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I can't figure out how to configure which fields appear when a user creates a new Recurring Donation. In "Setup | Object Manager | Recurring Donation", I have checked all Page Layouts and Lightning Record Pages and none have the fields as they are displayed. What could I be missing? Where else can I configure which fields are displayed? 

 

Note that the weird layout occurs regardless of how the Recurring Donation is created - using the New button on the "Contact | Recurring Donations" related list or using the New button in the Recurring Donations tab. 

 

#Nonprofit Success Pack  #Recurring Donation

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  1. Sep 10, 2025, 12:02 AM

    @Kyle Blaney

    Yeah, Next Donation Date field is system-calculated, so it won’t show up on the entry form log a single donation. And you’re right that salesforce only generates future Opportunities when creating a Recurring Donation. 

     

    The usual workaround is to manually create the past donations first set the Close Date to when the payment actually occurred, then create the Recurring Donation for all future installments. 

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We're looking into options setting up an automated system for getting donor data from Global Giving to Salesforce. The majority of donors on Global Giving are recurring donations. Keen to hear how people have approached this? Many thanks
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What is the expected mapping behavior of custom Recurring Donation fields to Opportunities when installment auto-creation is disabled

 

For example, I want to map a custom 'Acknowledgment Status' field on the Recurring Donation to the 'Acknowledgment Status' field on Opportunities. If NPSP were set to auto-create the next installment, the Recurring Donation's Acknowledgment Status would get mapped to the new Opportunity. However, we have installment auto-creation disabled. So if the next won installment for a Recurring Donation comes in, say, through an online donation platform, would its Acknowledgment Status be inherited from the Recurring Donation:

  • When it's created?
  • In a batch overnight?
  • At all?
  • And would the Recurring Donation's Acknowledgment Status get copied to all child Opportunities, or just new ones after the field is updated?

Thank you for any insight you can provide! 

 

#NPSP  #Enhanced Recurring Donations  #Nonprofit Success Pack  #NonprofitHelp  #Nonprofit  #Recurring Donation

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We observed the below error message : 

Error #1: 

 

Error Type: Batch Apex error

Error Date: 2025-01-29 21:00:10

Message: "First error: No such column 'npsp4hub__Mandate__c' on entity 'npe03__Recurring_Donation__c'. If you are attempting to use a custom field, be sure to append the '__c' after the custom field name. Please reference your WSDL or the describe call for the a..."

Context: npsp__RD2_OpportunityEvaluation_BATCH 

 

I am able to see the lookup field Mandate from the NPSP packages, when I access the object in the object manager I am unable to find. 

 

Since I am unable to find the "npsp4hub__Mandate__c" in the Object Manager, I am unable to Map this field in Recurring Donations, can anyone let me know if there are any suggestions. 

 

#Recurring Donation

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  1. Divya Chauhan (Kcloud Technologies) Forum Ambassador
    Feb 25, 2025, 9:40 AM
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Hi, 

 

I would like to be able to report on my sales pipeline, including pledged future donations that are recurring. However, the way NPSP is set up means that not all opportunities are created when the recurring donation is set up and I can't accurately report on the sales pipeline. I also can't report on installments. 

 

If anyone knows of a solution or a way around this, please let me know! 

 

Thanks, 

Maeve 

 

#NPSP  #Recurring Donation

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  1. Feb 3, 2025, 3:48 PM

    @Olajide Otolorin -Prince

    thank you for your reply. 

     

    Apologies if I'm wrong but I don't see any options in the NPSP Settings to change the number of Opportunities that are created when a recurring donation record is created. I can see that you can change the 'Installment Opportunity Auto-Creation' setting but none of the choices fit my requirements as shown below. 

    thank you for your reply. Apologies if I'm wrong but I don't see any options in the NPSP Settings to change the number of Opportunities that are created when a recurring donation record is created.

     

    Please can you elaborate on how I can use the NPSP settings to help? 

     

    Thanks, 

    Maeve

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I'm the admin for an NPSP org. I set up a NPSP recurring donation with the owner as Unger (not myself) I would expect that all installments would be owned by him. They aren't I always have to go in and change it manually. This is frustrating since I also do fundraising and when it comes to who owns which donations it can get confusing. 

#NPSP #Salesforce Admin #Recurring Donation

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  1. Jan 19, 2025, 11:46 PM

    please check the link; 

    https://trailhead.salesforce.com/trailblazer-community/feed/0D54V00007epuGGSAY

     

     Check for any workflow rules, process builders, or triggers that might be overriding ownership. Verify the "Assign Ownership of Recurring Donations" setting in your NPSP configuration. Ensure Unger has the correct permissions for owning installments. If the issue persists, check for any data migration issues or consider automating the process with a flow or trigger. Also, confirm you’re using the latest NPSP version, as it could be a bug. 

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Often our donors fulfill pledges by multiple payments. I know how to break the Opportunity up by Payments. However, if the donor makes open ended recurring payments and wants to apply them to the open pledge, how can I apply these to the Pledge Opportunity in Salesforce so that the Contact record doesn't show a doubled/inflated Donation History?

 

Also our board has a Give/Get obligation. So if they get someone to donate an amount, (yes, soft credit) but instead is it possible to apply the separate donation as a payment against the open pledge? Or some way to apply the Soft Credit as a payment against the pledge? 

 

#Nonprofit  #NPSP

 

 

#Recurring Donation

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What is the reasoning behind the error, ""You can't change the Household Account or Contact on a Recurring Donation that has Closed Opportunities."? We occasionally have donors create a new Recurring Donation (via Classy), and the integration incorrectly creates a new Contact that we need to merge with the existing. This error prevents merging the Account, ie. moving the RD onto the existing record.
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  1. Dec 4, 2024, 10:48 PM

    Thank you @Julie Arnzen and @Stan Zizek for your inputs. @Stan Zizek that is exactly my concern too, What will be the after effects of this workaround. There are rollups, validation rules and there could be org specific automations running in the background on both Household and Orginisation account record types and other cascading effects which we need to access. 

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Sometime in the last few months, our iATS recurring donations have stopped syncing to Salesforce properly. All existing recurring donations no longer automatically update in Salesforce when a payment is processed. One recurring donation created in September works fine.

I have worked with iATS, and they say that it is an flow trigger issue on the Salesforce side. I am not aware that we made any developer-level changes in that time period. Are other iATS users having this issue, and was there a change on the Salesforce side that could have caused this issue?

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  1. Aug 17, 2024, 9:08 PM

    Hi @Mindy Gerloff-Saxton,

    Were you able to get this resolved?  If you were, would you mind sharing? We are working with a client who is currently experiencing the same thing. Based on the research that I've conducted, the recurring transactions stopped going to Salesforce sometime in 2020.

     

    Thank You!

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I am currently working with a nonprofit organization on some contract work. They use NPSP. I am working through their upgrades and wanted to see if anyone has any experience with the following:

Most of their donations are recurring and come through PayPal. They are looking for a way to automate the import of transactions from PayPal to SF. They tried using Zapier but PayPal support informed them that this is not possible with recurring donations.

I am still looking into the issues but any feedback or guidance would be much appreciated! Thanks!##

#NPSP #Recurring Donation
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  1. Jul 6, 2024, 4:32 PM

    @Bradley Glick great 👍🏻 

    Should you need further assistance, feel free and sent you message already.

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