Hello all,
The Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts is in the midst of a seat naming campaign and I am looking for the best way to track what the contributors want put on their seat plaque. A few caveats:
We don't have the venue built in Tessitura yet. At some point in the future we will probably set up a "performance" allowing us to "sell" that seat to the patron who named it.
So, is there a way (custom screen? Aliases?) to track the 200 character long messages that the contributors are choosing? What things have others tried?
Program listing is one option, but as others have noted here there is a limit to 70 characters. We were having similar issues and have created a custom tap in contributions that contains 3 fields. the first allows you to choose one of the existing Program listing types or "Other see below". The second is a custom field for the gift specific listing. and the third is for notes. We have a custom report to pick up this information. We usually use this in conjunction with "designation". So if the patron has designated this gift "In Memoriam" we would add the special instructions here and it wouldn't interfere with their listing for their regular Annual gift. They can also make several "In Memoriam" gifts for different people and the information always remains with the gift. We also use this for other naming opportunities.