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description: Use the Fundraising app to manage all types of gift commitments, both monetary and in kind. You can track gifts for particular opportunities and campaigns, change transaction schedules, and update donation amounts. Automated tasks simplify handling recurring donations. You can also easily monitor upcoming, missed, failed, and recently paid and refunded transactions.
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# Gift Commitments in Education

Use the Fundraising app to manage all types of gift commitments, both monetary and in kind. You can track gifts for particular opportunities and campaigns, change transaction schedules, and update donation amounts. Automated tasks simplify handling recurring donations. You can also easily monitor upcoming, missed, failed, and recently paid and refunded transactions.

### Required Editions

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          <td data-label="REQUIRED EDITIONS" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d127931e36 ">Available in: Lightning Experience</td>

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            <p style="margin-bottom:0;">Available in: <strong>Enterprise</strong>, <strong>Performance</strong>, <strong>Unlimited</strong>,
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- **[Add a Gift Commitment in Education](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sfdo.ec_fundraising_create_gift_commitment.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Create a record for a one-time pledge, a multipayment gift, or an open-ended recurring gift, including the schedule, amount, and gift designations of the donor’s choice. If someone influenced the donor to give, you can log gift soft credits directly on the commitment page. You can connect the gift to a campaign or opportunity and allocate the gift for a particular designation.
- **[Add a Designation to a Gift Commitment in Education](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sfdo.ec_fundraising_manage_gift_default_designations_gift_commitment.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Allocate or reallocate gift amounts associated with a gift commitment to gift designations of the donor's choice.
- **[Capture Giving Influence with Soft Credits in Education](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sfdo.ec_fundraising_capture_giving_influence_with_soft_credits.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Streamline your fundraising efforts by tracking soft credits on Gift Commitments. Gift Entry Officers and Annual Fund Managers can capture and manage the influence of third parties on donations effectively, making sure every contribution is recognized and attributed accurately. This functionality not only simplifies the recording process but also aids in strategic donor engagement and segmentation.
- **[Schedule a Gift Commitment in Education](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sfdo.ec_fundraising_schedule_gift_commitments.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Schedule a recurring or custom payment of a gift commitment from a donor. The scheduling options change based on the schedule type that you select when you create the gift commitment.
- **[Enter In-Kind Gift Commitments in Education](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sfdo.ec_fundraising_enter_in_kind_gift_commitments.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    An in-kind gift is a donation of goods or services, rather than a cash donation, to a nonprofit organization. To enter in-kind gifts into Salesforce, enter them as gift commitments.
- **[Manage Recurring Gift Commitments in Education](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sfdo.ec_fundraising_manage_gift_commitment.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    You can change the gift amount, schedule, and payment instrument details of a gift commitment. When you update the gift commitment record, Fundraising automatically processes the commitment and its associated records, such as the transaction and schedule.
- **[Gift Commitment Processing in Education](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sfdo.ec_fundraising_gift_commitment_processing.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Fundraising offers a structured and automated method to manage and process gift commitments based on the associated gift commitment schedule and gift transactions.
- **[Close a Gift Commitment in Education](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sfdo.ec_fundraising_close_gift_commitment.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Close a gift commitment when you no longer need to track it.