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How to Invoice Sponsors and Attendees for Altru Fundraising Events

How to Invoice Sponsors and Attendees for Altru Fundraising Events

By socialgoodsoftware · October 31, 2026

A sponsor commits to a table at your gala in August. Their accounts payable department won’t release a check until it gets an invoice with your tax ID, an invoice number, and a due date. You go looking in Altru for a “create invoice” option on the event registration and come up empty-handed, or with

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How to Get Your Favicon on Altru Web Forms (and What Limits It)

How to Get Your Favicon on Altru Web Forms (and What Limits It)

By socialgoodsoftware · October 31, 2026

A visitor clicks “Buy tickets” on your website, and the browser tab switches from your logo to a generic icon, or to someone else’s. It’s a small thing, but people do notice. A tab that suddenly looks different is one more reason to wonder whether they’ve left your site, and that doubt shows up when

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How to Delete or Inactivate Many Constituents at Once in Altru

How to Delete or Inactivate Many Constituents at Once in Altru

By socialgoodsoftware · October 31, 2026

Sooner or later every Altru database picks up a pile of constituent records nobody wants: a test import that went sideways, years of one-time ticket buyers with no email, records created twice by a web form. The natural instinct is to select them all and hit delete. Altru doesn’t make that easy, and there are

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How to Record Unnamed Guests in Altru Without Creating New Records

How to Record Unnamed Guests in Altru Without Creating New Records

By socialgoodsoftware · October 31, 2026

A board member registers for your spring gala and brings two guests. You know one guest’s name and that the other is vegetarian. Neither of them will ever give you another dollar, and you’d rather not add two thin constituent records that someone has to clean up next year. Where does that information go? Altru

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How to Track Weather Alongside Daily Admission in Altru

How to Track Weather Alongside Daily Admission in Altru

By socialgoodsoftware · October 31, 2026

A Saturday in May is down a third from last year. Was it the rain, the new exhibit next door, or a pricing change? Without a weather record next to your admission numbers, nobody can say, and the same argument comes back at every budget meeting. For outdoor sites like zoos, gardens, and historic grounds,

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How to See Registration Options for a Constituent’s Altru Registrations

How to See Registration Options for a Constituent’s Altru Registrations

By socialgoodsoftware · October 31, 2026

A parent calls to ask whether they signed up for the member rate or the nonmember rate on next month’s camp week. You open their constituent record, click into registrations, and see the event, the date, and a status. What you don’t see is the one detail the caller actually wants: which registration option they

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How to Categorize and Tag Program Events in Altru

How to Categorize and Tag Program Events in Altru

By socialgoodsoftware · October 31, 2026

Pull a list of everything you ran last spring and try to answer a simple question: how many of those events were school programs, how many were family weekends, and how many were adults-only evenings? In a lot of Altru databases, the honest answer is “let me go through them one by one.” The data

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How to Show Multiple Programs on One Calendar in Altru

How to Show Multiple Programs on One Calendar in Altru

By socialgoodsoftware · October 31, 2026

You run general admission, a planetarium show, and a behind-the-scenes tour. In Altru each one is its own program with its own events. A visitor planning a Saturday wants to see all three on one calendar and pick times that don’t collide. Your website, meanwhile, shows three separate ticketing pages, or one long list with

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How to Reprint Altru Membership Cards From Daily and Advance Sales

How to Reprint Altru Membership Cards From Daily and Advance Sales

By socialgoodsoftware · October 31, 2026

A member walks up to the admissions window, digs through their wallet, and realizes the card is at home, cracked, or went through the wash. The cashier is already in Altru’s daily sales screen with a line behind the member. What they want is a fresh card, printed right there, without leaving the transaction or

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Early Renewals in Altru: Timing Upgrades and Downgrades Fairly

Early Renewals in Altru: Timing Upgrades and Downgrades Fairly

By socialgoodsoftware · October 31, 2026

Two members walk up to the desk in October, and both have memberships that expire in December. One wants to move up from Family to Patron. The other wants to drop from Family to Individual. Most people would handle these two differently. The upgrader wants the new benefits now. The downgrader wants to keep the

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How to Group Altru Users by Area for High-Attendance Admission Days

How to Group Altru Users by Area for High-Attendance Admission Days

By socialgoodsoftware · October 31, 2026

On a holiday Monday you might have twenty people logged into Altru at once: admissions cashiers, a membership table by the entrance, a group sales coordinator checking in buses, a supervisor handling refunds, and a few volunteers who were added last Thursday. Keeping track of who should be able to do what, and who sold

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Adding Images, Video or HTML to Altru Web Form Descriptions

Adding Images, Video or HTML to Altru Web Form Descriptions

By socialgoodsoftware · October 31, 2026

A photo of the behind-the-scenes penguin encounter sells it better than three sentences of text. So does a short clip of the summer camp, or a bulleted list of what each membership level includes. When the program goes on sale through an Altru web form, though, the description area often gives you far less room

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