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Donorbox

· #352 most-used

Automate nonprofit fundraising — from first donation to loyal recurring donor

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Donorbox is a fundraising platform used by 50,000+ nonprofits, churches, and social enterprises to collect one-time and recurring donations, sell event tickets, manage memberships, and run peer-to-peer and crowdfunding campaigns. Connect Donorbox to Actionist and your agents can react to new donations within about a minute, sync donor records to your CRM and email platform, monitor recurring plan health, reconcile revenue against budgets, and run event attendee workflows — without manual exports or batch delays.

Average time saved
10 hours
per person · per month
≈ 1 workdays back

Eliminates manual work. Agents eliminate manual donation exports, batch thank-you assembly, recurring-plan monitoring, and cross-system donor record syncing that currently consume fundraising and finance staff time.

Schedule

What your Donorbox agent runs on autopilot

A week of scheduled jobs your Actionist agent will execute on your behalf.

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Multi-app workflows

Donorbox × every other app you use

End-to-end automations that span multiple apps — each one a real business outcome.

6Workflows
7Apps spanned
~14 hrsSaved / week
5Personas served
For fundraising
Featured4 apps

Gift lands, CRM updates, and thank-you sends in one motion

When a donation arrives in Donorbox, the agent retrieves the donor's full profile, creates or updates their CRM contact with the gift details, sends a personalized thank-you email, and appends the donation to the weekly revenue tracker — all before the donor has closed their confirmation page.

~5 hrs

Time saved for your team — every week, on autopilot

The flow
Trigger·When a donation is received in Donorbox
Result
Create or update CRM contact with donation amount and campaignSend personalized thank-you email with impact statementAppend donation row to the weekly revenue tracker
The win
Saved per run
8 min
Runs / week
~40×
Every donor is thanked personally within minutes, not batch-processed overnight
Driven byMarketing Agent
ROI

Savings

What your team gets back — two angles: what you stop doing manually, and what that's worth.

Without Actionist

What you do manually today

With Actionist

What your agent runs for you

  • Sales
    35 min / week
    Manual major-gift monitoring

    A gift officer exports donations weekly, scans for large amounts in a spreadsheet, and manually creates CRM tasks — a process that takes 30–45 minutes and is often skipped when the team is busy.

    Sales Agent
    0 min
    Agent surfaces major gifts and flags upgrade candidates weekly

    The Sales Agent scans every incoming donation for major-gift thresholds, logs qualifying gifts to the CRM, and produces a prioritized upgrade list for recurring donors — all before the Monday standup.

  • Marketing
    60 min / week
    Batch thank-you email sends

    The marketing team exports a donation list at end of day, manually segments it by gift level, and uploads it to the email platform for a batch send — donors may wait hours for acknowledgment.

    Marketing Agent
    0 min
    Agent sends personalized thank-yous within about a minute of each gift

    When a donation lands, the agent fires immediately, retrieves the donor's profile, and triggers a personalized acknowledgment in the email platform — no batch runs, no overnight delays.

  • Customer Support
    45 min / week
    Manual event ticket confirmation

    Support staff monitor Donorbox for ticket purchases, manually copy attendee details to the check-in spreadsheet, and send confirmation emails one by one — a process that falls behind during high-volume sales windows.

    Customer Support Agent
    0 min
    Agent confirms event tickets and updates the guest roster automatically

    When a ticket purchase completes, the agent retrieves attendee details and sends a personalized confirmation email within about a minute, while simultaneously adding the attendee to the Google Sheets check-in roster.

  • Human Resources
    30 min / week
    Manual employee giving tracking

    HR manually exports the campaign donor list, cross-references it with the staff directory, calculates participation rates, and builds a recognition post — a task that often gets deprioritized when deadlines are tight.

    Human Resources Agent
    0 min
    Agent tracks employee giving participation and posts weekly recognition

    The HR Agent monitors the employee giving campaign weekly, calculates participation rates, and posts anonymized staff donor recognition — driving peer engagement without HR manually compiling a list.

  • Finance
    75 min / week
    Manual weekly revenue reconciliation

    Finance exports donations from Donorbox, imports to a spreadsheet, sums totals by campaign, looks up plan counts separately, and builds a weekly variance report — a process that takes 60–90 minutes each time.

    Finance Agent
    0 min
    Agent reconciles weekly revenue and MRR without a manual export

    Every Friday the Finance Agent pulls donation totals, sums MRR from active plans, compares to budget targets, and posts a variance report to the team — the close happens while no one is watching.

  • Operations
    45 min / week
    Manual donor record synchronization

    Operations staff run periodic exports from Donorbox, import updates to the CRM and email platform, and manually reconcile mismatches — a process prone to lag and human error that grows harder as the donor file grows.

    Operations Agent
    0 min
    Agent keeps all cross-system donor records current within about a minute

    When a donor record is created or updated in Donorbox, the Operations Agent propagates changes to the CRM, email platform, and intake database within about a minute — data stays consistent across the stack without manual syncs.

  • Legal
    20 min / week
    Manual compliance audits at year end

    Legal reviews donation records at year end to identify acknowledgment gaps and AML exceptions — a time-compressed process that creates significant compliance risk when issues are found too late to remedy.

