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Ask Donors to Enter Text, Choose Their Preferences, Upload a File, or Add a Date When Donating
Ask Donors to Enter Text, Choose Their Preferences, Upload a File, or Add a Date When Donating

Ask donors data collection questions in a text field, multiple choice field, date field, checkbox, file upload field, or quantity box

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Add a Text Field

Ask donors a question, or request donors to give enter specific information while donating.

  • From the Pages screen, click the pencil icon on the page you want to edit

  • Hover over your page, and click the green + icon where you want to add the field

  • Add the Text Field field

  • Select the Response Length you would like

  • Customize the Label as desired

  • Toggle the Required field to Yes or No

  • Click Advanced Settings if you would like to further customize the field

    • Text Field Placeholder: add placeholder text that appears before donors enter their text

    • Maximum Allowed Characters: add a maximum amount of characters donors can enter in the text field

    • Help Tooltip: add a tooltip to the right of your text field

    • Default Value: enter a default text value into the field

    • Invisible: this toggle makes the field invisible on the live page and on any reporting. Because this field makes the field invisible on reporting and other sources of data, we do not recommend making fields invisible. Rather, we recommend hiding the field. Click here to learn how to hide a field on GivingFuel

    • Hide on Confirmation: hide the text field on the confirmation page/email

  • Click Done

  • Click Save Now in the upper-right corner of your page to save your changes. Click Publish to publish these changes to your live page


Add a Multiple Choice Field

Ask donors to select between pre-populated answers you create to gather targeted information from donors, such as how they learned about your organization.

  • From the Pages screen, click the pencil icon on the page you want to edit

  • Hover over your page, and click the green + icon where you want to add the field

  • Add the Multiple Choice field

  • Customize the Label as desired

  • Toggle the Required field to Yes or No

  • Toggle the Financial Options field to Yes or No

  • Adjust the Display As settings

    • Dropdown shows your multiple choice options as a dropdown. This option only allows donors to select one option

    • Radios displays your multiple choice options as radios. This option only allows donors to select one option

    • Checkboxes displays your multiple choice options as checkboxes. This option allows donors to select more than one option

  • Click Add Choice to add the option(s) from which your donors can select, and customize as desired

    • Name: the title of the multiple choice option

    • Description: a sub-text on your multiple choice option

    • Set as Default: this toggle allows you to select a specific multiple choice field by default

    • Limited Supply: this toggle limits the amount of donors who can select a specific option

    • Visible: this toggle makes the field invisible on the live page and on any reporting. Because this field makes the field invisible on reporting and other sources of data, we do not recommend making fields invisible. Rather, we recommend hiding the field. Click here to learn how to hide a field on GivingFuel

  • If you need to delete a multiple choice option, click the trash can icon next to the option

Warning: If donors have already selected a multiple choice option and you later want an option to appear on the published page, we strongly discourage users from deleting the multiple choice option, as this will erase all data associated with the option from reporting on previous donors who selected this option. Instead, we recommend hiding the field so your donor data is retained. Click here if you would like to learn how to hide a field in GivingFuel.

Pro Tip: Users can choose to add choices from a list rather than manually adding each choice. Here is how to utilize this feature!

  • Click Add Choices from List (found next to the Add Choice button)

  • Add each option, pressing the Enter/Return key after each selection to add each choice to its own line

  • Enter the supply (if desired)

  • Click Generate Choices

  • Click Advanced Settings if you would like to further customize the field

    • Show Remaining Supply: if using limited supply, show the number of available spots on the published page

    • Show Description on Confirmation: show the multiple choice field's description on the confirmation page/email

    • Enable Tax-Deductible Values (only if financial values are turned on): enter a tax-deductible value for this field. When this option is toggled on, enter the tax-deductible value of your multiple choice options.

