Picture a typical fall at a K–12 school. The annual giving day is live on one platform, while athletics collects registration fees through a separate processor. The parent association runs its fall event using a third tool, accepting some payments by check and others through a payment link that no one in the business office can access. Meanwhile, activity fees are paid at the front desk and recorded in a spreadsheet.
Each of these is its own small system, and none of them talk to Blackbaud.
For the advancement and business office staff holding it all together, that fragmentation is a hidden tax on every campaign. Someone has to manually enter each of those payments into the CRM. Someone has to match a giving day gift to the right constituent record by hand, then double back when a donor's name doesn't quite match what's on file. Before a board meeting or an audit, someone must reconcile four or five different platforms against one ledger, usually under a deadline.
That work pulls staff away from the donor relationships and family communication that actually move a campaign forward, and it's the kind of manual reconciliation that quietly eats a week every month.
That's the gap Advance from Gravyty is built to close, and it's why Advance is available to you on the Blackbaud Marketplace.
The centerpiece of that listing is Advance's integration with Blackbaud Integrated Payments. For schools already running Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT® with Blackbaud Integrated Payments, Advance lets payments move through Blackbaud's own payment rails instead of a separate third-party processor. Giving days, crowdfunding campaigns, embedded donation forms, recurring gifts, and peer-to-peer or team fundraising all run natively inside the Blackbaud environment your finance and advancement teams already trust.
Here's what that connection means in practice:
- Native payment processing through Blackbaud Integrated Payments. Run giving days, crowdfunding campaigns, embedded donation forms, recurring gifts, and peer-to-peer or team fundraising directly through Blackbaud's own payment rails, not a separate processor bolted on to your website.
- Payment and donor data that syncs automatically. Transactions flow straight back into your Blackbaud system, so nobody has to re-key a gift or match a donor record by hand after a campaign closes.
- Simplified reconciliation. One connected ledger replaces the month-end scramble of cross-checking several platforms against your books before finance or the board needs numbers.
- Cleaner, more reliable data. Fewer duplicate or mismatched constituent records between your fundraising platform and your CRM means fewer surprises down the line.
- One workflow for finance and advancement. Both teams work from the same real-time data instead of trading spreadsheets and exports.
- Coverage across every program that collects money. Fundraising, athletics, events, and school activities all run through the same system, the same way.
None of this requires ripping out what's already working. It's an extension of the Blackbaud environment your school has already invested in, built specifically for the moments — giving days, registration deadlines, year-end appeals — when payment volume spikes and manual processes fall behind.
See the full listing on the Blackbaud Marketplace to learn how Advance works with Blackbaud Integrated Payments.