    Legal Agent
    0 min
    Agent audits tax-receipt compliance and AML thresholds weekly

    The Legal Agent checks every gift above the IRS acknowledgment threshold for receipt dates, and screens international donors against AML documentation requirements — a weekly automated sweep that replaces a manual year-end scramble.

+ 100s of other Donorbox automations
Average time saved
31 hrs / person / month
Calculator

Calculate what your team saves

Team size
5 people
Hourly rate
$75 / hr
Hours saved / week
13
Hours saved / year
625
Annual ROI
$46,875

Based on Donorbox's typical team usage — the visible tasks plus a few other automations the agent runs: ~2.5 hrs / person / week of admin work automated.

Connect

How to plug Donorbox into Actionist

Pick the connection method that suits your environment.

Connect with your Donorbox API key — available from Account Settings → API & Zapier Integration. Required for all read actions and webhook triggers.

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Open API Settings

Log in to your Donorbox account and go to Account Settings. Click the API & Zapier Integration tab.

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Generate your API key

Click Generate API key (or copy an existing one). The key grants read access to your organization's campaigns, donations, donors, and plans.

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Paste into Actionist

Paste the key into Actionist and click Test connection. Actionist runs a read-only call to confirm access before any agent tasks run.

Credentials you'll need
API key*
Donorbox → Account Settings → API & Zapier Integration → Generate API key
Actions

12 actions your agent can call

Read and write operations available to your Actionist agent.

Triggers

6 events your agent can react to

Events your agent watches for, and the actions it kicks off in response.

FAQs

Questions about Donorbox + Actionist

How does Actionist connect to Donorbox?
Go to the Apps tab, find Donorbox, and click Connect. The recommended path uses your Donorbox API key: log in to your Donorbox account, navigate to Account Settings, then API & Zapier Integration, and generate your API key. Paste it into Actionist. The agent runs a read-only test call to confirm the handshake before any actions run. For webhook-based triggers, Actionist registers a secure endpoint in your Donorbox Webhooks settings automatically on first use.
Is it safe to connect Actionist to my Donorbox account?
Yes. The Donorbox API key grants access scoped to your organization's data only. It enables reading campaigns, donations, donors, and plans. Webhook triggers fire when Donorbox sends signed POST requests to your Actionist-registered endpoint — Actionist verifies the signature on every incoming event. No other user's data is accessible and the key can be revoked from your Donorbox dashboard at any time.
What are the most common things agents do with Donorbox?
The most common automation patterns are: (1) donor acknowledgment — when a donation comes in, the agent triggers a thank-you message or CRM update within about a minute; (2) recurring plan monitoring — checking weekly for lapsed or paused plans and flagging them to the fundraising team; (3) campaign reporting — pulling donation totals from the API on a schedule and posting a digest to Slack or Google Sheets; (4) donor enrichment — writing new donors into a CRM, email marketing list, or grant-management tool the moment they give.
How quickly does Actionist react to new Donorbox donations?
Actionist fires Donorbox webhook triggers within about a minute of the event occurring in Donorbox — covering new or updated donations, donors, campaigns, recurring plans, ticket purchases, and individual tickets. For operations that don't have a webhook (like pulling summary reports), use a scheduled agent task that calls the Donorbox API on a cadence you set (daily, weekly, monthly). The combination covers both real-time responses and periodic reporting without any manual intervention.
Can Actionist sync my Donorbox donation data to Google Sheets or a CRM?
Yes. Actionist can read campaigns, donations, donors, and plans from the Donorbox API and write the data to any connected app — Google Sheets, Airtable, Notion, HubSpot, Salesforce, or a custom database endpoint. A common setup is a weekly scheduled agent task that pulls all donations from the past seven days, appends them to a Google Sheet, and posts a summary to Slack — giving the development team a clean running record without manual exports.
Can Actionist alert me when a recurring donor cancels or pauses their plan?
Yes. The New or Updated Plan webhook fires when a recurring giving plan changes status — which covers cancellations, pauses, and failures. You can build an agent that receives this trigger and immediately writes the lapsed donor to a follow-up queue in your CRM or email marketing tool, sends a re-engagement message, or flags the record for a phone outreach task. Catching plan changes within about a minute of them occurring dramatically reduces the window in which a lapsed donor can go uncontacted.
Can Actionist track individual Donorbox campaigns separately?
Donorbox campaigns can be filtered by ID through the API, so your agent can pull donation and donor data for a specific campaign independently of others. This makes it straightforward to build per-campaign dashboards: the agent fetches donations with the campaign_id filter, aggregates the total raised and donor count, and writes the numbers to a campaign tracker. You can run this daily during active campaigns and weekly during quieter periods.
Does Actionist work with Donorbox's event ticketing feature?
Donorbox's event ticketing fires a New or Updated Tickets Purchase Transaction trigger and a New or Updated Ticket trigger when purchases occur. Your agent can react within about a minute — adding the attendee to a registration list in Google Sheets, sending a confirmation message via your email marketing tool, or updating an Airtable event database. After the event, a scheduled task can pull all ticket purchases for the campaign and produce an attendance report.