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  1. How will fees be charged if I have a merchant account?

    Your monthly processing fee for money collected in the previous month's collection period is automatically withdrawn from the linked bank account once per month, between the 2nd and 5th (depending on weekends or holidays). If donations were also col...
  2. Connecting to Your PayPal Account

    Not only can your donors use their credit or debit card for donations, they can also use PayPal. Note: Donations made through PayPal will deposit through your PayPal account settings, not your Merchant account. It will also use PayPal's fees,...
  3. How to Add a Donation Form to Your Facebook Page

    Learn how to setup your Facebook donation page and drive social donations via smartphones, tablets and PCs. Note: Facebook restricts smartphone and tablet users from clicking in-app donation page URLs. Be sure to complete all the Parts below to...
  4. Set Up a Text to Subscribe (SMS) Activity

    A Text-to-Subscribe activity allows your supporters to text your unique keyword to 51555, to opt in to receive texts from your organization. This activity type is a marketing opportunity to create general awareness about your organization, upcomin...
  5. Recurring Donations Section

    Recurring Giving is a great way to maximize donations and ensure constant funding from top supporters.  For more about how Recurring Donations function, click here .  Read below for how to enable the different capabilities of Recurring Donatio...
  6. Add Form Elements

    Truly personalize your forms by adding Form Elements . Form elements can help insert images, media, or rich text to your GiveSmart forms. Most importantly, they can capture a variety of additional information for reporting purposes.  For our gui...
  7. Add Calculated Element

    With the Calculated capability of GiveSmart Fundraise forms, you can create forms for things like membership payments and much more. Through the use of custom and calculated fields, the form possibilities are endless. Calculations allow you to as...
  8. Registration Activity Design

    When you aren't interested in selling tickets , but you still want an accurate count of people coming to your event, you can create a Registration or RSVP activity. A Registration activity can be very simple, with single entries on a form, to mor...
  9. How can people subscribe to receive text messages?

    There are three ways people can subscribe to receive text messages. Each of these subscription methods is TCPA compliant . 1. Upload a list of supporters.  To learn how to upload a list, click here . When the first text message is sent...
  10.  Tribute Gifts (In Honor / Memoriam / Birthday / Shout Outs)

    Add a section to your forms to allow a donor to dedicate their donation to someone else. Whether it is in memory or in honor of someone, a shout out or a birthday wish, your donors can easily provide that tribute and send an ecard or email letting...