Entering donations via Facebook on Giving Tuesday (etapestry)

Lisa Gill
Lisa Gill
Fifth Anniversary Facilitator 1
in Blackbaud eTapestry® General Discussions
I am trying to determine the best way to record donations made through Facebook on Giving Tuesday. We received a lump-sum check from Facebook for 70 different donations that used Facebook on GivingTuesday to make donations to our organization. We have accounts in etapestry for each of the 70 donors. 2 thoughts I have are below but I am not sure if they are correct.


1. Add a Journal Entry Type Gift for the total donation amount to the Facebook Account in etapestry. Then go to each donor's account and add a soft credit

2. Add a Journal Entry Type Split Transaction to the Facebook Account in etapestry. Then for each segment/donor have the Gift Type be Soft Credit. Etapestry has a maximum of 60 splits and I would have more than that.


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  • Betsy Rubenstein
    Betsy Rubenstein
    Sixth Anniversary Kudos 1 Name Dropper Facilitator 1
    You can take the spreadsheet that you get from FB and do a single gift import. You map the fields that the spreadsheet gives you so etap can match the donation with an existing donor or create a new account, and map transaction fields. We use approach = FB Donation to note where it came from, but since FB isn't the donor, the actual donor is, it doesn't make sense to soft credit in this case.

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