Bloomerang

Our flexible and powerful Bloomerang integration allows you to “set and forget”, or customize as needed.

In your Fundraise Up dashboard, click your org's name in the top right, click Settings, and in the left-hand menu of your Settings area, choose Integrations.

On the Integrations page, click Add integration and choose Bloomerang from the available options to be directed to the Bloomerang Integration page.

Connect your Bloomerang Account

Click the Connect Bloomerang button.

Enter your Bloomerang username and password — we use this to connect the two systems.

Reviewing the Settings

The Integration is paused when first connected - once you're happy with your Integrations' setup, don't forget to scroll to the bottom and click the Enable Automatic Sync button so that new donations start syncing in real-time!

The only mandatory field to set is Default Fund, so definitely review what's selected in that field and click the Save Changes button in the General Settings section prior to clicking the Enable Automatic Sync button.

We recommend reviewing the other settings available to ensure that records are getting created in Bloomerang exactly as you'd like.

Now that you've connected the Bloomerang Integration to your Bloomerang account, you have control over whether donations automatically sync, and more! This article will help you understand optimizing the Integration's options to make sure everything comes over in a way that best matches your practices in Bloomerang.

Understand what the Integration always does

Standard records and fields

The most important control on this page is the Enable Automatic Sync button at the bottom of the Integration screen:

When Automatic Sync is Enabled, any future donations made via Fundraise Up will make records in Bloomerang. While we offer plenty of options for customization, we do always make certain records and fill in certain fields, to make sure that the standards Bloomerang expects for data are met. So, we always fill in:

Transactions

  • Depending on the nature of the Donation, we make the following:
    • Donation: Any one-time Donations.
    • Recurring Donation Schedule: The Recurring plan's details.
    • Recurring Donation Payment: Each Donation installment of a Recurring plan.
  • On all three, we fill in amountdate, and created date.
  • The amount will be entered in your account's default currency.
Fundraise Up will only sync successful live donations to Bloomerang. We will not send failed or pending Donations to Bloomerang via any sync method — automatic or historical.

Known Limitations

Fundraise Up integrations are API-based, meaning that the software suite that data is being synced into controls how records can be made, whether they can be edited, and so forth. Before using the Bloomerang integration, we recommend reviewing the following known limitations:

  • Bloomerang does not have a Daily Frequency for the Recurring Donation Payment object. To handle this case, any Recurring Plans created in Fundraise Up where the Frequency is Daily will only sync One-Time Donations to Bloomerang, and will not create a Recurring Donation Payment record.
  • Bloomerang does not support recurring donations where the frequency is set to Every 4 weeks. 4-weekly donations will sync to Bloomerang as Monthly.
  • Bloomerang’s API does not allow us to modify Recurring Donation Schedule dates. Because of this, the Next Payment date in Bloomerang may differ from the actual date of the installment, which is set in Fundraise Up.

Constituents:

  • When determining whether to make a new Constituent or append any donations to an existing one, we use Bloomerang's merge criteria:
    • "When merging, the database will look for a possible duplicate defined as a First Name, Last Name plus one piece of contact info (address, email, or phone). If a duplicate is found, the data passed in will be merged into an existing constituent. If no duplicate is found, a new constituent will be created."

Note: Bloomerang's fields for Informal Name, Formal Name, Envelope Name, and Recognition Name are not considered in Bloomerang's constituent matching criteria.

  • We fill in any of the following fields provided during checkout:
    • Email Address
    • First Name
    • Last Name
    • Address
    • Home Phone

Email Interest Field

The EmailInterestType field is required by Bloomerang when creating a new Constituent.

If you have not enabled "Ask donors to subscribe to your mailing list" option in your Checkout we do not send this field to Bloomerang and rely on Bloomerang default behavior. Bloomerang sets this field to "Opted Out" by default for all new Constituents.

If you have enabled this option in your Checkout we set EmailInterestType to All if checkbox was checked and "Opted Out"  if checkbox was not checked.

Foreign Currencies

As well as money-based donations, our integration with Bloomerang also syncs stock donations. You’ll find multiple merge tags that relate specifically to stock donations in the Default comment field.

The integration supports Bloomerang accounts in foreign currencies. All transactions will be posted to Bloomerang in the currency of your Bloomerang account.

Important: The currency of your Fundraise Up account and Bloomerang account must match.

The currency of your Fundraise Up account is determined by the base currency of your Stripe account, which we detect once your Stripe account is connected.

So, for example:

  • Fundraise Up Account: In CAD
  • Bloomerang Account: In CAD
  • Donation in CAD: Posts in CAD
  • Donation in USD (or any other currency): Posts in amount converted to CAD

Review your options in General Settings

Sync Test Data - Check this box only if you need to run tests in Fundraise Up using Test Mode and need that information to appear in Bloomerang.

Default Bloomerang Fund - You must choose a default fund in Bloomerang that Fundraise Up will associate donations with when otherwise no other fund mapping is defined. This is usually the Unrestricted Fund.

Default Bloomerang Campaign - Optional. If left blank, no campaign will be associated by default.

Default Bloomerang Appeal - Optional. If left blank, no appeal will be associated by default.

Default Comment - This powerful feature will let you store additional data that Fundraise Up collects, that Bloomerang does not. For example, Fundraise Up can send the link to the donation record page in Fundraise Up, to Bloomerang, for easy access to additional gift details in Fundraise Up. Another example may be if you'd like to send the kind of IP Geo-location of the supporter, information about the Tribute, original currency, etc.  To add data to the Bloomerang donation comment, click the tag button and add your datapoints to pass to Bloomerang.

Acknowledgement - Checking this box will label the donation as "acknowledged" in Bloomerang after they receive a thank you email from Fundraise Up.

Set additional defaults with Mapping Rules

By default, you will have one default Mapping Rule: Fundraise Up campaign name maps to Bloomerang campaign name. If a campaign of the same exact name exists in Bloomerang, the donation will be associated with this. If it doesn't exist, the Default campaign will be associated, or none.

You can add additional mapping if you like, sending Fundraise Up Campaigns, Custom Fields, Designations, or Static Values of your choosing into Bloomerang campaign or fund fields.

As of the upgrade to the Bloomerang Integration in November 2020, you can now also map Donation, Checkout Questions, and Custom Fields information from Fundraise Up into Bloomerang Custom Fields in categories associated with Transactions or Constituents.

Define your exceptions with Special Rules

If you need to do any special mapping you can do that here. For example, you'd like your Fundraise Up Giving Tuesday campaign to map to Bloomerang Special Giving Days fund. We'll automatically pull in all of the campaigns or funds available in Bloomerang so you can choose from the list.

Actions

Enable or Pause Automatic Sync:

This button will show you the available option for the automatic sync:

  • if the automatic sync is currently paused, it'll show you an option to enable it so that future donations automatically sync into Bloomerang,
  • and if the automatic sync is currently enabled, it'll show you an option to pause it so that future donations aren't automatically synced into Bloomerang.

Synchronize

Use this button to sync live donations from Fundraise Up into Bloomerang. You can import all donations, or choose a date range. This mass sync feature will not sync test donations.

This is particularly useful when you have some donations manually entered in Bloomerang already, or needed to disconnect for a period of time for one reason or another.

Disconnect permanently

This will remove all syncing between the two platforms. If you connect that same account again in the future, we'll remember your settings.