Yes, edit the donation record in MinistryPlatform and set Anonymous to Yes. However, this capability does not YET exist on the Mission Trip Donations portal page. Therefore, if that portal page is the source of the donation, you'll have to apply the Anonymous field after the fact. The delay in applying that bit field may lead to a gap in time where the trip participant might see the donor's name on the My Mission Trips page if church policy allows them to see that list.

Pat them on the back! Consider lowering the "total pledge" goal of other mission trip participants.

Consider having a fake pledge to a "General Trip Participant" donor with a $0 Total Pledge. When you credit that record with donations, then you can lower the total pledge of the trip participants who had a hand in the team-based fundraising event.

You can track trip expenses only if you create a custom page for this purpose and connect it to the Pledge Campaign record. Currently tracking trip expenses is outside of the scope of the standard MinistryPlatform implementation.

Yes, leave the Registration Deposit field on the Pledge Campaign record blank or with $0.

The Mission Trip Registration does not need a Custom Form to work, but you can incorporate a Custom Form to collect additional data.

First, create a contact with the Add A Company Tool called something like General Trip Support. This tool also creates the donor record. Add a pledge assigned to that contact for your trip. Then, edit the beneficiary text in the pledge to control what shows on Portal.

If you want to take gifts online later, make the start date of the Pledge Campaign for that trip a future start date. If the trip is no longer taking online donations, make the end date of the Pledge Campaign for that trip a past end date. If you have a mission trip that you never want to display, even though it is currently accepting donations, then you may need to create a new Pledge Campaign Type. You may use something like "Internal Trip/Project", as only the existing "Mission Trip" pledge campaign type displays online.

Make sure you have a value set for Maximum Registrants in the Pledge Campaign. You also need to set a value for the Registration Deposit field. If you don't want a deposit, you can set this field value to 0.

You can put $0 for the amount and 0 for the installments. These values are more important for pledges that are part of a capital campaign.

Make sure that the Mission Trip registration End Date is in the past.

Make sure that the End Date is in the past.

By default, the Mission Trip registration page does not require people to sign in to sign up. However, you can set it up to require a login, if needed. When someone signs up for the Mission Trip, MinistryPlatform adds them to the Event automatically as a Registered Participant. They will also have a Pending Pledge created in the Pledge Campaign.

Yes, there are a couple ways you can do this:

• Give the needed staff members rights to the Impersonate Portal User Tool. Then, they can impersonate the Trip Leader and see the overall progress and details for the trip.
• Set the needed staff members up as Trip Leaders by creating a Pledge, setting their Pledge to $0 and Complete, and marking them as the leader. Then, they can log in to the Portal as themselves and see the overall progress and details for the trip.

Yes, there a couple ways you can do this:

• Create a filtered page for those specific people to access pledge campaigns or pledges of the mission trip type.
• Create a security role that grants rights to the mission trip reports on the Events page.