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Stop letting failed donations quietly drain your giving.
Every time a recurring donation fails and no one notices, your ministry loses not just that one gift—but potentially months or years of giving. And while you’re busy with events, sermons, and a milli...
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How we calculate non-recurring donor automation impact.
# How we calculate non-recurring donor automation impact. At GivFlow, we’re passionate about helping your church grow its foundation – in a lot of ways, that starts with reliable giving. That chart y...
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How we calculate failed donation automation impact.
At GivFlow, we’re all about showing you the real impact of our automation tools. That snazzy chart you see? It’s not just pretty colors—*it’s a story of how much donation dollars we’re helping you rec...
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[NEW AUTOMATION] Recover Failed Donations - ACH & Debit - GivFlow
## Finally, reach out to *all* failed recurring donors automatically. In case you missed it, one of the original automations we rolled out last month was an automation designed to reach out to donors...
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Why your church wants more recurring donors.
At GivFlow, we’re huge fans of recurring donors – let me tell you why. Look, we don’t need to write a 500 page essay on this topic. I think we could probably agree that; **→ Recurring donors allow y...
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Automations Workshop / Overview Playback
In case you missed the live workshop event; we've put a recording here on the website. We also made sure to spell 'workshop' correctly. Want to click through the slideshow yourself? [Do that here](ht...
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RSVP Workshop + GIVEAWAY!
## Join us Tuesday, February 4th @ 2pm eastern! ### We’re excited about automations and want to show you why you should be excited too – for existing and prospective customers! *Must RSVP using butt...
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Add "Last Gift Date" to Planning Center People!
# Add "Last Gift Date" to Planning Center People! Check out this 3min video on how to add a “Last Gift” date to your Planning Center People profiles! Hope this was helpful! If it was, and you want m...
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GivFlow Automations
If you haven’t heard about GivFlow automations, you should check out the [pre-launch landing page](https://givflow.com/givflow-automations/)! While currently in beta, we wanted to highlight the featur...
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Donor Cumulative / Compare
We’ve updated our donor comparison report! Let’s take a look. While this report was wildly useful, we got a lot of feedback on it’s intuitiveness. Without going too far into the weeds, before you ne...
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Basic strategy to start growing your giving (w/ or w/ out GivFlow)
Churches ask us all the time; how do we start growing our giving ministry using GivFlow or not? Moreover, what do we communicate with donors? Like a lot of really good answers in life, **it depends**.
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1 List to Reach New Donors
Before we get into the list rules, let’s talk about why this is a great time of year to reach out to new donors. Why? Because a lot of people already get it. Christmas is already the season of giving ...
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Top 5 metrics to follow in GivFlow
So many churches have no idea why their giving is what it is. The budget analysis report will let you know very quickly – easy to understand and easy to share with your peers. The biggest question thi...
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2 EASY ways to increase giving TODAY.
Look, we know that main goal of the church isn’t to increase giving – it’s to make disciples. However, we also know the church employs people to go and make disciples – people to put on and host event...
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4 groups of donors to reach out to for EOY giving.
Yes! You should. I find that most churches are always sending out letters, or emails, about the Christmas or end of year offering. That’s great. However, most are missing the opportunity to be specifi...
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Reduce the number of lapsed donors over the summer!
We’ve all seen a dip in giving over the summer – vacation, pool days, or families just taking it easy on the weekends, means attendance is typically down. If you have donors that only drop a check/cas...
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Challenge these people to give more this Christmas.
One of the things we implemented in GivFlow that didn’t work out like we though, was tracking an “increased”, “decreased”, or “constant” status relative to a donors last gift. So if a donor gave $1 th...
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The 2 best Planning Center Lists You Can Implement w/ GivFlow Today.
GivFlow is super powerful! I’ll be honest, though. Planning Center might be more powerful as a whole – it has more data than we do! We recognize this, and that’s why we sync our data back into PCO.
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