Community funding via Make-it-Happen and direct sponsorship is the key driver behind improving and adding features to CiviCRM. If your organization could benefit from any of the projects on this page, make a contribution and Make it Happen. If you're able to sponsor a feature at a level above $5,000 - please contact us (info at civicrm dot org) about alternative payment methods.

These features are up for sponsorship for the 4.2 release:

• CiviMobile - CiviCRM for mobile devices
• Offer Donors a Chioce of Payment Processors
• CMS Agnostic Modules as CiviCRM Extensions
• Multiple membership renewal reminders
• Relative date filters for all search forms
• UK Direct Debit

These features are fully funded for the 4.2 release:

• Accounting Integration Improvements
• CiviSMS - SMS blasts and interactions
• Mass Dedupe and Merge - Batch merging for groups of duplicate contacts

 

CiviMobile

CiviCRM for mobile devices. This includes iPhone, Android, iPad, Blackberry and more. This version will include the ability to view/search contacts and see most of the details of each contact. It will also have the ability to create/edit contacts, and handle event attendee check-in.

 

 

 

Offer Donors a Choice of Payment Processors

This MIH adds the ability to offer a choice of available payment processors to donors using online contribution pages. Administrators will be able to select one OR MORE enabled processors when configuring each contribution page..

 

 

CMS Agnostic Modules as CiviCRM Extensions

This MIH will open up the existing CiviCRM extensions architecture to allow developers to build and distribute powerful CMS Agnostic modules. These modules can leverage the full power of Civi's hooks and API's to inject new forms, pages, fields, and more.

This improvement will also allow existing CMS-specific modules or components to be migrated to an extension that can be used regardless of the host CMS (as long as the module doesn't rely on CMS-specific functions). For example the extremely useful, but "Drupal-only" CiviEvent Discount module could be converted into an extension that could be used by a Joomla! or WordPress hosted CiviCRM site.

 

 

Multiple membership renewal reminders

Administrators will be able to configure an unlimited number of reminders at specified dates relative to the membership expiration, and configure different message templates as needed for each reminder.

 

 

 

Relative date filters for all search forms

Allow users to enter relative date filters such as "Current year-to-date", "Current month-to-date", "Last year", etc. on all search forms. This will be particularly useful for "smart groups" (i.e. saved searches). Users will now be able to create a smart group for "people donating more than $500 this year to date" ... for example, without needing to periodically modify the smart group criteria.

 

 

 

UK Direct Debit Integration

Direct debit integration will allow UK based non profits to connect to a UK based direct debit provider and process recurring direct debit payments.

Requirements and specification are being developed here:
http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRM/Direct+Debit+integration+%28UK%29+requirements+and+specification

The specification will be finalised before work commences based on requirements expressed by contributors.  We can't guarantee to fulfill all requirements so please discuss any specific questions you have with us before adding requirements to the page and contributing to this MIH.

This MIH will by carried out by Eileen on behalf of CiviCRM LLC.

Please note that sponsorships for Make it Happen projects and contributions to the CiviCRM general development fund are not deductible as a charitable donation under United States law. Consult your tax advisor if you have questions about deductibility.

 

 

Successful Campaigns

Accounting integration improvements and Quickbooks integration

This initiative is the first step towards enabling better integration of accounting concepts and systems with CiviCRM. It encompasses the implementation of a number of data changes to make further enhancements possible, as well as providing Quickbooks integration via IIF file export (and integration with other packages via CSV export).

 

 

 

CiviSMS

Support for SMS blasts and interactions, targeting the following features:

• Broadcast an SMS message with token support to a group of contacts via workflows similar to Send Email and CiviMail
• Collect responses from the above message and associate it with the message and the sender
• Validate and store the response as a survey answer
• Integrate with multiple SMS gateways - ClickaTell, Twilio and Tropo

 

 

 

Batch Dedupe and Merge

Have too many duplicate contacts (like CiviCRM.org)? Have no idea where to start the merge process? Then you need to support this MIH. The features include:

• Batch merge a set of merge pairs using either Safe Merge or Aggressive Merge
  • Safe Merge - Merge only if no conflicts detected. Do not overwrite any data.
  • Aggressive Merge - No rules, just merge
• A standalone script that merges all contacts in the DB, or merges contacts in specified group(s)