As of April 3, 2023, Salesforce Elevate is no longer being sold. What does it mean? The product's unavailability will force its users to look for alternatives to keep fundraising online, securely manage their donor data, and have ample opportunities for growth. Donorbox is here to help with its wide range of conversion-optimized features that help boost donations, engage and retain donors, and increase campaign outreach.
Salesforce.org Elevate is about to retire. As of April 3, 2023, the product is no longer being sold by Salesforce. What does it mean?
Elevate’s unavailability will force many US organizations like yours to look for alternatives that will help them fundraise online, securely manage their donor data, and provide opportunities for growth.
Donorbox is here to help. Chosen by 80,000+ organizations in 96 countries, it’s an all-in-one online fundraising platform with a range of conversion-optimized features including donation forms and donation pages, recurring donations, donor management, peer-to-peer fundraising, event ticketing, and more. We also help organizations integrate with thousands of apps and software tools such as Salesforce NPSP, HubSpot, MailChimp, and Double the Donation.
We’ll talk about our features in more detail, and this article will also help you understand how the transition to Donorbox will be super smooth.
Salesforce.org Elevate has been an end-to-end fundraising solution for nonprofits. Elevate’s Power of Us edition was ideal for low-revenue organizations with no upfront costs and a 3% transaction fee. On the other hand, Elevate Advanced was more focused on bigger organizations that generated higher revenues.
Elevate came with useful fundraising features like recurring donations, custom-built donation forms, embeddable giving pages, data management with Salesforce NPSP, automated receipts, and Salesforce.org Payments API which connected to Stripe and PayPal Checkout.
If you were using Elevate for these features and the ease of accepting online donations, the transition to Donorbox will be swift and smooth. Read on to learn how.
Plus, getting started with Donorbox takes just 4 simple steps. Check out here:
In addition to the reasons listed above, Donorbox’s products and features will ensure you keep raising money for your organization without being affected by Elevate’s shutdown.
Let’s take a closer look.
Donorbox enables you to create fully-customizable and mobile-optimized donation pages that include your brand color, logo, images, videos, campaign stories, a custom-built donation form, social media sharing buttons, a goal thermometer, a donor wall, and even more.
Moreover, our donation forms and pages are officially AA-level compliant with the accessibility standards laid out in Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1! This ensures that people of all abilities are guaranteed access, with features such as color contrast, easy-to-understand labels, and keyboard navigation.
Here’s an example of a nonprofit using a Donorbox-hosted customized donation page to raise money for their organization.
Build Customized Donation Pages!
Donorbox’s donation forms are fully customizable and you can add recurring donation intervals to them as follows:
…as well as a one-time donation option.
You also have the option to mark one of the intervals as default and one as preferred with a tiny heart icon next to it. These two features make the decision easy on your supporters.
Plus, once you have customized the recurring donation form, you can choose to embed it on your website or add it as a popup form. Donorbox gives you the code that you can easily copy and paste into your website editor.
Setting up recurring donations is also convenient for your donors. The giving amount is automatically deducted from their chosen payment method at regular intervals so that they don’t have to remember or take the time to give again. They receive login details from Donorbox to access their account and make changes to their recurring plans.
Code for America has embedded its Donorbox recurring donation form on its website’s fundraising page. It includes three recurring intervals, and the monthly interval is marked as preferred. As you can see, they have also added custom ask amounts to further personalize their giving experience.
Sign up for Recurring Donations!
With Donorbox Donor Management, your donor and donation data gets securely stored in the Donorbox database after each donation. You can easily access this data on your Donorbox account.
Donorbox lets you update your donor profiles, add communication notes, and segment data according to basic and advanced filters to help your communication efforts. You can also utilize our simple-to-use donor reporting templates to get data on new donors, donor overview, and LYBUNT supporters.
Donorbox also sends triggered alerts for important donor moments such as their first donation, giving anniversary, change in recurring plans, and more to help you reach out at the right time.
However, at Donorbox, we also understand that you may need more power to track and analyze your data with advanced CRM tools. Therefore, we let you integrate with Salesforce Nonprofit Success Pack (NPSP), HubSpot, and Blackbaud Re NXT. These integrations ensure that data flows between the two systems in near-real time to make your job easier than ever before!
Check out our integration with Salesforce NPSP:
Donorbox lets you automatically send customized donation receipts for every campaign you create on the tool and you can easily edit the message of the receipt emails. Your recurring donors also receive an automated receipt after each donation.
Additionally, Donorbox users have the ability to customize and send a year-end tax receipt to donors to make tax filing easy for them.
Donorbox’s main payment processing partner is Stripe. Every transaction is SSL-protected, PCI compliant, encrypted, and enabled with fraud detection via machine learning.
With Stripe’s 99.99% uptime, you also get to ensure successful transactions and happy donors. Just connect your Stripe account with Donorbox after you sign up, and you’re good to go! It will enable you to accept any credit/debit cards, ACH bank transfers, Apple Pay, Google Pay, etc. for payments.
Donorbox also lets you connect to PayPal to securely accept donations via the platform. If you were using PayPal Checkout with Elevate, you have the option to enable it on your Donorbox account. PayPal’s advanced fraud detection technology and data encryption ensure the utmost security for your organization.
For more information, watch our YouTube video on connecting Donorbox with Stripe and PayPal.
Donorbox helps you track your campaigns’ performance by inserting code snippets on donation forms and pages to send donation metadata to Google Ads, Google Analytics, and Meta Pixel.
This feature ensures that you can tweak your existing campaigns or improve future campaigns to boost their effectiveness. If you sign up for Donorbox Pro, this feature comes included in it. You can also activate this as an add-on with your Standard plan.
Keeping the ball rolling is great but we’re sure you’ll want to grow your organization and scale your fundraising and donor engagement with more innovative and advanced tools.
Donorbox is here with everything you need, all with free signup and a complete hassle-free setup. Let’s take a look at these powerful Donorbox features.
Donorbox keeps growing with your organization. We aim at developing digital giving tools and improving them to meet nonprofit fundraising needs.
Plus, with Donorbox Premium, we offer you personalized support via expert fundraising coaches and account managers so your growth is never-ending.
Sign up for Donorbox to fundraise like a pro!
With Salesforce.org Elevate closing down, you need to find an alternative solution that makes way for a smooth transition, helps you fundraise online, keeps your data secure, and facilitates your nonprofit’s growth.
Donorbox is your best choice – with everything you’re looking for and even more! We’ve helped organizations across the globe raise $1.6B+ in donations. Jump on the bandwagon today!
Explore our range of fundraising and donor management tools on the website. Check out integrations that will help you connect to loads of CRM and marketing software. Finally, take a look at our various pricing plans and sign up today to start fundraising!
Don’t worry – we’ll make your fundraising journey on Donorbox as simple as possible with guides, insightful tips, and other resources. Subscribe to our monthly blog newsletter to receive a curated list of Donorbox’s best resources in your inbox.
Chirasree Bose is the Content Editor at Donorbox. Apart from editing and writing, what holds her interest the most is reading books. Chirasree loves to explore the world of fiction and has authored some books herself. Connect with her on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Twitter.
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