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In crowdfunding achieving the goal amount of a particular campaign in that particular time is crucial. The reason why it is crucial is because some campaigns are time bound. People fall short to reach out to the masses in that particular time. Now, we have made sure that this major stumbling block has been removed and got a solution for it. We’ve i...
Millennials are one of the most preferred demographics for several brands. What they do, how they react, and why do they take specific actions, influence a lot of advertising and product launch decisions made by brands. And this holds true for non-profits as well. The demographic is giving a new twist to charitable causes, and therefore, they need to be wooed in a completely different manner than other generations.
So, you have a fundraising strategy to raise money for a cause or an innovative idea. The next step is to market the idea, communicate your value, raise awareness, and draw support. To make your fundraising campaign successful, you should be able to connect with your audience, reward them for taking a favorable action, and make it easy for them to take action (and share it) – in short, make the campaign memorable.
Hey you Joomla & JGive Lovers, We have released a feature-packed version 1.6.3 beta for JGive. Help us test this one and take it to a stable version to be used on production sites. JGive 1.6.3 beta Changelog Compatible with Joomla! 2.5.x & 3.2.x + Features: #25911: Added settings for Emails#24886: Added setting option to show filters on rig...
Hi Everyone, We have released JGive 1.6.7. We have added one major feature in this release - The Country and Regions manager with multi-lingual support. The Country Manager and region manager now allow you to restrict which countries and regions you want to allow donations from. This way if you service lets say only the UK, then your users don't ha...
We are happy to announce the availability of JGive 1.6.3 which comes with lots & lots of awesome new features to take your Joomla Crowdfunding site to the next level. The key feature in this release is the ability to Buy Givebacks. This means that the user can choose to pick a specific giveback & donate/invest against that. I am sure all our JGive lovers will love this;). Then we have added some great back office features letting admins add campaigns as well as donations from the back end. This means that its easier to manage donations that are not coming through the website.
The other Major Features include
- Ability to add campaigns from the backend
- Ability to add donations from the backend
- Tighter EasySocial integration
- Major Improvements in Reporting & CSV exports
- Email notification improvements
- JomSocial Bar display option
Can't wait to get your hands on the release? Download it now from the My Subscriptions area. If you are among those still not using JGive, Buy it now!
There's more to this release that i can write up here.. So I suggest you go ahead & read our complete changelog & upgrade instructions!
JGive 1.6.1 is available for download to subscribers. This release fixes the bugs reported in version 1.6.1 and adds up some changes. Below is the changelog for same. Changelog for v1.6.1 + Features added 21964:- show currency left or right side of the amount. + Task done 23495:-Image resizing to prevent distortion23494:- Remove Campaign Type ‘Dona...
JGive-Crowdfunding and donations for Joomla
Fundraising & Crowd Funding for the future with JGive 1.6
It gives me great pleasure to announce the availability of JGive v.1.6. JGive is one of our most popular extensions & this release seriously packs a PUNCH! We know this release has taken a little bit more time than initially planned, but we do hope you will find it worth the wait!
A quick glimpse of Features:
Awesome new Pin Layout for Campaigns & a Multipurpose Campaign Display Module
Now you see all the campaigns in a fresh new layout inspired by Kickstarter. It comes with a great side bar with lots of filtering options to help your users find the campaigns they want.
The multipurpose module will let you choose & show Featured Campaigns, Recent Campaigns, Campaigns expiring soon & Completed Campaigns on any page you want in a slick display. The best use of the module is to make copies of it & set them on different modes to make the Home page of your Funding section.
New Campaign details view
We have given the campaign details page a full revamp & it now comes with some really attractive design elements & the good looking JUI icons.
Edit campaigns option for Admins
Site admins can now edit all campaigns from the Joomla back-end.
Donation Checkout Improvements
This version adds the much awaited One Page checkout & VAT invoices which have been long asked for by our European clients.
Any kind of e-commerce transaction should be dead easy - then be it checking out from a Shop or making a donation or an investment. The One Page Checkout feature will let your donors do donations much more quickly without having to go through multiple pages of checkout.
Photo gallery
Impress your donors/investors by maintaining an awesome campaign image gallery! Lets you add multiple images to the campaign & show them in a nice gallery layout with lightbox effects.
Paypal adaptive payments to make Fees much easier!
Paypal Adaptive payments lets you do Split Parallel payments instantly. Which means if the Donor is making a Donation/ Investment of 200$ & the fees owed to the site owner are 20$, then we can make instant payments of 180$ to the campaign owner & 20$ to the Admin for his fee. Note that this feature will only be available for the Paypal payment gateway.
