Sync donations from LGL to Double the Donation

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What is Double the Donation?

Double the Donation discovers matching gift opportunities and nudges donors to submit their matching gift request directly to their employer. For more information on Double the Donation, please visit the Double the Donation website.

To use these integrations, you’ll need a 360MatchPro account from Double the Donation.

Overview

Two integrations are available for LGL and Double the Donation, and we recommend setting up both.

1. One syncs gifts from your LGL database

2. The second syncs from LGL Forms and provides a matching widget to your donors

You can set up both of these integrations and not worry about duplicate entries coming into your Double the Donation account. A deduplication process designed to prevent that from happening is in place.

Sync from your LGL database

This integration built by Double the Donation pulls recent gift transactions from your LGL account on a nightly basis. You can select which gift categories you want to sync. This is important because you want to sync any charitable gifts that have company match potential, but you would not want to sync things like event registration fees, which do not have matching available. So, for example, you could set this integration to sync only gifts with the gift category of "Donation".

Setting up this integration

This integration is run from your Double the Donation 360MatchPro account. You will get an API Access Token from your LGL account and then enter that into your 360MatchPro account.  For details on how to set this up, see this help article on the Double the Donation support site.

Sync from LGL Forms

This part of the integration is specific to your LGL forms and has two components:

1. Sync LGL form submissions to your Double the Donation account

With this integration, you can check a box in forms you create in LGL Forms for donation submissions to be automatically sent to your Double the Donation account. Importantly, you should only check this box when the form is strictly a donation form, since you would not want to prompt people to pursue matching gifts for event registration fees or other non-donation payments.

2. Embed the Double the Donation matching widget on your form confirmation pages

With this integration, you can also embed a Double the Donation widget in the confirmation pages for the donation forms you create in LGL Forms. This widget helps donors learn about and participate in their employer's matching program. 

Setting up this integration

  1. Prerequisites:
    1. LGL Forms is required for your donation forms (LGL Forms is available in your Little Green Light account)
      1. Your LGL Forms account needs to be enabled for payments using Stripe or PayPal.
    2. You need to have a Double the Donation account and also use the 360MatchPro product.
  2. Enable the integration in your LGL account in Settings > Integration settings (look for it on the left side of the page).

    1. You'll enter the public and private keys from your Double the Donation account.

  3. You will see a checkbox on the Edit page of any of your payments-enabled forms:

    Keep these two really important points in mind here:

    One is that you should choose this option only on donation forms, not on event registration forms or other payment forms that are not for donations. That is because company matching is only for donations, so you do not want to follow up with people about non-donation payments. Even if your form is a combination of an event registration and an optional donation, do not turn on the sync for that form.

    Second is that you do need to check the box on each form you want to sync. So, if you have two donation forms, say your usual donation form and then a special Giving Tuesday form, you should check this box on each of them.

  4. In the Confirmation Page editor, you'll see a button you can click to insert the Double the Donation widget:

Click that button to insert a merge field that will place the handy Double the Donation widget onto your confirmation page.

When the donor submits a donation using a form that is enabled as described above, then:

  • Donations will be sent over to your Double the Donation account, and 
  • The donor will see the Double the Donation widget on their confirmation page.