Let members add a donation when they join

Joining your PTA or booster club is the perfect moment to ask for a little extra. Now you can attach one of your Donation Drives to a plain membership so parents see a simple “would you like to add a donation?” option right when they sign up.

To turn it on, open the membership campaign, go to the Store tab, expand Advanced Settings, and check “Include a donation with this membership.” Then pick which Donation Drive you want to offer alongside it. This works for standard memberships. Tiered memberships (Gold/Silver/Bronze style) aren’t eligible.

Parents see a friendly opt-in row when they buy the membership. Say yes, and the Donation Drive’s suggested amounts show up, along with an “Other” box to type a custom amount, whatever attribution question the drive asks, a spot for their name on the donor wall, and monthly installments if you’ve turned those on for the drive.

Behind the scenes, saying yes adds two items to the cart, the membership and the donation, so the gift keeps its own fund, its own receipt, and its own tax-deductible status and reporting instead of getting folded into membership dues. Your books stay clean and the parent only checks out once. If either campaign has a form attached, the membership’s form is collected first and the donation’s second, and the setting carries over safely when you roll over to a new school year.