I see that this issue was marked for review over a year ago, hopefully it gets addressed soon. I think that a solution would be the creation of a new object in Salesforce called "Event Ticket" so that we can track who has purchased tickets to attend events separately from donations because as the OP mentioned, they are not legally considered donations and can cause issues especially if a large number of people purchase tickets. This information is still really important to track the relationship with the donor, so having a way to capture it in Salesforce is crucial.

Eventually, having a GiveLively Event Management app on the App Exchange would be useful, similar to the Volunteer or Program Management ones.

Agreed - this is a major problem. The button shouldn't say "Donate" for events when it's possible that none of the cost of the ticket is tax deductible.

This thread has been going on for some time (apparently back to 2020). Payments for ticketed events may or may not be fully tax deductible, but the current default language says the full payment is deductible. Users either need to be able to chose from several receipt language options, or to be able to edit the receipt language itself. As Dan Hotchkiss noted back in April, the current language is seriously misleading to donors.

I'll also note that I object to being forced to sign up for yet another online service in order to provide feedback to Give Lively. Why can't you make that process more transparent/automatic for Give Lively account holders?

This is a serious matter and has been raised on this platform since 2020. GiveLively is serious about gift campaigns and treats events as an afterthought. The option to designate a portion of an event ticket price as a deductible gift is buried deep and defaults to designating the whole price as deductible. In many cases, probably most, this amounts to tax fraud. It should be fixed before it gets someone into trouble.

Part of a ticket to an event or service can be tax-deductable. The portion over the event net cost is tax-decutable. There should be an option to put in the tax-deductable portion of the ticket purchase.

I've had this issue for a few years now and brought it up before but it's not been changed or made changeable. I agree it should be changed or at least editable by the organization. If it can't be made editable, change it to something more generic like "...partnered with Give Lively to securely process your payment...."

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Agree - should default to some sort of ticketing language for events.

Totally agree