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Archive and Delete Constituents

Archive your constituents if you wish to bring them back in the future or delete them to completely remove.

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Written by Cristina Gruita
Updated yesterday

If you archive a constituent all the information you have about them is retained but they are put into an inactive state - this makes it easy to exclude them from lists and mailings.

πŸ“ŒNote: Payments will not be collected for recurring payment instructions belonging to archived constituents.


Archive a Constituent

  1. Locate the constituent you want to archive.

  2. Click Manage then click Archive Constituent.

  3. Enter the Archive Date and Archive Reason.

  4. Click Archive.

When you retrieve an archived constituent, a banner is displayed at the top of the constituent's record indicating that they are archived.

Search for Archived constituents

Archived constituents are returned in the search results unless you search only for active constituents.

To search specifically for archived constituents:

  1. Type in your search keyword, then click Search.

  2. To refine the search results for only the archived variant, click the Status radio button next to Inactive.


Delete a Constituent

⚠️ Important:

  • The delete function is available to Administrators only.

  • If you delete a Constituent, then all information about that constituent is permanently deleted - there is no way of getting it back.

  1. Locate the constituent you want to delete.

  2. Click on Manage and then Delete Constituent.

  3. Donorfy will ask if you are sure you wish to delete the constituent, click on Yes (or no if you clicked by accident or no longer wish to delete).

The constituent will now be deleted.

Bulk deleting and archiving

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