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how to automate account soft credits in salesforce

by Durward Herzog PhD Published 2 years ago Updated 2 years ago
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Click, then click Setup. In Setup, enter Profiles in the Quick Find box, then click Profiles. Edit the profiles of all users who will work with Account soft credits. Click Object Settings, then click Account Soft Credits.

Create Automated Soft Credits for the Primary Contact on an Organizational Gift
  1. Find or create an Organization Account.
  2. Click the Related tab.
  3. Find the Opportunities related list and click New.
  4. Choose the Donation record type.
  5. Enter these values: ...
  6. Click Save.
Oct 30, 2018

Full Answer

How do I manually assign soft credits?

Create manual soft credits when you need to assign partial soft credits, assign soft credits to organizations, or for any special soft credit scenarios that arise. Create an Opportunity Contact Role manually to assign a single soft credit. This is useful for unique scenarios that aren't covered by automated soft credits.

Does the status field affect automated soft credits?

Additionally, the Status field does not affect automated soft credits—soft credits function regardless of a Current or Former value in the Status field.

How do I give soft credit to a contact?

Assign the appropriate contact role to the contact to which you want to give soft credit. In this case, Sofia assigns her board member Robert the Solicitor contact role. 4. Click Save. Sofia can manually add a contact role to any donation once she's saved it.

What are soft credits and how do they work?

Soft credits are a fundraising concept that represent recognition of credit for donations. Soft credits help you to better understand a donor's history and their level of influence. In the Nonprofit Success Pack ( NPSP ), many soft credits are assigned automatically, and you can assign soft credits manually.

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How do I manage soft credits in Salesforce?

Add More Account Soft Credit RolesClick. , then click Setup.Click the Object Manager tab.In the list of items, click Account Soft Credit.Click Fields & Relationships.In the list of fields, click Role. Then scroll down to the Values related list.Click New and enter new Role values. ... Click Save.

Can you soft credit an account in Salesforce?

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How are soft credits assigned in Npsp?

NPSP assigns soft credits to Contacts associated with Relationship records. For example, your organization wants to recognize gifts that board members help to bring in by assigning a soft credit each time donors with whom they have a Relationship record in NPSP make donations.

What is a partial soft credit?

A partial soft credit is a soft credit for an amount that is only a portion of the larger donation. For example, organizations like Network for Good and United Way collect donations on behalf of an organization's constituents, and typically share them with nonprofits on a regular basis (monthly or quarterly).

How do soft credits work?

A soft credit occurs when a donor makes a gift but credits someone else for it. The hard credit goes to the account or donor. However, a soft credit goes to the one who receives the credit for it.

What is soft credit amount?

Overview. Soft credits are donations that are made to your organization by a major entity like a charitable foundation, and the total of the donation is made up of other individual entities. For example: $1,000 is donated from United Way, and they send a list of the two donors who made up this entire donation.

What is a soft credit in Donorperfect?

Soft-Crediting Donations Soft Credits let you assign credit for a donation to one or more people who are not the donor. For example, a donation might be donated by "Joe Donor", but you may also want to attribute it to "Frank Fundraiser", who was responsible for getting the donation from Joe Donor.

What is a soft credit in Raiser's Edge?

A soft credit allows you to credit multiple constituents for the same gift and control how the soft credit amount figures into reports and giving totals. By using a soft credit, you can ensure each constituent who deserves recognition, such as a spouse or primary business, receives it.

What is a soft credit in NPSP?

With household member soft credits, everyone in the household receives a soft credit for a donation made by anyone else in the household. The typical example is between spouses. If a person makes a donation and is specified in NPSP as the donor, that person's spouse (as a household member) receives soft credit.

Does No More Homelessness give soft credit?

As we mentioned, No More Homelessness (NMH) wants to assign soft credit to Robert Bullard for the donations he brought in from his house party fundraiser. The simplest way to give Robert soft credit for the checks he brought in is to manually add his contact role to each opportunity (donation) record.

When are account soft credits available?

You can also optionally add more Account Soft Credit roles. Account Soft Credits are available as of NPSP version 3.137 (August 2018).

What are the roles in Account Soft Credit?

By default, Account soft credits have three default roles: Donation Source, Influencer, and Match. You may need to set up additional roles based on your org and business processes. You create new roles by editing the Role picklist values on the Account Soft Credit object.

How to edit soft credits in Outlook?

In Setup, enter Profiles in the Quick Find box, then click Profiles. Edit the profiles of all users who will work with Account soft credits. Click Object Settings, then click Account Soft Credits. Click Edit and set the object permissions to Read, Create, Edit, and Delete.

How to get the most value out of account soft credits?

Enable Account Soft Credits. To get the most value out of Account Soft Credits, you'll want to enable Customizable Rollups so you can roll up the soft credit values to the Account records. At this time, you can't roll up Account soft credits to legacy NPSP rollups or User Defined Rollups.

How to enable automatic soft credit in NPSP?

