CharityEngine’s User Center is the self-service center for an Organization’s constituents. Any contact that exists in CharityEngine also has credentials to manage their Contact in the User Center.

Navigate to the User Center by going to Online > User Center > Configure.

General Tab

Mark the User Center as Active if it not is already active. Select the User Center V1 Starter Template as the Template.

Note: The Starter Template includes Global Tokens configured about your Organization like External Name, Logo, and Address. To update or this data, go to your Account Settings).

Contact Tab

To utilize the Single Line Address feature, enable it here.

Signup Tab

To allow users to create new accounts for the User Center, turn on Enable Signup.

Donations Tab

To show the donation history of the logged-in user in the User Center, click on Show Donations. Donors can download their tax receipts for each of their donations if the Enable Tax Ack. Download is enabled. The Tax Ack. Template selected is the tax receipt template that will be used for all receipts generated in the User Center.

By default, the three most recent gifts will appear. To see the full history, users should select See More. The tax receipt for any single gift can be generated in PDF form by clicking on Print under Tax Receipt.

The Print icon gives users the option to download receipts for all transactions from the current tax year and the last tax year.

Subscriptions

In this tab administrators can configure the options they want available for users to view and/or update their memberships and sustainers in CharityEngine. To show the section, either Enable Sustainer or Enable Memberships need to be marked as Yes. 

Events Tab

To show the upcoming event registrations of the user, Enable Events in this tab.

Email Tab

In this tab, administrators can configure the auto-responder templates for Account Verification (if signup is enabled) and Password Reset. By default, two templates are available to use, but the Email Subject, Email Reply To, and Email Display Name must be configured.

Domains Tab

The web address of the User Center is determined on the Domains tab. From the Domains drop down select usercenter.charityengine.net (which is the default URL location) or a custom domain already configured for the User Center and enter what you would like the domain suffix to be and Click Add.

Note: If no custom domain is configured, a good suffix is your organization’s name.

After configuring the User Center’s domain and selecting oldragtrust as the Suffix, the User Center in this example, can be found at: https://usercenter.charityengine.net/oldragtrust

Note: If you would like to use a vanity domain, contact support or your account representative.

NOTE: Make sure you update your domain before saving!

Opt-in Lists Tab

General Tab

To show Opt-in Lists for that users can subscribe to, mark Enable Opt In List as Yes. To allow users to unsubscribe from Opt-in lists, mark Enable Unsubscribe as Yes.

Note: If the opt-in list is enabled in the user center, you must also enable the Unsubscribe or donor will not be able to unsubscribe.

Lists Tab

On the lists tab, administrators can configure which lists they want users to be able to subscribe to or unsubscribe from. To add a list, select an already configured list in the Campaigns section of CharityEngine and enter the external/friendly name that should appear in the User Center and Click Add.

The order that lists are added is reflected in the User Center, so add the lists you want to appear at the top first.

 You can change the name the constituents see in the User Center by changing the Friendly Name. You can edit the Friendly Name by managing the List.

Note: For directions on how to create new Opt-in lists click here.

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