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Yesterday
@HAhmed-WMF All gateways across the Chariot gifts have been updated to Gateway = Chariot in Civi.
Tue, Jun 16
Noting here we have successfully processed 3 transactions through the Gr4vy flow and metadata looks good. However we are not seeing the donations in Civi. @Eileenmcnaughton is investigating.
Tue, Jun 9
@Dwisehaupt Thanks!
Mon, Jun 8
Thanks @Lars! Let me know once it's live.
Wed, Jun 3
Fri, May 29
Sounds good!
Thanks for spotting this @RLewis !
Got it, thanks!
Thu, May 28
This is super helpful, thank you! I would say the 3 contacts would be helpful as well especially because those take a bit more time to merge.
@Eileenmcnaughton We shouldn't normally be getting planned gifts through Chariot. That was a one-off situation where we had to go in after and update the gift information.
May 1 2026
@Eileenmcnaughton Are Fund and Gift Type already set up? I know those are in the metadata as well.
Apr 29 2026
@Lars Ahh thank you!
Apr 28 2026
@Lars I tried to import, but got this page - I assumed it was due to the changes made.
@MRitch-WMF I will need to hold off on uploading the Welcome Package activities Suzanne just sent over for April, but I don't think that should be an issue to wait until end of May, right?
Noting that we are currently testing and working through some troubleshooting with Gr4vy and Engage. Looping in @MRitch-WMF for visibility.
Checking in on how this is going/if anything is needed on our end at this point. @Eileenmcnaughton Not sure if work on this has fully kicked off yet.
Apr 15 2026
@MRitch-WMF Good to know, thanks!
@MRitch-WMF Just an FYI that there will be a delay on importing the May DM activities since this update will be done during 5/11-5/15 and I will be OOO through 5/25. Will complete the import on 5/26 when I am back in office.
Apr 3 2026
MOTO has been enabled by Adyen and Gr4vy is doing some prep work before we are able to start live testing.
Apr 1 2026
@Lars Looks good to me, I'm not seeing any pop-up from today's activity import.
@Lars Sounds good, will do!
@Lars I've gotten a new batch of DM activities to import, should I hold off for now?
Yes, stocks through Bank of America are hand entered and gifts on pledges are hand entered since we don't currently have the capability of applying an imported gift to a pledge. Maybe a one-off from an EFT that MG has a more urgent need to be entered asap as well.
Mar 30 2026
@Lars @AKanji-WMF Some donors request a one-off TYL to be mailed to them or emailed in a PDF format. If we could have a letter generated that can then be printed and mailed from the office that would be great.
@Eileenmcnaughton I am not sure exactly how its all allocated, maybe Erica has more insight. But on our end we differentiate between Endowment and Major gifts in our coding. So if the gift has been allocated by the donor to go to END or it is a QCD (gift type = retirement fund) or legacy gift (gift type = realized bequest) then the financial type = Endowment Gift and the Fund = Endowment Fund.
Mar 19 2026
Mar 10 2026
@Lars Great! cc @BJordan-WMF @Elbar53
Mar 9 2026
@Eileenmcnaughton Got it, thanks!
Mar 6 2026
Mar 4 2026
Feb 26 2026
Hi all, due to some extra data security work that is needed on Gr4vy's side the testing stage has been pushed back to the week of March 9.
Feb 25 2026
Thank you! I will follow up again once we are ready to go live with this new coding/processing through Gr4vy.
Feb 24 2026
@JMando @Eileenmcnaughton We spoke to Gr4vy today and they should have their sandbox deployment work done by the end of this week. They plan to use next week for testing. @Eileenmcnaughton @Lars, do you think we can get the new Channel added to Civi before next week?
Feb 23 2026
@JMando - @Eileenmcnaughton will need to add the channel to Civi and then Gr4vy has said they should be done with their work by end of February. Then we can start testing. At that point we will coordinate with fr-tech to translate the IPN Gr4vy sends and make sure these gifts are showing in Civi correctly. I can add updates to this thread as we follow Gr4vy's progress, etc. so everyone is aware of when changes are active.