    • Invisible: this toggle makes the field invisible on the live page and on any reporting. Because this field makes the field invisible on reporting and other sources of data, we do not recommend making fields invisible. Rather, we recommend hiding the field. Click here to learn how to hide a field on GivingFuel

    • Hide on Confirmation: hide the multiple choice field on the confirmation page/email

  • Click Done

  • Click Save Now in the upper-right corner of your page to save your changes. Click Publish to publish these changes to your live page


Add a Date Field

Ask your donors to select a date from a date picker or a dropdown.

  • From the Pages screen, click the pencil icon on the page you want to edit

  • Hover over your page, and click the green + icon where you want to add the field

  • Add the Date field

  • Customize the Label as desired

  • Toggle the Required field to Yes or No

  • Select whether you would like the date to display as a Date Picker or Dropdown

  • Click Done

  • Click Save Now in the upper-right corner of your page to save your changes. Click Publish to publish these changes to your live page


Add a Checkbox

Give your donors the option to opt-in or opt-out of an option you set.

  • From the Pages screen, click the pencil icon on the page you want to edit

  • Hover over your page, and click the green + icon where you want to add the field

  • Add the Checkbox field

  • Customize the Label as desired

  • Add a Description to the field

  • Toggle the Required field to Yes or No

  • Toggle the Checked box to Yes or No depending on whether you would like to checkbox to by default remain checked or unchecked

  • Toggle the Financial Options field to Yes or No

  • Click Advanced Settings if you would like to further customize the field

    • Enable Tax-Deductible Values (only if financial values are turned on): enter a tax-deductible value for this field. When this option is toggled on, enter the tax-deductible value of the checkbox under the Financial Options field

    • Show Description on Confirmation: show the multiple choice field's description on the confirmation page/email

    • Toggle the Left Align Checkbox to Yes or No depending on whether you want to align the checkbox on the left-hand side or in the middle

  • Click Done

  • Click Save Now in the upper-right corner of your page to save your changes. Click Publish to publish these changes to your live page


Add a File Upload Field

Ask your donors to upload a file when they donate.

  • From the Pages screen, click the pencil icon on the page you want to edit

  • Hover over your page, and click the green + icon where you want to add the field

  • Add the File Upload field

  • Customize the Label as desired

  • Toggle the Required field to Yes or No

  • Select the File Type(s) that donors can upload

  • Enter the File Size Limit your organization wants to allow

  • Click Done

  • Click Save Now in the upper-right corner of your page to save your changes. Click Publish to publish these changes to your live page


Add a Quantity Box

Ask your donors to enter a quantity they would like on an option you set up.

  • From the Pages screen, click the pencil icon on the page you want to edit

  • Hover over your page, and click the green + icon where you want to add the field

  • Add the Quantity Box field

  • Customize the Label as desired

  • Toggle the Required field to Yes or No

  • Toggle the Financial Options field to Yes or No

  • Click Advanced Settings if you would like to further customize the field

    • Quantity Range: this option add a minimum and maximum number donors can choose

    • Limited Supply: this toggle limits the amount of donors who can select a specific option

      • Limit Supply To: add the supply limit

      • Show Supply (only if limited supply is turned on): show the total available supply on the published page

      • Sold Out Notice (only if limited supply is turned on): display custom text once your quantity box is sold out

    • Enable Tax-Deductible Values (only if financial values are turned on): enter a tax-deductible value for this field. When this option is toggled on, enter the tax-deductible value of the checkbox under the Financial Options field

  • Click Done

  • Click Save Now in the upper-right corner of your page to save your changes. Click Publish to publish these changes to your live page


FAQs

Can I Edit the Reference Name?

At this time, the reference name cannot be edited after the field is created. The reference name by default will be set to text that is in the label field at the time that the field is created.

If the field has not collected any data and you would like to edit the reference name, you can create a new field, and add the name of the reference name you would like in the Label field. Customize your field as desired, and click Done to save the reference name. Once the field is saved, you can then edit the label if you would like.

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