What's new in Fundraising and Engagement April 16, 2024
Important
Fundraising and Engagement is being retired. Support for Fundraising and Engagement will end at 11:59 PM Pacific Time on December 31, 2026. For more information, go to What’s new in Fundraising and Engagement.
Microsoft Tech for Social Impact is proud to announce the April 16, 2024 release of Fundraising and Engagement. This release brings significant enhancements mainly to nonprofit gift processors. This release includes valuable enhancement Fundraising and Engagement Azure services.
New features
The April release of Fundraising and Engagement includes the following new capabilities:
- New Stripe API (payment intents) integration: This update introduces Stripe client-side tokenization to improve the payment experience for users who prefer Stripe as a payment processor in Fundraising and Engagement. We highly recommend using the new Stripe API when creating a payment processor associated to a configuration profile.
Updates
This release includes the following updates:
| Description | How it worked before | How it works now |
|---|---|---|
| Donor Receipt Preference - Transaction | Receipt Preference set on the Donor record wasn't populated on the Transaction record created from Donor Commitment. | Receipt Preference of the selected Donor is auto populated on the Transaction records, including the ones generated from Donor Commitments. |
| Donor Receipt Preference – Registration Package | Receipt Preference set on the Donor record wasn't auto populated during Registration Package process. | Receipt Preference of the selected Donor is auto populated on the Registration Package records. |
| Registration Package – Credit Card | When users attempted to use a credit card for the Registration Package payment, they encountered an intermittent problem. Specifically, the Existing Card dropdown wasn't consistently visible. As a result, a confusing error message displayed, leading to an infinite loop. | Users no longer encounter the issue with the Existing Card dropdown during the Registration Package payment process. |
| Recurring Donation Azure background service | Users had difficulty understanding when there are errors in Data synchronization from Dataverse to Azure while the Recurring Donations job is running. Because of the design, it could lead to payment schedule processing to happen in an unexpected way. | Now users can rely on the Azure service to end its processes when critical errors arise during data synchronization, which also prevents payment schedule processing from happening in an unexpected way. |
Important
Fundraising and Engagement is comprised of Dynamics 365 and Azure services. We highly recommend that nonprofit organizations and partners upgrade both Fundraising and Engagement Dynamics 365 solution version 2.4.3.0 and Azure services to version 2.4.3.0 to take advantage of the latest improvements.
Users with access to Fundraising and Engagement may work with sensitive data. We recommend that administrators and users enable multi-factor authentication to increase the security of their environment.