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Tuesday, November 30, 2021

More Features

E-Cards

GiveSignup | RunSignup continues to add new features to e-cards. E-cards are an easy and personal way to enhance the donor experience. Donors often make tribute donations on behalf of or in memory of friends and family. Donors can now choose a card from your nonprofit’s custom designs, add a personalized message, and schedule when the card is sent to their friend or family member. Making a donation as a gift is easy with e-cards and can encourage your supporters to donate on GivingTuesday as a way to give a meaningful gift to their friends and family.

Custom Domains and Subdomains

Use your nonprofit’s domain or subdomain to create a complete branded and cohesive donor experience. 

 

Embed Forms

We posted back in 2019 and 2020 that modern browsers like Safari and Chrome no longer supported session tracking. As a result, we deprecated our widgets that customers previously used to embed registration and other components into their own websites. We simultaneously made significant investments in free websites — including cover pages and free domain/subdomain hosting. More recently, we’ve released a first version of our new website builder, making it simple to add and manage content to your website.

We also recognize that some nonprofits that have invested in their own website may not be ready to make the switch to GiveSignup | RunSignup’s free websites. Our new embeddable donation form code is a safe and secure way to host a GiveSignup donation form on your website because it is sessionless (i.e., it does not store cookies). Your nonprofit can use all of the great GiveSignup donation form features, like flexible recurring giving options, e-cards, attribution, custom donation levels, branded receipts, and more!

In addition to adding a short HTML code that you can copy and paste into any website, we’ve added a specific shortcode for WordPress, and GiveSignup will be accessible as a widget from WordPress. 

 

Website Builder

Design and build your own high-quality donation websites in minutes. Include images, video, playlists, call-to-action buttons, and formatted text on your donation website — no coding skills needed. Our initial release makes it simple and easy to host additional GivingTuesday content. You can learn more about the current functionality here

The next phase that will be released in the coming weeks is pages and menus. We’ll also have a new component that lets you feature a photo slideshow. We will continue to invest in making more improvements and feature additions to our free websites — stay tuned for more exciting announcements!

 

Cover Pages

With GiveSignup | RunSignup’s donation websites, any nonprofit can create a beautiful website for their nonprofit or donation campaign with a custom domain or subdomain, built-in security, mobile responsiveness, SEO optimization, and integrated donation confirmation information. Cover pages let nonprofits create websites that look as professional and unique as the missions they represent.

Here is what you can expect from our cover pages:

  • Header images that can be static or on a rotating carousel
  • Action buttons that can drive traffic to common places on the donation website (such as Donate) or can link to custom actions and external URLs
  • Videos with an aesthetically pleasing cover image and a video activation button
  • Flexible layouts with infinite content sections and full or split-screen display options
  • Data including a live donation goal thermometer

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