Running KIMBIA
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8.29.2011 - Release Notes
With this release, KIMBIA is expanding the ability to configure Messaging Profiles by enabling the bulk upload of individual profiles from an external file located on your computer.
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Four Great Ways to Use a KIMBIA Pledge Form
Pledges allow potential donors to connect with you and make a financial commitment without having to fulfill that commitment immediately. We outline four examples of situations where collecting a Pledge may make more sense than asking for an immediate donation.
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Building a KIMBIA Advocacy Center
KIMBIA's Advocate Center is a powerful new add-on to KIMBIA’s already strong Advocacy fundraising capabilities. Through the Advocacy Center, your motivated Advocates are now able to display a profile picture and a personal statement about why they are raising funds and awareness of your cause. The Advocate Center also provides your Advocates with a portal through which they can manage their goals, view a list of their supporters, and obtain their personalized widget embed codes for their donation form and status bar so they can raise funds on their own web site.
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Enabling KIMBIA Recurring Payments with Authorize.Net
KIMBIA Customers who use Authorize.Net as their Internet Payment Gateway can elect to accept recurring payments through their KIMBIA forms if they have Authorize.Net’s “Customer Information Manager (CIM)” turned on.
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Enabling KIMBIA Recurring Payments with PayPal Payflo Pro
KIMBIA Customers who use PayPal’s Payflo Pro as their Internet Payment Gateway can elect to accept recurring payments through their KIMBIA forms if they have Payflo Pro set to “Allow reference transactions”.
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Configuring KIMBIA Status Widgets
KIMBIA status widgets allow you to visually represent the progress of your campaign on your website, as well as being distributable to your supporter’s websites. A status widget can track your campaign’s progress toward either a monetary goal, or a numerical goal for either donations or individual registrants.
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Form Widget v.2 and CSS Examples
**UPDATE**: As of the 6.23.2010 maintenance release, new HTML container elements have been added to the KIMBIA form widget. These new elements will facilitate more advanced form layouts via CSS and provide a more accurate method of styling. Any custom stylesheet that was written prior to these updates should continue to work as expected and no changes are necessary to accommodate these new elements. However, if you are applying custom styles to your KIMBIA form widget, we recommend reading the updated documentation and CSS examples.
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How do I pre-fill contact information in KIMBIA forms?
Here are instructions describing how you can pre-fill the contact information in KIMBIA forms so your known user doesn't have to type it.
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Mobile Giving Power - KIMBIA for Mobile Devices
As smartphones and mobile devices become a more ubiquitous part our everyday lives, your supporters expect to be empowered with mobile-ready donation and registration systems. Therefore, every organization should address this need by asking the following questions.
1) What will become the prevailing technology platform for mobile donations? 2) What technology will be reliable and efficient enough to meet our needs? 3) What technology provides the levels of security and authentication needed to meet your donors’ expectations and can stand up to the scrutiny of strict fundraising guidelines. 4) What technology can offer fully functional forms that capture all the data needed to build a relationship with donors.
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Installing & Customizing your KIMBIA Advocate Look-up Widget
KIMBIA’s new Advocate Look-up widget allows potential donors to locate a personalized donation form for an existing individual fundraising Advocate. It can be styled to match the look and feel of your website.
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Kimbia Reporting Guide
The KIMBIA Reporting Guide is a primer on how to generate real time reports that analyze the data you collect with KIMBIA forms. This quick reference guide will show you how to build a report, provide definitions of data terms and concepts, and how to work with specific data types.
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Recurring Payments Using Sage
We recently rolled out recurring payment options for clients using Sage Payment Systems. The documentation covers the configuration, display, maintenance and refunding of recurring payments.