As an example, your team might write personal thank you notes for donations over $100. With Funraise’s Tasks, you can automate a new assigned task for each donation over $100 and check it off when complete.
Funraise’s Tasks enable your team to work more efficiently and foster better relationships through timely, donor touchpoints.
When you open Tasks, you’ll land on a page that displays Tasks that are assigned to you—this is your to-do list. By default, Tasks are grouped by the automation that created them, but you can also sort your tasks by date.
Each task row has helpful information and actions.
Access all your live automations by clicking automation in the section header. Here you can view the automation name, task type, number of open and complete tasks, and even the average response time. Click the actions button to edit or delete an automation.
On the search page, you can filter through all tasks. For example, if you’ve completed your tasks early and want to help a teammate complete theirs, filter for Tasks Assigned To—equals and select a team member. Then add another filter for Status equals pending. This will display your team members open tasks.
And of course you can create a new Task Automation from the section header. Let’s create an automation to see how it works.
First, you can assign or reassign a Supporter if they make a donation that matches your automation rules. You might use this if you want to assign a Supporter to your development director when they make a donation of $1000 or more.
Second, you can create a Supporter interaction when the task is completed. In most cases, we recommend checking this option so that your team has a history of each interaction with a Supporter. We'll talk more about how Task and Supporter interactions work together later in this lesson.
After you’ve configured settings, click Automation in the flyout side menu. Here’s where you’ll build the rules for this automation.
An automation is based on Transaction activity. This means that when a Transaction is created and meets the parameters you set here, a task will be created.
For example, if we add a filter for Amount—is above or equal to—500. A task will be created for each donation over $500.
We’ll cover some more helpful task automations in another lesson. For now, we can just click Save.
You should always run a quick test... In most cases, the easiest way to test your automation is to manually create an offline transaction.
To do that, let’s jump to Transactions, where we can create a quick Transaction that’s more than $500. After creating this test Transaction, just navigate back to Tasks to see that a new task has been created! Easy.
Now that you know how to create Task automations and manage individual tasks, let’s look at other areas of Funraise’s platform that interact with Tasks.
For example, open a Supporter profile and navigate to interactions. You’ll see the open Tasks for this Supporter above their historic interactions.
If you’ve configured it with your automation, when you complete this task it will appear as an interaction.
First, you can receive an email notification for new tasks. To activate Task notification emails, activate general email notifications from Settings.
Navigate to Settings and on Your Profile you’ll see the checkbox for email notifications; make sure that’s checked.
It’s worth noting that with email notifications active, you’ll also receive notifications for every donation, which may be... undesirable. While our product team ponders more flexible notification options, a good workaround is to filter your own inbox so that standard donation emails are automatically marked as read.
The second way to receive notifications is through Funraise’s mobile app—available for both Android and iOS devices. With the mobile app, your team can be notified on the go with push notifications. You’ll also be able to view and manage your Tasks in the app.
