What's New In Blackbaud Raiser's Edge NXT® — June 17, 2025

Here are the latest changes in Blackbaud Raiser's Edge NXT for June 17, 2025.
  • Manage campaigns in web view
  • Manage appeals in web view
  • Manage custom fields for events in web view
  • Specify recurring gift processing dates for Standard Donation Forms
  • Add pledges to Standard Donation Forms
  • Add automated pledges in web view
  • Improved descriptions for user history action types
  • Directly post gift batches to Financial Edge NXT (for some of you)
Manage campaigns in web view

To give you more control and flexibility over your fundraising efforts in web view, now you can add new campaigns, edit existing campaigns, view a list of campaigns in a searchable format, and delete campaigns. For more information, see Campaign management.



Manage appeals in web view

To organize and track your fundraising appeals in web view, now you can add new appeals, edit existing appeals, view a list of appeals in a searchable format, and delete appeals. For more information, see Appeal management.



Manage custom fields for events in web view

Based on your feedback, you can now manage custom fields on the event record in web view to help you track event information. For more information, see Event Records.



Note:  In the database view, custom fields appear as attributes.



Specify recurring gift processing dates for Standard Donation Forms

To help you manage your organization's business processes, you can specify two processing days for donors to choose from when they give recurring gifts. When you create or edit a Standard Form with recurring gifts, under Form, select Click to edit over the gift amounts. Under Recurring, configure how and when to process the gifts. For more information, see Configure gift types.



Add pledges to Standard Donation Forms

To provide donors more ways to give, you can add pledges to Standard Donation Forms. From Online Giving, Overview, create or edit a Standard Donation Form. From Get started select Pledges under Gift types. To learn how to create a Standard Donation Form and configure gift options, see Standard Donation Forms and Gift Options.



Add automated pledges in web view

To save time processing pledge payments, now you can add pledges paid with credit and debit cards in the web view. Previously, you could only add manual pledges which did not have a payment method. When you add an automated pledge, from Home, New, Gift, or a constituent record, select credit or debit card under Payment method. For more information, see Pledges.



Improved descriptions for user history action types

To make it clearer who initiated a change and to provide more information about the change, we enhanced the descriptions for the following action types:
  • User deleted — we now indicate if the user was removed due to 90 days of no activity after access was initially granted.

  • BBID name or email address changed — we now indicate if an organization's identity provider initiated the change and if the change obfuscated data to remove personally identifiable information when the account was deleted.

For more information, see User and Role Audit History.

Directly post gift batches to Financial Edge NXT (for some of you)

To track accountability of gifts and streamline processes, you can now easily post gift batches to General ledger to transfer gift information directly to Financial Edge NXT. For more information, see Gift Posting.

Comments

  • I'm not saying it's not needed, but I'm not sure I would encourage folks to specify recurring gift processing dates. One of the clients I work with uses that with Online Express and every now and then they ask me to go in and change the date so they don't have too much coming at them on any given day. Another client uses Standard forms now and I find that the recurring gifts come in every day and seem to be spread out. I would just let things happen and see how it goes rather than trying to force donors to one of two dates each month.

  • Samantha McGuin
    Samantha McGuin Blackbaud Employee
    Tenth Anniversary Kudos 5 Name Dropper Participant

    @kim berry We definitely still encourage the best practice of letting donors choose their own dates. But for orgs who are staying on OLX because it lets them limit the processing dates, this is an opportunity for them to still come over and use the RENXT forms. Thanks for your comment!