 Comments

Gary Ragan Jan '24

This doesn't really tell us anything… What are the changes being made?

Joe Killian Jan '24

They may have updated the article after you posted your comment:

"After the update, if an organization is not in "good standing," direct debit generation processes will remove impacted transactions from the direct debit file. Transactions that were prohibited from processing due to AB 488 regulations will appear with gateway decline code 812.

For more information about California Assembly Bill 488, including answers to frequently asked questions, visit Blackbaud’s CA AB 488 resource site."