The August release notes have detail on our biggest product launch of the year: Funraise Events. If you missed our live watch party where we announced and demoed these new tools, you can watch the recording and see a full walkthrough of new features!

For a full overview on the event workflows you can now accomplish with Funraise Events, take a few minutes to review the updated Funraise Events 101.

The release notes this month are almost entirely about fundraising events, although we've released a few big improvements that should not be missed, including the introduction of Plaid for ACH donations and advanced filtering mode 🤓

As your guests begin purchasing tickets, they will appear in your attendee list. This list enables a new quick guest view and edit experience. We've also introduced a new progressive information capture tool, enabling alerts when guests have missing information and a seamless email flow to capture missing guest data.

The guest check-in flow has been completely updated in both the desktop platform and the Funraise app. The new check-in interface enables quick searching of guests and provides full guest profiles with the guests’ table assignment, paddle number, and alerts if the guest is missing important information like a stored payment method.

We've also added the ability to capture a payment method during check-in!

Funraise Events now provides a fully-featured, yet surprisingly simple-to-use Paddle Raise fund-a-need interface. You can create Giving Levels, and your event team can record paddle raises in the desktop platform or via the Funraise app.

When a paddle raise is recorded, the pledge appears on your Live Display and a commitment is created behind the scenes, allowing you to easily report on event pledges.

Table management tools enable you to create your event seating chart. Click-and-drag individual guests or entire parties to tables. Table capacity alerts and filters provide helpful guidance so you can easily see what tables are open or overbooked. You'll even be alerted when you've seated guests from the same party at different tables.

In Fundraising Intelligence, our advanced reporting module, you can now create custom reports or dashboards that track all aspects of your event revenue performance in one place, including:

The primary updates that unlock these new capabilities include an enhanced Events data source, new Commitments data in the Transactions data source, and a Transaction type detail to segment transactions by tickets, auctions, and direct donations.

ACH payments on your Giving Forms are now instant-verified via Plaid, the modern, secure, and preferred method for online bank payments. This update does not require any action on your end.

Donors can now make a donation with ACH (eCheck) by securely logging into their bank from your Giving Form without having to find or enter bank account or routing numbers.

Plaid verification removes any need for micro deposits. ACH payments are still processed via Stripe. In the platform backend, you are still able to create and run ACH payment methods—this change only impacts your Giving Forms.

You can now conduct advanced filtering in standard list sections. Advanced filtering enables OR operators and nested filter groups.