What type of email notifications does RaiseDonors send?

As an admin, you're able to control the types of emails and the content of those emails that RD sends to your donors and your fellow team members. You can enable and customize:

• Donation thank-you emails
• Various recurring donation emails
• Tribute gift emails
• Upcoming payment emails 

This article will discuss the various types of email templates in RaiseDonors and how you can configure which ones go to your donors and your team. If you want to learn more about how to create a new email template, read this article.

Article Table of Contents

• Locate the Notifications Settings
• Types of Email Notifications
• Configuring the Email Notifications 

Locate the Notifications Settings

To open the notifications settings, start by clicking on Settings from the main left hand menu in your dashboard. Under the sub menu called System Settings, you will see Notifications. This will open a page where you can configure which email notifications your donors and your team receive.

Types of Email Notifications

Once you locate the Notifications Settings, you will see a list of available email notifications that can be sent to either your donors or your team. Some of the available email notifications to choose from in this menu correspond to email templates you can build in the Emails tool. A few are only available to be sent to your team.

The following emails types are available to be sent to your donors, or your team, or both (except for the Donation Confirmation):

• Donation Confirmation: Thank the donor for their gift.
• New Recurring Schedule: Send a confirmation that a new recurring schedule has been started.
• Updated Recurring Schedule: Send a confirmation of changes made to a recurring schedule.
• Cancelled Recurring Schedule: Send a confirmation that a recurring schedule has ended.
• Upcoming Charge: Notify the donor 7 days before their payment method is processed.
• Failed Recurring Charge: Send a notice to donors that their recurring gift was unsuccessful.
• Successful Recurring Charge: Send a notice to donors that their recurring gift was successful.
• Acknowledgement: Send a note in honor or in memory of a tribute.

In addition to these email notifications, there are three email notifications available just for your team to receive:

• Payment Disputes: A donation payment is disputed by a donor or their bank.
• Unsuccessful Integrations: An integration with your RaiseDonors account has failed.
• Premium Inventory Low: The number of items for one of your Premiums is low on inventory.

Configuring the Email Notifications 

Next to each type of email notification on the list are two check boxes. Each check box corresponds to either your donors or your team. So for each email type, choose whether you want your donors or your team to receive that type of notification.

After selecting which emails will be sent to your donors, decide which team members will receive specific email notifications. The far right column next to the check boxes allows you to list out specific team members’ email addresses (separated by commas).