Gifts recorded outside a normal card payment now fire your Zaps, webhooks, and thank-you sequences, and DAF grants finally move campaign totals.
GiveLink announces each completed gift internally, and that announcement is what drives everything downstream: Zapier, webhooks to your other systems, thank-you email sequences, and the AI plays. Three ways of recording a gift never made that announcement — so to a connected Zap, they looked like nothing happened.
- Donor-advised-fund grants now count. When a DAF grant completes, your campaign total and the donor's lifetime giving move, and your automations run.
- Recovered card gifts are announced. A donation whose confirmation arrived late used to be quietly completed with a receipt and nothing else. Now it triggers the same follow-up as any other gift.
- Hand-entered checks and cash behave like real gifts. Recording a check now reaches your Zaps and thank-you sequences the same way an online donation does.
- Each announcement says where the gift came from — online, recovered, hand-entered, or DAF — so your automations can treat a recovered charge differently from a fresh one.
- No double thank-yous. If a gift is announced twice — say, once live and once by the recovery job — GiveLink recognizes the duplicate and your donor hears from you once.
- Steadier Zapier delivery. If one of your connected endpoints is down, GiveLink retries only that one instead of re-firing the Zaps that already succeeded.
Bulk historical imports still stay silent on purpose: loading five years of gift history should never send five years of thank-you emails.