How to preselect monthly giving option from email

Kimberly Abuelhaj

Hello all,


I am currently working on an email with a monthly ask, and want to preselect the monthly giving option on the donation form. The form we use is custom built (by Blackbaud I believe) so that the ask amounts between the one-time and monthly options differ. As a result, when we preselect the monthly option in the backend on the form, all of the ask amounts appear vs. the monthly radio button being selected. I was under the impression that a code can be inserted in the URL in order for the monthly radio button to be selected, but I'm unable to find that online.


Any help or insight anyone can share would be greatly appreciated! Thanks all!

Gaby Gollub

Hi Kimberly,


If I understand your situation correctly, I think I can help. When I'm sending emails that link to a form where donors can make a onetime gift (among a few suggested amounts) or a monthly gift (among different suggested amounts), the links in my email include a parameter that selects the donation level of my preferred monthly default amount. So my URLs would include this: &set.DonationLevel=26987


26987 corresponds to the ID number of that monthly default amount on that particular form. You can see a donation level's ID number when you're at the Configure Donation Levels step of setting up your form or with the browser's inspector tool.


You can see this in practice here:

default is $10/month: https://support.worldwildlife.org/site/Donation2?df_id=15456&15456.donation=form1&set.DonationLevel=26987

default is $40 single gift: https://support.worldwildlife.org/site/Donation2?df_id=15456&15456.donation=form1&set.DonationLevel=26977


I hope that helps!


Best,

Gaby