Recent Blogs


Facebook Ads Domain Verification

Facebook has added a new Domain Verification step to their Ads platform. This is a way they hope to minimize the impact of Apple’s iOS 14 changes. The good news is that you can accomplish this with your GiveSignup | RunSignup Domain Hosting. This…

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What Happened to GoFundMe Charity?

In November 2019 we wrote about the abrupt brand and platform shut-down of Crowdrise following their acquisition by GoFundMe. While Crowdrise was designed for nonprofits, GoFundMe has been designed from the start as a platform for individual fundraising for many purposes. The change caused…

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Welcome, Jenn Levas!

We are happy to welcome Jenn Levas to the GiveSignup development team! Jenn has enjoyed a long and successful career as a software engineer (she won’t let me tell you exactly how long). For the past 12 years of her career she…

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No Lock-in Contracts

As GiveSignup begins to gain traction in the nonprofit market, we are finding one of the big reasons customers are moving to us is our customer-first terms of business. We are finding that customer relationships are formalized by other vendors with contracts…

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Payment Account Reporting Part II: Custom Account Codes

You can now add custom Account Codes for each entity (run/walk/ride, donation website, ticket event, membership, etc.) to your payment account reports. These fields will show as new columns in the transactions download per funds transfer so that your internal code is…

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Photos 2.0

We are close to completing our huge project to upgrade our free Photo platform. Here are some of the highlights: Photos on Your Website Whether you upload photos, or you all participants to upload photos, your website will be updated automatically with a page…

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GiveSignup 2021 Product Roadmap

We are excited to share our 2021 Product Roadmap to give our customers visibility into our development plans and priorities for the upcoming year. First, we will continue our investment in our secure infrastructure, making monthly server updates, and taking on incremental…

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2020 Year in Review

TLDR; We broke our normally consolidated Year in Review into multiple parts. This one will focus on the business and market. We also did a 2020 Development Recap and a 2021 Product Roadmap. Since we document things openly, we can take a look back at 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, Q1, Q2,…

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What Does Free Nonprofit Software Really Mean?

Funraise announced Funraise Free this month, giving nonprofits access to their “core platform” for free. But what does free nonprofit software really mean? Funraise Free is yet another freemium model – a common business strategy that seeks to grow the customer base while protecting…

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Results Link on Fundraising Pages

Individual and team fundraising pages now show a link to the individual or team’s results. This adds to last month’s release that gives events the option to display fundraising progress bars on results pages. Many nonprofit events have a broad range of participants….

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