About the donation portal

You can use Campus Cafe to collect donations made online by credit card. Donors can be logged in to Campus Cafe or an outside guest. The donations flow into the Campus Cafe accounting module.

The Campus Cafe platform offers a donation page where donations can be made either by an individual logged in to Campus Cafe or without being logged in. Campus Cafe supports one donation page.

Prerequisites

• Configure transaction codes associated with donations.

• Configure third-party payment processor PayPal or Authorize.net.

Required permissions

Configure appearance and instructional text

You may style the donation page by placing content above and below the form and in the planned giving section. Additionally, you can add content on the payment screen.

HTML/CSS may be used in these fields. To reference CSS, place the CSS in the custom CSS box on the Appearance and Student Photos page.

1. Go to Admin > Adjustable Text.

2. In Search enter the name of the part of the page you wish to update.

   • DONATION_HEADER: Content appearing at the bottom of the donation form.

   • DONATION_FOOTER: Content appearing at the bottom of the donation form.

   • DONATION_PLAN_GIVING: Content appearing in the planned giving section of the donation form.

   • PAYMENTS_DONATION_FEE_CLOB: Content appearing on the payment page.

3. In Value (the larger box) enter your content. You may include HTML and CSS.

4. Click Save.

5. Go to Admin > Refresh Data Cache.

Configure questions

Campus Cafe delivers questions you may ask on the donation form. Some fields, like the donor’s name, are always required. But you can choose whether to ask other questions such as the donor’s class year or spouse.

1. Go to Admin > Custom Control.

2. In Search enter DONPORTAL.

3. Click the pencil.

4. Each parameter represents a question (field) you can hide on the form. To hide the field, in Parameter Value enter Y.

   • Parameter Value 1: the donor’s affiliation with your institution based on what you’ve configured as constituent codes using STParm MMCONS. These options are shared across Campus Cafe.

   • Parameter Value 2: a free-form textbox where the donor can enter their class year. For example, 2008.

   • Parameter Value 3: a third line for the donor’s address.

   • Parameter Value 4: ask for the donor’s spouse’s salutation, first name and last name.

   • Parameter Value 5: ask if the gift is in honor or, in memory of or for a scholarship and provide the donor with a place to enter the name of the honoree or scholarship.

   • Parameter Value 6: ask if the gift will be matched by a company or organization and provide the donor with a place to enter information about the matching organization.

   • Parameter Value 7: display information about planned giving that you’ve configured in adjustable text.

   • Parameter Value 8: allow the donor to select a purpose of the gift. Gift purposes are configured in Alumni / Dev > Gift Purpose and these options are shared across Campus Cafe.

   • Parameter Value 9: allow the donor to select an additional purpose of the gift. Gift purposes are configured in Alumni / Dev > Gift Purpose and these options are shared across Campus Cafe.

   • Parameter Value 10: allow the donor to select an additional purpose of the gift. Gift purposes are configured in Alumni / Dev > Gift Purpose and these options are shared across Campus Cafe.

5. Click Save.

Go to the donation portal

From within Campus Cafe

1. Go to Alum/Dev > Make a Donation.

From outside of Campus Cafe

To obtain the public link to the donation page log in to Campus Cafe and go to Alum/Dev > Make a Donation. The address in your browser's address bar is the public URL (address) to share with donors. You may link to the URL from your website, email or other location.

Donation payments

Donations made through the portal appear in Gift Cash Batch Listing (Alum/Dev > Gift Cash Batch) for posting to your ledger.