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How To Edit Contact Records

Written by Jenna Notarfrancesco

With the CauseVox Fundraising CRM, you can easily access and update supporter information you rely on every day. The CRM centralizes all contact data so you can quickly make edits, keep records accurate, and maintain a complete history of your community. Instead of manually managing spreadsheets or tracking information across multiple systems, CauseVox keeps your contact data organized and up to date so you can focus on building stronger relationships, not data cleanup.

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Contact Search

Looking for a particular donor? You can search and select contact records from your Contacts to view their profile.

Contact records centralize and track donations, recurring gifts, pledges, installments, auction bids and payments, fundraising activities, and engagement in real-time, helping you get to know your supporters.

When you access a contact’s Overview, you can see information including:

  • First Name

  • Last Name

  • Email(s)

  • Phone Number(s)

  • Address(es)

  • Tags

  • Activity

  • Households

  • Organizations

  • Lifetime Gift

  • Average Gift

  • Largest Gift

  • First Gift

Edit Contact Records

Should you need to edit a contact photo, name, email, phone, address, relationship and more, under Overview >> Details, select Edit. You can also edit the record via Actions on the right.

Under Details >> General Information, you can edit the following contact information:

  • Display Name (how the name should be displayed in CauseVox. This can be a nickname if needed)

  • Title

  • Suffix

  • First Name

  • Middle Name

  • Last Name

  • Maiden Name

  • Deceased

  • Can Contact

  • Any contact custom questions

Use the top navigation tabs to update additional information such as:

  • Contact Methods, such as email, phone, address

  • Relationships, such as spouse, child, sibling, parent, colleague, friend

  • Households to connect the contact to a related household with additional members

  • Organizations to connect the contact to a related organization

  • Payment Methods to add saved payment methods such as credit/debit cards, Apple Pay/Google Pay, ACH bank transfer and set a default payment method

Manage Contact Data

Under the record's Manage tab, you can view, edit and export all transactions including:

  • Portal Users (if the contact has created a portal account)

  • Recurring Profiles

  • Donations

  • Pledges

  • Installments

  • Installment Invoices

  • Personal Pages

  • Team Pages

  • Organization Pages

  • Registrations

  • Ticket Orders

  • Tickets

  • Auction Bids

  • Auction Bidders

  • Auction Payments

  • Revenue

  • Expected Revenue

  • +more

For a complete list, under Manage, select the data you wish to view from the left navigation, then export on the right.

Select the ellipses Quick Actions to edit records including refunding donations or moving them to other campaigns or peer-to-peer pages.

Add Contact Notes

You're able to make notes on Contacts to help you keep track of activity or other comments on members of your community.

Select the Notes tab >> Create Note.

A few things you may want to note are:

  • Significant dates for them, like birthdays

  • In-kind donations

  • Reasons why they have cancelled a recurring donation, didn't fundraise, etc

  • Interactions you have with the contact outside of CauseVox (contents of emails, phone calls, or in person conversations)

Remove Duplicate Records

Review suggested duplicate records to clean and consolidate data. Select the eye icon to compare the related records and merge or dismiss the suggested duplicate.

Track Real-Time Activity

In the contact's activity feed, you can see all recent activity including:

  • New donations/pledges/installments

  • New fundraising pages created

  • Donations made to a fundraising page

  • Recent updates to a fundraising page

  • New ticket purchases

  • Auction bids and payments

Filter the view by activity type and a date range, and use the popover for a quick information view and cross reference.

Importing Contacts

We make it easy for you to add and import contacts into CauseVox so you can keep track of the activity of your community online over time.

The CauseVox Fundraising CRM frees you up. By having all your data saved in one place, it not only saves you time but also helps keep all your data easily accessible and organized, giving you more time to spend on engaging your community.

Have questions about the Fundraising CRM? Email us at [email protected].

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