Sphere Idea Bank
How does it work?
1. Sphere users submit their ideas.
2. The community discusses and votes for ideas
3. The best ideas bubble up to the top.
4. Product Management reviews the best ideas for placement on the Sphere product road map
**Please be as descriptive as possible and tell us how the idea would benefit your organization.
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Sphere works in IE9 & IE10
Sphere back end and front end should work in IE9 & IE 10 browser
117 votesstarted ·
AdminRebecca Nevin
(Product Manager, Blackbaud Sphere)
responded
Completed in Phases over 2012 to be done by 12/2012
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Allow monthly donors to update their credit cards
Give donors/monthly donors the ability to update their credit card information online
105 votes -
Improve Sphere's Usability
It take too long to do simple things, the look and feel of Sphere is old, Sphere needs a facelift
92 votesstarted ·
AdminRebecca Nevin
(Product Manager, Blackbaud Sphere)
responded
Targeting Phase 1 Facelift for Summer 2012. Work on this will continue in 2013
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Sphere works in Chrome
Sphere back end and front end should work in the Chrome browser
79 votesplanned ·
AdminRebecca Nevin
(Product Manager, Blackbaud Sphere)
responded
We will be working on this in 2012
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Sphere works in Firefox
Sphere back end and front end should work in the Firefox browser
68 votesplanned ·
AdminRebecca Nevin
(Product Manager, Blackbaud Sphere)
responded
We will be working on this in 2012 & 2013
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Ability to separate out a registration from a donation
We would love the ability to separate out a registration from a donation (when a donation is made at the same time as registration) so that we could move a donation to credit another donor, team, or company.
66 votes -
Add the ability to insert profile fields into the subject line of emails
Will increase open rates for email
64 votesstarted ·
AdminRebecca Nevin
(Product Manager, Blackbaud Sphere)
responded
Targeting Summer 2012
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End of the Year PDF receipt
It would be nice if we could email our donors an end of the year PDF receit they could use to report on their tax returns
59 votes -
Social sign on and sharing in FAF
Allow FAF registrants to sign up/login with Facebook, Google, Yahoo or Twitter login
59 votesstarted ·
AdminRebecca Nevin
(Product Manager, Blackbaud Sphere)
responded
Targeting Summer 2012
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Reduce Fraud
Anything that can help reduce the number of fraudualent transactions would help
57 votesstarted ·
AdminRebecca Nevin
(Product Manager, Blackbaud Sphere)
responded
We will be working on this in 2012. We are currently looking at partners that we can integrate their Fraud serves into Sphere.
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54 votesunder review ·
AdminRebecca Nevin
(Product Manager, Blackbaud Sphere)
responded
Targeting Q1 2013
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Expose field for Donation from Mobile Device
Like to be able to report on which donations came from a mobile device
52 votesstarted ·
AdminRebecca Nevin
(Product Manager, Blackbaud Sphere)
responded
Targeting Summer 2012
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Add registration limits to FAF
Set overall registration limits for FAF events and registion option level limits
51 votesstarted ·
AdminRebecca Nevin
(Product Manager, Blackbaud Sphere)
responded
Targeting Summer 2012
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Enhansed design Options for FAF and add "Doc type" to key FAF pages
Enhansed design options/templates for FAF and add "Doc type" to key FAF pages
50 votesstarted ·
AdminRebecca Nevin
(Product Manager, Blackbaud Sphere)
responded
Targeting Spring 2012
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50 votesplanned ·
AdminRebecca Nevin
(Product Manager, Blackbaud Sphere)
responded
Targeting Summer 2012
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Allow participants to create friendly URLs after they register
Allow Thon participants to create personalized URLs after they register for an event. If a participants opts not to create a personalized URL during registration, the organization would need to ask an engineer to create it after the fact, or unregister the participant, re-register the participant, and re-link all the gifts.
38 votes -
Have the ability to make registratnts inactive or delete them without reversing the transaction
To have the ability to make a registrant inactive or delete their record without refunding them the money. We do not refund registrations so we would like the option to either move the registration fee over to a donation or make them inactive if they can no longer participate.
34 votes -
Ability to create unique email confirmations/auto response (to donation/registrations) based on defined criteria
Merged with this several ideas about having the option to send different email confirmations. Please add your ideas on this topic by commenting
1. Based on language preference. Allow the confirmation to be in the language preferred by the donor/registrant
2 . Based on designation. Each donation form can have several designations that donors choose from. But the form currently has only one email confirmation that has to be generic enough to fit any designation donors had chosen. This is far from ideal so it would be good to have the ability to create an email confirmation for each designation… more
29 votes -
Kintera thon events should have the ability to show more than five top fundraisers on the home page.
Participants like to check their fundraising totals, and the totals of other participants OFTEN. As in every hour often! The front page should show a running list that is longer than five participants. In addition, it would be great if the individual search feature was replaced with a "more" feature. Once into that page, allow people to search. Allowing people to see where all of the other participants rank is great motivation to fundraise more! This is fundraising psychology 101!
27 votesstarted ·
AdminRebecca Nevin
(Product Manager, Blackbaud Sphere)
responded
Summer 2012
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Allow a way to enter multiple event dates for events
Some of our events that cover large areas have multiple event sites with multiple event dates. It would be great if BB could add fields or a way to designate that the event has multiple event dates and what those event dates are, along with the location. More and more of our large events are having multiple event dates and locations. It would be great to be able to indicate this in Blackbaud.
25 votes