Feb 18 2026
@JMando Does adding this sub channel for Direct Mail cause any issue on your end? Could we add this to Direct Mail tracking so that both channels are getting pulled in?
Feb 9 2026
Updating here that we've looped @Eileenmcnaughton in on our email thread with Chariot regarding this. They told us that dashboard APIs are going live later this month, which is what we'll need to get the data out of Chariot into Civi. We will have to wait until then to investigate further.
@Lars That's great! I will keep an eye out when I process this week.
Feb 6 2026
@Elbar53 you can relay the information to Caitlin/Evelyn and see what they say as far as urgency.
Agreed! I think matching the zip would help as it seems that is more commonly included in the donor info. @Lars
Feb 2 2026
Jan 28 2026
@Lars Just want to jump in on this and say since the gift data is recorded on the DAF when present that record gets pulled into our list to send TYLs to. So we would want the contact information there to send acknowledgements to by email or mailing address.
@Lars It looks like we have the unique match rule for fidelity and Engage Organization import (below), but for Benevity we have the "first match" rule like you mentioned. I guess I am slightly confused on the difference between the two?
@Lars I would say save the existing data as secondary if it is different than what is already on the record. This would likely be our most up to date information if it was sent in with the gift, but the address/email history is still there. I agree with sharing from the Individual to the DAF so if one is updated with a new primary then both contacts are.
Jan 27 2026
I will go ahead and import the ones above!
@Lars I don't believe I have seen it before, or if I have it has been a long time. I think this error when it shows up for not creating any record at all is more of a hinderance because we want it to create the record if one doesn't exist. If it has the same details as something already in Civi the import should dedupe based on the dedupe rules in place so I don't see it as having much use right now.
Jan 23 2026
@Lars Here is the error report for a recent Chariot Organization import: https://civicrm.wikimedia.org/civicrm/search#/display/Import_4084/Import_4084?_status=ERROR
Jan 22 2026
@Lars That's great, thanks for figuring this out!
@Eileenmcnaughton The fields in the file are all that I have available to me for the data entry. I'm not sure if more information lives somewhere else in the Paypal console.
Jan 21 2026
@Lars Tried again - here is the error and some screenshots to show formatting:
Jan 20 2026
@RLewis Yes, I would think if you are looking for a tally of incoming gift totals you would need to include the estimated incoming amount on the activity. I would say estimated because there are times where the tracker shows an amount the donor said they were giving but we receive a different amount. This is not super often, but just to be aware they can sometimes not match up. May not cause too much of an issue.
@Lars Very strange - I tried again and the same errors. Here is the page if you are able to take a look: https://civicrm.wikimedia.org/civicrm/import/contact?_qf_Preview_display=true&qfKey=CRMImportController7y2QRVY3fJNZ11BWuRaL6zUfnxFla32N0B5Z2tHs5c9iU_456
@Lars I don't have the error on hand at the moment, but basically it says there was no match found for that Organization name. Then I have to go in and create the record by hand before I can continue to import those gifts. This is using import template ID 3685. I will have more to import later in the week so I can get screenshots then.
@Eileenmcnaughton We enter the paypal grants using batch data entry weekly. All files are saved here that are exported from Paypal and have the donor/donation information if that helps! https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1wMdv7SWqyN09iWNJEGY-fVfu-CGtlTHB?usp=drive_link
Jan 15 2026
Jan 13 2026
@Lars Yes, here are the current two we get the most volume through currently:
Thank you!
@Lars The same thing is happening with a new NCOA file. I also tried to open it as a google sheet and export as a .csv but it's not working for me. The file is here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XY1WPeBuVFTjuBHOJj0v8pDlfPipKdq3/view?usp=drive_link. Any ideas why it's registering as an invalid date format?
Jan 12 2026
Jan 9 2026
@Lars Yes please do! I am not sure how that occurred but noticed it as well. We definitely want 'White Mail' and not the one without a space.
Jan 8 2026
@Eileenmcnaughton @Lars I don't know anything about the 'is major gift' but we are setting the fund info upon import of check gifts.