To enable Automated Household Member soft credits: Click , then click NPSP Settings. Click Donations | Contact Roles. Click Edit. If it is not already selected, select Household Contact Roles On. In the Household Member Contact Role field, select the Contact Role you want to use for automatic soft crediting.

What is soft credit?

Soft credits represent recognition credit for donations. For example, when a company matches an employee's gift, the employee gets a soft credit for the matching gift. Learn more in Soft Credits Overview.

Can NPSP automatically credit a contact?

NPSP can automatically credit the Contact named in the Primary Contact field on an Organizational Opportunity.

What is soft credit?

A soft credit is a credit for a donation that a contact or donor did not actually make, but may have somehow influenced. A common example of a soft credit is credit for a matching gift: if a donor gives $50 to your organization, and their company matches it, the total donation will be $100. The original donor therefore gave $50 plus ...

What are some examples of soft credits?

Examples of soft credits include matched donations, donations given by another member of the household, peer-to-peer fundraising, donor advised funds, or donations that someone influenced by being part of a board.

Why do nonprofits track soft credits?

Nonprofits like to track soft credits to capture the total influence that their contacts have on donations that they may not have given directly. Capturing this data accurately is important for accounting purposes, and for nonprofits to expand their fundraiser and donor bases.

How to delete a record in a flow?

Step 1: Create a Flow that will delete the record. Step 2: Create the Process Builder to determine the criteria for launching the Flow. Step 3: Have the Process Builder (from step 2) call the Flow (from step 1). Follow the steps below to set this up: Step 1: Create an Autolaunched Flow.

Does a primary opportunity contact receive a hard credit?

The primary opportunity contact role (donor) will always receive a hard credit for a donation in NPSP. All other household members will automatically receive a soft credit role of Household Member on the same opportunity.

Is the $50 donation a hard or soft credit?

In the Nonprofit Success Pack, or NPSP, you can track the original $50 as a hard credit (the actual donation itself), and the matched $50 as a “soft” credit because the donor influenced the donation, but did not actually make it themselves. In the Nonprofit Success Pack, Opportunity Contact Roles are used to identify the contacts ...

What is soft credit?

Soft credits are a fundraising concept that represent recognition of credit for donations. Soft credits help you to better understand a donor's history and their level of influence. In the Nonprofit Success Pack ( NPSP ), many soft credits are assigned automatically, and you can assign soft credits manually. NPSP summarizes soft credit history ...

What is partial soft credit?

Create Partial Soft Credit records to assign portions of a soft credit to one or more Contacts. For example, let's say your board of directors assist with fundraising. If two board members work together to win a large contribution from a major donor, you could use Partial Soft Credits to assign 50% of the soft credit for the major gift to each board member.

Where to find soft credit rollups?

You can find soft credit rollup fields in the Soft Credit Total section of a Contact record.

Does OCR count as soft credit?

If your admin designates that an OCR should count as a soft credit, then any Contact assigned that OCR receives a soft credit. Your administrator can help you understand which OCRs are configured to count as soft credits in your org.

Who receives the hard credit for a gift?

Everyone in a Household receives credit for a donation made by any other Household member. The donor receives a hard credit for the gift and everyone else receives the Household Member soft credit.

Does the Success Pack have soft credit?

The Nonprofit Success Pack calculates soft credit rollups in its nightly batch, so you won't see an immediate change to a Contact's soft credit rollup fields right after you assign them a soft credit Contact Role. If you want to see updates immediately, your administrator can manually recalculate rollups.

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Learning Objectives

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After completing this unit, you’ll be able to: 1. Add and edit soft credits. 2. Understand automated soft credits.
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Manual Soft Credits

  • As we mentioned, No More Homelessness (NMH) wants to assign soft credit to Robert Bullard for the donations he brought in from his house party fundraiser. The simplest way to give Robert soft credit for the checks he brought in is to manually add his contact role to each opportunity (donation) record. Let's follow NMH Development Associate Sofia as she adds a contact role of …
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Automated Soft Credits

  • As mentioned, manually adding contact roles to your opportunity records is the simplest way to assign soft credit to a donor—but, as we covered earlier, donations can come in a variety of ways and be attributed to different types of influencers within your organization. So, you might also need to accommodate other household or family attribution, d...
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Household Member Soft Credits

  • Don't worry, we aren't going to dig into the details of every type of automated soft credit in this unit, but we do want to take a minute to review the most common one—household member soft credits. With household member soft credits, everyone in the household receives a soft credit for a donation made by anyone else in the household. The typical example is between spouses. If a …
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A Word About The Nightly Batch

  • As we mentioned, NPSP calculates soft credit rollups in its nightly batch, so you won't see an immediate change to a contact's soft credit rollup fields right after you assign them a qualified contact role. If you want to see updates immediately, you can have your admin manually recalculate rollups or you can use the recalculate rollups button on the contact or account. Getti…
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Resources

  1. NPSP documentation:Soft Credits Overview
  2. NPSP how-to video: Manage Soft Credits
  3. NPSP how-to video: Tribute Opportunities
  4. NPSP documentation:Manually Recalculate Rollups
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