Search Builder

Recent Has Failed Recurring Giving¶

This Condition, located on the Contributions category tab in Search Builder, allows you to find people whose Recurring Giving failed in the number of days you enter. The Comparison Values are either True or False.

We recommend running it weekly, looking back 7 days. Over a longer period, the donor may already have fixed the problem.

../_images/QB-RecentHasFailedRecurringGiving-Conditions.png — Sample search in Search Builder¶

Note

You must have the Finance role to get results from this Condition. Without it, the search returns 0 people and does not show an error.

More information about how this works:

When failed recurring giving happens, we record whose gift it was that failed in the transaction itself.

There are two types of failed transactions, credit card and bank account. The search uses two different methods based on these types. For a credit card, we use the transaction itself. For a bank account, we examine the contribution and look for Recurring Giving in the description. and if the contribution had been marked as Returned.

The new condition uses the date of the contribution or the date of the transaction to determine if it falls within the recent # of days specified. This condition does not consider whether the recurring giving has more recently succeeded. For this reason, we advise running this once a week and only look back 7 days. Regardless, an account ought to be reviewed before making contact with the donor in case they have already taken steps to repair the reason for failure.