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Mission Trip Funding Pages

This nifty new feature gives mission trip participants and supporters a single page with all the information needed about the funding status of trip participants. The page features a progress bar visually depicting the current funding status, a list of supporters, and links that vary depending on who is viewing the page. You can configure whether the page is available for participants only or for potential supporters also.

For additional information about this useful new feature, read more.

Our thanks to Rush Creek Baptist Church for sponsoring this project, and to Cottonwood Creek Church for their valuable input.

May 17, 2019/0 Comments/by Mike Smith

Resources, Changes, HowTo, News, Online Registration

Mission Trip Support

TouchPoint has always offered the option for a supporter to donate to a mission trip in general. Until now, supporters were required to donate to a specific mission trip participant before they could give to the trip in general. Some of you have questioned why that requirement exists. We listened to your feedback and we are happy to announce that the requirement has now been removed! Supporters can give to the mission trip in general, even if they do not first give to a specific participant.

If you prefer, you can add a setting to retain the old requirement. Otherwise, the requirement has been removed with no action necessary on your part. For more information about enabling supporters to give to your mission trip read here.

May 2, 2019/0 Comments/by Mike Smith

Changes, Online Registration

Mission Trip Changes

We just made 2 small changes regarding Mission Trip registrations. One relates to the Donation Fund and the other to the types of emails the registrants receive. Both are designed to give your registrants the best experience possible.

If an incorrect Donation Fund is entered on the Registration > Fees tab when you set up your Mission Trip organization, the system will select an existing fund to use. This will be logged in the new Administration > Activity Log (stay tuned for more information about that!) indicating the fund that was used. This was done so that your registrants will not experience an error when registering.
For registrants that have an existing TouchPoint user account, we will no longer send the “You already have an account” email, since we are checking the ‘create account’ flag behind the scenes. If they have forgotten their password, they just click the Forgot? link on the log in page, enter their email address and they will receive an email to reset their password.

Double-check your email confirmations to make sure you are giving your registrants all the correct, up-to-date information. Click HERE for a sample confirmation.

Easy Access to Make Payment – Mission Trip Goers

We all know how easy it is to misplace (that is, delete) an email that we really need to keep, such as those Mission Trip confirmations containing the Paylink you need to make additional payments toward your balance. Realizing that, we added a feature to make this easier for those going on mission trips to always have that link available.

All Mission Trip Goers have a user account created for them automatically when they register (if they do not already have one), so they can access their record to Email Supporters and track their balance. Now they can access their record to make a payment toward their balance as well.

The Goer would access their people record > Involvement > Registrations tab and click the Make Payment link which works just like their Paylink. Not only will this make things easier for the Goer, it will be a huge help to the office staff who get numerous requests to re-send Paylinks to the Goers!

This is a special feature for online registrations that are flagged as Mission Trip. If you are not using this special type of registration for your mission trips, you should check it out.

Webinar: Next-Level Missions

Technology has made it easier than ever to deploy and deepen the impact of your mission trips. We want to show you how to use these new tools to support your missions efforts.

WEBINAR: Next-Level Missions: The Ultimate Guide to Mission Trips

In this webinar, we show you the ins and outs of how to plan and resource your short term mission trips.

Salem Alliance Church’s Penny Bidwell and Bellevue Baptist’s Karen Worrell explain:

The who, what, when, where, and how of mission trip planning
Systems for making sure you stay on track and organized
Tactics & tools for fully funding mission trips
Create immersive and transformative experiences at every stage of the journey

Complete the form to watch the on-demand webinar.

August 4, 2017/by Steele Billings

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