Recurring Donations with Paypal
Another feature that was much awaited is the ability to do recurring donations. We will be implementing this with Paypal to start with & in later versions, depending on demand extend it to other supported payment gateways.Community Builder Integration
The Community Builder Integration lets you show the user's Campaigns on their own profiles.
Donors & Donations Display Module
Using this module, you can show various types of JGive data on any page you want! The module has multiple modes as below
- My Donations - Donations of logged in users
- Recent donations on site
- Top donations (maximum amount) against the campaign by the single donor
- Overall top donors
EasySocial Integration
CB Integration was always planned but EasySocial integration is the surprise extra feature in this release! The Easy Social Integration integrates pushes for all JGive activities into the EasySocial Stream. Plus campaigns owned by the user are shown on the User's Profile using the My Campaigns Application.
Group Donations Support for JomSocial
One of the most requested features is finally here. Now you can tie in your campaign with your JomSocial groups & also show it to the Group. Now you can start doing Group specific campaigns or investments!
There's much more to this release so read on to see what else we have, plus there is a DIWALI BLAST offer inside. So Definitely Read On!
We are pretty excited to announce the availability of JGive 1.6 Beta 2 for testing. This version brings some really exciting new features as given below. Remember this is a Beta release. So don't use it on live sites! We have added some of the most awaited features in JGive till date. We have also added basic integration support for brand new EasyS...
We are pretty excited to announce the availability of JGive 1.6 Beta 1 for testing. This version brings some really exciting new features as given below. Remember however nice the Screenshots look, that this is a Beta release. So don't use it on live sites! The release is available in the My Subscriptions area for you to download. Feature Highlight...
We are very glad to announce the release of JGive v1.6 to all subscribers. This version comes with some great UI- Pin layout, campaigns column & Usability features. Changes like One Page checkout, Invoice customisation, PayPal - recurring donations, module and much more. Have a glimpse of what are we offering in this version Pin Layout: Make y...
Woohoo! JGive 1.5 is here with the much awaited Joomla 3.0 Support & 20+ New features! Since its release, we have had an amazing response from the community & its fast grown into one of the best Donations & Investment extensions for Joomla.
The biggest feature of this release is, of course, Joomla 3.0 Support. The next Big feature is the addition of Categories.
Category Management
Admins can create Categories & these can be used to better present and manage campaigns on the frontend. Another awesome addition is support for Guest donations.
Additional Flexibility with Guest Checkout
Now Donors have an option to donate as a guest without having to log in to your website. This awesome flexibility is sure to improve your campaign conversions.
Campaigns Module
You can use this super versatile module to feature your campaigns on other pages of your site. Configuration options include deciding which categories to show campaigns from & ability to show only featured campaigns.
Rich Text Editor for Campaigns
Users can use a full featured Rich text editor to add descriptions about their campaigns. We recommend using JCE & setting up a Profile for frontend submissions that allow only the required features on the frontend. This means you can now add multiple Photos, Videos etc to your campaign!
Here is the list of Major Feature Additions
- Joomla 3.0 Support
- Category Support
- Guest Donations
- Awesome new Social Sharing options with OG tags support
- Rich text editor for campaigns & a Cool new Module for campaign display
- Flexible Commissions with ability to charge X fixed price + Y %
- Lots of Filters on the frontend in All campaigns view - configurable via menu options
- Admin Approval workflow for campaigns & email notifications on changes
- Terms & conditions support
- Commission Configuration override on a per Joomla User Group level
- Paypal Mass payments
- Ability to Delete & unpublish campaigns from the Admin interface
- Featured Campaigns
- Campaign Display Module
This is one Upgrade you don't want to miss! Existing subscribers can immediately download this new version in the My Subscriptions Area
Read on for the full changelog for the detailed list of Feature additions & Bug fixes.
JGive 1.5.2 is available for download to subscribers. This release fixes the bugs reported in version 1.5.1 and adds up some changes. Below is a changelog for the same. Compatible with Joomla! 2.5.x & 3.0.x PHP 5.3 or higher is needed Changelog for JGive v1.5.2 - Bugs fixed #19249 Wrong ids in campaign promoter filter options #19250 Fatal error...
As you know, we try & get our customers involved in the development process as much as possible. This helps us start a conversation & listen to ideas & feedback & help come out with better releases. As part of this initiative, we have our series of "Subscriber Connect" Newsletters & Blogs which keeps you abreast of what we are d...