With the Make a Pledge widget, people can pledge toward a specific initiative represented by a pledge campaign.

• This widget displays one pledge campaign.
• A progress bar indicates campaign efforts for both pledges and donations made toward those pledges.
• Your church can defined suggested amounts to promote a streamlined giving process, and the widget accepts pledges of any amount.
• Pledges created with this widget receive a pending status by default. You can manage this setting using the Pending Pledge Approval default process to automatically approve the pledge, or create a new process to automatically approve pledges.
• The total pledge is calculated using the Pledge Amount, Frequency, and Start and End Dates fields.
• The default start and end dates are determined as follows:
  • If a pledge campaign's start date is in the past, today's date is the default start date.
  • If a pledge campaign's start date is in the future, the start date is the default start date.
  • If a pledge campaign's end date is blank, the default end date is not set (null).
  • If a pledge campaign's end date is in the past and the campaign still accepts pledges, the default end date is not set.
  • If a pledge campaign's end date is in the future, the end date is the default end date.
  • If a pledge's end date is in the future and the pledge campaign record has Pledge Beyond End Date set to Yes, the pledge's end date is the default end date.
  • If a pledge spans less than a year for an annual pledge, the end date defaults to the start date in MinistryPlatform.
• If the pledge campaign record has an image, it displays. If not, a stock image is used. See Platform Setup for more information about using images.
• Customize the message that displays after someone creates a pledge. Define that text in the Online Thank You Message field on each pledge campaign record. If you leave this field blank, the text of the mpp-pledge-campaign.pledgeFormSuccessMessage application label displays instead. You can personalize the success message. See Platform Configuration for details.

Sections

Description

The pledge campaign's description field.

Progress

This indicates progress amounts, calculates percentages, and offers visual representation.

Suggested Amounts

These are predefined amounts, represented by buttons, set in a widget attribute. The suggested amounts should feel relevant to the pledge campaign and how long the campaign runs.

Pledge Amount

The amount a person expects to give each time they make a donation toward their pledge.

Frequency

How often a person expects to make donations toward their pledge.

Pledge Start Date

The date a person wants to make their first donation.

Pledge End Date

The date a person wants to make their last donation and reach their total pledge. This date may or may not exceed the campaign's end date depending on how you configure the pledge campaign.

Make a Pledge As

With this drop-down list, people who are logged in can select their personal record or the record of a family member. The information of the selected record will autofill when they create a pledge.

Actions

Create Pledge

This action creates a pledge record. Pledges will be assigned to the person if they are logged in or match a contact record. Otherwise, pledges will be assigned to the default contact. Staff can see and approve pledges in MinistryPlatform.

Note: The first name, last name, and either email address or phone number fields are required so the response can match a contact record. You cannot change the required fields.

Setup

See Configuring Make a Pledge to set up your Make a Pledge widget.