Hi All,
We have a request from development to allow a donor to give online without requiring them to create an account. Much like when you purchase at online stores and they ask if you want to create an account, or just do a one time purchase.
Is anyone else doing this? Is this what the temporary accounts are for? We would be storing all of the same information, just not calling it an "account" with a login and password.
Thanks
Here's my two cents for what it is worth - I'll be interested to see what other's opinions are as well.
It sounds like you should just go with a PGP encrypted web form that submits to an internal email address for processing. If you want to integrate with Tessitura, they will need to be logged into an authenticated account (at least in my experience)
While you don't have to associate a web login to a constituent account - I certainly would - especially if they are using the web to interact with you.
You will be capturing all of the information on the web form already so you might as well create the login also. Otherwise, you have the potential for duplicate accounts to be created over the web. The next time they access the site, they may decide to create an account - if their email address is not associated as a login with their constituent account that contains the donation, etc...then a new consituent record will be created and you'll have data clean up issues as well as a decrease in metric accuracy.