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Development / Fundraising track

24 lessons, in order. Each one links to the help topic it teaches, a task to try on your own venue, and a three-question checkpoint.

  1. 1.
    The venue hub — navigation and quick links

    Venue admins can orient themselves in the venue hub and navigate to any major section.

  2. 2.
    The patron record — what it is and how it's built

    Fundraising staff understand how patrons are created, what data they hold, and how they relate to ticket buyers.

  3. 3.
    The patron detail page — tabs and giving history

    Fundraising staff can read a patron's giving history, ticket history, marketing consent, and custom fields in one place.

  4. 4.
    Households — grouping patrons, combined giving

    Fundraising staff can create households, add members, view combined giving, and use them for one-email-per-household mailings.

  5. 5.
    Funds and appeals — setup and management

    Fundraising staff can create restricted and unrestricted funds, create appeals with goal tracking, and generate donation links.

  6. 6.
    Recording a manual gift (check, cash, in-kind)

    Fundraising staff can record a donation received outside Noctern.

  7. 7.
    Gift acknowledgments — generating and sending

    Fundraising staff can send individual acknowledgments, run batch acknowledgments, and customize receipt language.

  8. 8.
    Year-end giving statements — generate, review, and email

    Fundraising staff can generate IRS-compliant year-end statements, batch-email them, and download PDFs.

  9. 9.
    Reviewing and merging duplicate patrons

    Fundraising staff can find duplicate patron records, choose a survivor, and merge all history onto the surviving record.

  10. 10.
    Editing or voiding a gift

    Fundraising staff can correct a recording error on a non-card gift, or void a duplicate entry.

  11. 11.
    Soft credits and matching gifts

    Fundraising staff can record that a patron solicited a gift or that an employer is matching a donation.

  12. 12.
    Pledges — creating, tracking, and custom schedules

    Fundraising staff can record a multi-installment pledge, track payments, and build a custom payment schedule.

  13. 13.
    Recurring donors (sustainers) — setup and management

    Fundraising staff can view recurring gift schedules, and donors can update their own sustainer from their profile.

  14. 14.
    Signing in as box office staff

    Staff can log in, reach the box office dashboard, and understand what they can and can't access.

  15. 15.
    Looking up or creating a patron at the box office

    Staff can find an existing patron, create a new one, or proceed as a guest — and understand the badges shown.

  16. 16.
    Selecting seats and pricing categories at the box office

    Staff can pick reserved seats or GA quantities, assign pricing categories per seat, and see the running total.

  17. 17.
    Payment methods at the box office (card, cash, check)

    Staff understand the available tender types, when each applies, and how to record a single-tender payment.

  18. 18.
    Completing a sale and what happens next

    Staff understand the success state, what emails are sent, and how to find the order afterward.

  19. 19.
    Refunding a ticket (box office staff view)

    Staff understand what refunds they can process, the role limits, and when to escalate to a venue admin.

  20. 20.
    Converting a ticket refund to a donation

    Fundraising staff can refund a ticket and immediately record the amount as a charitable gift instead of returning money.

  21. 21.
    Selling a gift certificate at the box office

    Staff can sell a gift certificate by cash or card, issue staff credit, and look up a patron's balance.

  22. 22.
    Gift certificates and account credit — donor perspective

    Fundraising staff can issue account credit as a refund alternative and understand how donors view and use their balance.

  23. 23.
    Importing patron data from a previous system

    Staff overseeing a migration can understand the import process and know what to do after import.

  24. 24.
    Activity log — who did what and when

    Admins can search the activity log to see who performed any admin action and why.

Finished everything? Open your completion page — it prints on one page with your name, venue and the date.