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Delete supporter records

How to delete a supporter record

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Written by Tony Sasso
Updated over a week ago

You can delete Supporter records from Funraise. Deleting a Supporter will remove the Supporter and related records.

⚠️ Deleting a Supporter is an irreversible action
When a Supporter is deleted, the supporter record and any other records that were deleted in that process will be permanently deleted from your account. It is not possible to bring back data that has been deleted.

👭 Need to resolve duplicate Supporters?

If you need to merge multiple duplicate Supporter records, you'll want to use a Supporter Merge action.


Delete a Supporter

Find the Supporter > Click Supporter Action Menu (3 dots) > Click Delete Supporter

This action can be take from the Supporter list:

Or this action can be taken from the Supporter profile:

When a Supporter is deleted, connected records will be removed or reassigned. Below is a list of the consequences of a Supporter delete process.

Object

Details

Supporter

  • Supporter record is deleted

  • Related items are deleted, including:

    • Payment Methods

    • Notes

    • Tasks

    • Interactions

    • Addresses

    • Custom Question Answers

    • Emails

    • Relationships

    • Orders

    • Event attendance

    • and more

Household

  • If the Supporter was the primary contact, another Household member is promoted

  • If they were the only Household member, the Household is deleted

  • If the Household’s preferred address belonged to the deleted Supporter, the preferred address is removed

Transactions

All Transactions from this Supporter are deleted.

Subscriptions

All Subscriptions connected to this Supporter are cancelled and deleted.

⚠️ Active recurring Subscriptions are cancelled and deleted.

Soft Credits

All soft-credit links to this Supporter are removed; the underlying Transactions remain.

Fundraising Pages

  • Fundraiser pages owned by the Supporter are deleted

  • Transactions assigned the deleted fundraising page are re-linked to the parent Campaign Site Page Goal

  • Team memberships are removed

  • If the Supporter is an owner of a fundraising team, the team is deleted

  • If the Supporter was an admin of a fundraising team, a new admin is not automatically chosen. You can set a new admin from the Team Page profile

  • Commitments are deleted

Orders

All Orders connected to the deleted Supporter will be deleted.

Event Registrations

  • If the deleted Supporter is connected to a Registration Order, the Order and and any Registrations in that Order are deleted.

  • If the deleted Supporter is a guest of another Supporter, the deleted Supporter’s Registration is deleted.


Good to know

Integrations do not sync a Supporter delete action

A Supporter delete action in Funraise does not sync with any integrations.

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