Jan 7 2026
Ok I think I got these in! Imports should be complete now. @Lars @MRitch-WMF
Dec 31 2025
@Lars Just imported that last large file, but there are 77 that came back with no matching CID - can you help find the correct CID and get these into Civi? https://civicrm.wikimedia.org/civicrm/search#/display/Import_3917/Import_3917?_status=ERROR
Dec 30 2025
Thanks!
@Eileenmcnaughton Sorry I accidentally shared the wrong version of the file. Here is the correct one: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KORv4UJlT8szYClqh8JGwv9nz0l1APLH/view?usp=drive_link
The other two updated files are imported!
@Lars Could you upload the Individual WMF file saved here to Civi so I can import the updated activities? https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qdtzaIcii1JufTzV9g0WpNuM1dG8gnCI/edit?usp=drive_link&ouid=110785378642940298706&rtpof=true&sd=true
Dec 23 2025
Dec 16 2025
@Lars Thanks for sorting this out! I am out the rest of the week, so if we need this in sooner I won't be able to but can put it on my to-dos for next week.
Dec 9 2025
@Lars Was wondering if in the meantime we would be able to create two import templates for linked payers we are getting majority of gifts through currently: Groundswell and Daffy. Or is that too much work? Depending on the lift this could help cover our needs between now and getting the double soft credit feature for imports. Otherwise we are having to add that banking institution to each contribution manually since I don't think adding a soft credit/type is available as a mass update field in Civi (if we were to try and add the soft credit in bulk after import).
Dec 4 2025
Dec 3 2025
@Lars Agreed, I think creating the address for the individual and then sharing that with the DAF in an automated way would be a big help. This also applied to our batch data entry work. Not only if this is information is coming in through an import, but also if there is that DAF relationship link for an Org and individual that already exist in Civi for it to auto apply to the DAF if there is no address/email info there.
@Lars Ah I think I understand, yes it would be ideal to automate this if we can! Perhaps alongside the 2026 work.
Dec 2 2025
@Lars good to know about the second soft credit difficulty level. It's great having that feature in batch data entry and was hoping there could be something similar for imports where we can map two different soft credits and soft credit types to the contribution for importing DAFs. We are hoping to utilized DAFpay more especially in 2026 so it would be great to have this on a roadmap for an early 2026 timeframe if we can. Let me know how that sounds. I think we are planning to use this payment method in Direct Mail down the road as well and we will need this capability if we are going to be able to scale on this payment method.
@Lars Thanks this is a big help! Will note that link to import future appeal/package codes.
Nov 26 2025
Thank you @Lars ! These are now in Civi.
Nov 25 2025
@Lars Here are the two files. All of the appeal codes are already in Civi, but I created a file as an example in case it is helpful for setup.
Nov 24 2025
The full list @JMando would be able to weigh in on. I believe they have a static universe of CIDs they are working with, but not all are pulled in for each mailing. So not sure if it makes sense to run the whole universe to check for merges at a certain frequency or if we would rather run the specific lists for each mailing as we plan who is being pulled in.
@Lars Woops thanks! I have not done that before, but if you send the steps I could try it out.
@Lars I'm not sure I understand what you mean. Faircom creates the full list of CIDs as far as those that are chosen to mail to for each campaign. So if you wanted to look at those ahead of time they would need to send them over so they could be updated if needed with a new CID before finalizing.
Nov 21 2025
@Lars I tried to update the date in the file and reimport with the YYYY-MM-DD format and correct CIDs, but when I do the import the updates I made to the date format in the file are not reflected. I tried to save multiple times and reimport, but it is not showing that I changed it to YYYY-MM-DD in the file. Any ideas?
@Lars Thanks! It looks like those are a part of the Faircom using old CID issue. I will try to find the new CIDs myself since there are so few and reimport.
Nov 20 2025
@Lars I just tried to adjust again and it is still coming back with the error:
@Lars Got it, thanks!
Nov 19 2025
Nov 14 2025
@Lars I got it! Thanks! @Elbar53 @BJordan-WMF This is now implemented in the Navigation menu for batch data entry


