Overview
Use sub campaigns to add an additional layer of organization to your Campaigns. Kindful manages your transactions by default in a hierarchy of campaigns and funds (two levels). You may have tracked, or want to track, an additional layer within your donations. Whether you are configuring your Kindful account or preparing your data for a "Custom Services Import," this article provides information about the best practices for organizing your transactional data into three levels/tiers.
Linked Articles:
- Organizing Campaigns in a Hierarchy
Organizing Transactions
You have three options for handling level 1, level 2, and level 3:
1) Fund - Campaign - Sub-campaign
2) Fund - Campaign - Custom Field
3) Fund - Campaign - Crowdfunding
You should review this opinion along with your knowledge of your source data, what you've learned while experimenting in the sandbox, and watching videos in order to make an informed decision.
1) Fund - Campaign - Sub-campaign
What it Means
In this case, every transaction is tied to either a campaign or a sub-campaign. Sub-campaigns are merely grouped underneath (parent) campaigns in the Admin UI so that you can find them more easily.
There is no automated "roll up" in reporting. However, it is easy to manually construct "or" queries to report on all of the sub-campaigns of a parent campaign.
Advantages
The main benefit here is that you can free up a custom field for other uses.
Things To Consider
The main downside relates to the importing process. There is no way to specify the hierarchy of campaign and sub-campaigns in the import process. All campaigns are imported on the same level.
After the import process is complete, you can reorder/organize your campaigns in the Kindful admin. You can then view all of your campaigns as a tree. This can be accomplished via a Sandbox trial.
If you choose to take a campaign that is currently being used a a campaign, and change it to a subcampaign, this update will not change any gifts linked to that campaign.
There is no limit to the amount of subcampaigns you can create in your campaign hierarchy.
2) Fund - Campaign - Campaign Custom Field
What it Means
There is a custom field stored on the campaign for the third level. You can filter by the campaign (level 2) or by the campaign's custom fields (level 3). Filtering by campaign returns everything at level 2. Filtering by the custom field returns everything at level 3.
Advantages
The main benefit is that you get granular and roll-up reporting easily.
Things to Consider
The main downside is it that would take up a campaign custom field (you are limited to three).
3) Fund - Campaign - Crowdfunding
What it Means
The third level of your historical data is all applied to a Crowdfunding campaign. These require a team. This solution is the most cumbersome because it does not fit the intended use of the crowdfunding module. You would get the reporting capability similar to option 2. However, this solution is not recommended.
Advantages
The main benefit is the ability to use a Custom Field in another way.
Things to Consider
The main downsides include needing to add teams to each crowdfunding campaign and using the crowdfunding module in a way it ultimately wasn't designed to operate.
Still have questions?
Feel free to send our support team an email, or you can call the phone number found in the lower left hand corner of your Kindful Admin account to speak to a team member.
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