Settings¶

Enable Funding Pages

When this setting is turned on, a funding page is available for trip participants. They can access it from their profile on the Involvement > Registrations page by clicking the Funding Page button.

Enable Public Funding Pages

This makes a Goer’s funding page available to anyone who has been given the link. Enabling this setting has two additional effects:

• The support link included in emails to supporters is redirected to the public Goer Funding Page instead of the usual donation page.

• Facebook and Twitter links, as well as the page’s URL for copying, are displayed on the Goer’s view of the funding page. These links also appear on the public view.

Show Public Funding Amounts

When this setting is on, the public page will include the amounts that supporters have given, just as is always the case on the Goer’s own view of the page.

Elements of the Goer Funding Page¶

The trip name, dates, image, and description are all customizable based on several Involvement settings.

• Trip Name — This is the name of the Involvement.

• Trip Dates — Set on the Involvement’s Settings > Attendance tab by entering dates in the First Meeting Date and Last Meeting Date fields.

• Image and/or Description — Set on the Involvement’s Settings > General tab in the Description field.

  Tip

  Size your image before uploading. You can use the online resizer tool at https://www.picresize.com/ if you have no other way to change the size. It handles both resizing and cropping.

• Amount — Based on the Fee set on the Registration > Fees tab. A Goer can only raise additional funds beyond their goal if the RaiseBeyondRequired Ad Hoc Extra Value is enabled on the Involvement, or if the system-level Missions: Raise Beyond Required setting is set to True.

  Tip

  To allow all mission trip Involvements to let participants raise beyond their required amount, navigate to Administration > Settings > Features > Registrations and set Missions: Raise Beyond Required to True. Setting this to False (the default) allows each Goer to raise only what is required.

  See also

  Setting Up a Mission Trip Involvement

• Donate Button — A Donate button (in place of the Goer’s Pay button) takes supporters to the normal support page for that Goer. You do not need to configure this button.

• Links to Share — If you Enable Public Funding Pages, this shows public links for Facebook, Twitter, and the page’s URL to copy.

• Recent Supporters — The list of supporters will show amounts only if the Show Public Funding Amounts setting is enabled. If one or more supporters gave anonymously, “Anonymous” appears in the list along with the total anonymous amount.

Posting a Support Link on a Website¶

In addition to the personal Goer funding page explained above, you can post a link on your church website so that anyone can select a Goer and make an online donation. The link format is:

https://MyChurch.tpsdb.com/OnlineReg/90165?GoerId=0

• Replace MyChurch with your church’s TouchPoint database name.

• Replace 90165 with the Involvement ID# for your Mission Trip Involvement, found in the URL of the Involvement.

• GoerId=0 allows the supporter to select someone from a drop down list of current participants.

Only enrolled members will display in the drop down list.

Manually Configuring a Support Link for a Specific Goer¶

To create a link for a specific participant (e.g., to post on Facebook or share directly):

https://mychurch.tpsdb.com/OnlineReg/123?GoerID=789

• Replace MyChurch with your church’s TouchPoint database name.

• 123 is the Involvement ID for the mission trip

• 789 is the People ID for the participant

Replace mychurch with your church’s database name. The ?GoerID=789 directs the donation to that specific person. Without it, the link would be a registration link for the trip.

New Funding Pages article. Corrected Trip Dates location reference (Registration settings tab, not Attendance).