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As we ring in 2023, we wanted to offer a review of Little Green Light’s 2022 development work over the past year. Take a look at the items below to see the main updates our developers made to Little Green Light over the course of the year, and click any one to link to a brief description.
We added a new integration for LGL customers to pull class registration data from CourseStorm directly into Little Green Light.
Learn more about the CourseStorm integration.
We raised the payment amount, when you refer a friend to Little Green Light or are an LGL Affiliate, from $150 to $200. See details here and here.
We expanded the list of fields you can map via Zapier to include the following:
Import settings
Main constituent info
Email address info
Phone number info
Mailing address info
Gift/pledge/goal info
Gift info
Event info
Class-year info
Volunteer info
Task info
Contact report info
Read more about integrating with Zapier.
It’s now possible to automatically queue gifts to QuickBooks Online through the PayPal IPN via a new gift creation preference in the field mapping for the PayPal IPN integration:
We released an update to our Annual Statements feature, which allows you to quickly generate a statement of giving for all donors, for the purposes of helping constituents with tax preparation.
This feature is available in the Fundraising > Acknowledgments area of any LGL account.
Learn more about the Annual Statements feature here.
We added an option to LGL forms to require double email address entry in the Edit Email popup window. Adding this will prevent the form from being submitted if the email addresses don’t match.
The GivingTuesday form template LGL offers each year was updated for 2022. Learn more.
We added enhanced functionality to LGL forms that allows customers to enable Apple Pay, Google Pay, and ACH as new checkout options for forms that use Stripe as the payment processor.
Learn more about this enhanced payment functionality here.
Gated API access was added to all LGL accounts, whereby you can request to have the API functionality enabled in your account.
LGL’s Application Programming Interface (API) allows other web-based software services to read and write data into and out of a Little Green Light account. This is useful if you are a software developer or if you want to link your LGL account to software that has built an API integration with LGL. Learn more.
The Search function was added to the Campaigns page, enabling you to search campaigns in the same way you can search for appeals or events from those pages in LGL.
We updated the Flex Importer to show any errors that will prevent records, such as gift records in the examples shown below, from being loaded in Preview and during the import review.
Peer credits are now displayed, along with other giving data, in the constituent giving section in LGL Events and LGL Appeals.
We added “Anonymous?” to the Record Preview, so it is no longer required to click into the constituent record to see that information.
Sum totals were added to the “Donor Summary by Year” widget on the LGL dashboard:
Some versions of QBO do not offer the Class field, so we updated our QuickBooks settings to offer an option to either use Class information or not to use it. If the “Use Class Information?” box is not checked, you will not see the field on the gift entry form and you won’t see the class column in the queues.
We added a single tax field to allow Canadian customers to integrate with QBO. The new field is in the General Settings, and the column was added to the sync display.
We added the ability to assign a Peer Credit gift to a second (or third, etc.) constituent in LGL forms.
Previously, if you tried to set the background color of an LGL form to transparent, the background would be white. You can now set the background color to transparent. This change also updated any existing forms where the background color was set to transparent.
It’s now possible to map the transaction type of a gift collected through your PayPal IPN integration, allowing recurring gifts to be tracked separately from one-time gifts, for example.
The payment processor (Stripe, PayPal, or ProPay) that is used in a gift submission is now included in the LGL forms submission export.
Previously, when there were no current transactions in LGL forms it was not possible to download the recurring submissions report. It’s now possible to download this report regardless of current transactions being present, using the buttons shown below.
For a donor to make a recurring gift through an LGL form that is using only PayPal as the payment processor, they must be logged into a PayPal account. When your LGL form is set up to offer only PayPal to process donations that may be recurring, an alert will display, warning you of this.
A great solution to this issue is to use PayPal with Stripe, which allows recurring gifts to be donated by PayPal and non-PayPal users alike.
This update made it possible to make the 3% fee conditional upon payment in a form, so the option will display only when a gift amount is being submitted.
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