Forms
A Form (called a Campaign or Page in the system) is the donor-facing experience through which constituents donate, register, buy, or volunteer. DonorPoint publishes forms as live web pages with your branding, accessible via URL on your organization’s domain.
In This Section
- Forms Overview and Lifecycle — form types, status lifecycle, creating and publishing
- Campaigns and Forms — Naming — why the system calls forms “Campaigns”
- Contact Fields — what information is collected from donors at checkout
- Payment Methods — payment options available on forms
- Confirmation Page — what donors see after a successful transaction
- Confirmation Email — the receipt email sent after a transaction
- Sharing and URLs — custom URLs, QR codes, redirect URLs
- Promotions and Discount Codes — promotion codes and discounts
- Social Media and Search — Open Graph, social sharing, SEO settings
- Page Templates and Branding — HTML wrappers for your brand
- Customization — custom fields on forms and transactions
- Scripting — pre-processing and post-processing scripts
Three Form Types
| Type | Best For |
|---|---|
| Single-Page Form | One focused appeal: a donation page, event registration, or simple checkout |
| Community Form | Peer-to-peer, workplace giving, and team-based fundraising |
| Catalog | Multiple items in a browsable format with a shopping cart |
All three form types share the same checkout, payment, confirmation, and customization infrastructure. See Catalogs for catalog-specific topics, and Community Fundraisers and Workplace Campaigns for those contexts.
Forms and Items
Forms are containers. The actual giving options, event packages, raffle tickets, and other choices a donor makes are Items — defined separately and assigned to one or more forms. This separation means the same item can appear on multiple forms without duplication. See Items.