A few weeks ago we released staged donation pages, and now we've made a few more changes and enhancements to how donation pages work. The biggest change is that monthly donations are no longer tied to paid memberships (I can hear a few of you weeping for joy...) So, instead of creating a paid membership page, just create a donation page and turn on monthly donations.
We also added a few more features:
1. Monthly installments. We made it easier for people to contribute to things they care about without having to drop a lump sum of money all at once. If you’re running for office in November, people can commit to a $500 donation and pay for it through installments every month between now and the election. Or, let’s say your congregation needs to build a new church—people can commit to donate $2400 and pay a hundred dollars every month for two years.
2. Infinite donation pages. This isn’t actually a new feature, but it’s worth noting because it’s so unique. Create a special donation page for each of your board members, or give your top fundraisers their own page—because there’s no limit to the number of donation pages you can create (or any page type in NationBuilder).
3. Fixed donation amounts. Imagine what you can do with a donation page when you can specify exactly how much someone can donate. For instance, you can set up basic store functionality by offering a t-shirt for a $20 donation. And since you can create as many donation pages as you want, you can run a crowdfunding style campaign with multiple levels of rewards. Each donation page tags people differently, so you can keep track of which reward to send them.
Things to note about monthly payments:
You must be using a payment provider that supports recurring payments such as Authorize.net and PayPal Express. If you have any existing donation pages with custom templates, you need to make a few template updates that are documented here. Or, you can create a new one—donation templates that have not been customized on a theme will automatically inherit these new features.