It's no secret that 2011 was a brilliant year of "firsts"! Artez was first to launch a full fundraising system on the mobile web, and first to build exciting new social fundraising tools into a person to person platform.

We are thrilled to bring you the ultimate online fundraising system; helping charities and nonprofits like yours raise millions of dollars for good causes this year. That's because our mission each day is to build and advance Friendship Powered Fundraising!

We introduced so many useful features in 2011, that we thought it would be a good idea to recap our year. Here's our biggest hits from a busy year of innovation …

Social fundraising tools to reach your widest network of supporters:

We added Facebook Connect to the Artez system as a great way for your organization to leverage the popularity of Facebook in your online fundraising campaigns. Your donors can sign into Facebook when donating, and publish their gift on their personal profiles. Your organization also has the option to use Facebook as a "single sign on" feature, making giving to your cause quick and easy.

Of course, it wouldn't be a Facebook upgrade without the addition of the popular Facebook Like button on our fundraising and donation pages. Visitors to your site can now "Like" your events & campaigns!

Stay tuned for more news in early 2012 about our participation in Facebook's OpenGraph project - there are more Facebook goodies to come!

360 degrees of mobile innovation:

We've added mobile web personal & team fundraising pages to events in our system.  Your users on mobile devices like smartphones and tablets can enjoy a mobile-optimized fundraising experience!

With the addition of PayPal Mobile Express Checkout on iPhone and Android devices, it only takes your mobile donors a few quick steps to donate!

Facebook Connect also appears on mobile donation forms. Of course, a successful fundraising campaign requires great metrics. Our Google Analytics implementation has been upgraded to ensure you can report on visitor traffic to your mobile pages.

New features to make it easier to manage your online campaigns:



We know the ability to style your pages to make your branding is important to you, so we've added enhanced colour & font pickers through out our system, and gave you interactive content areas to add your own custom code.

A new "Find & Replace" feature allows you to search your content and easily find and substitute new text and a double confirmation option for email addresses makes it less likely that your donors will input the wrong email address. Updates to donor management make it quick for your organization to issue a tax receipt directly from the system.

Want to learn more about everything we introduced this year? Be sure to log into the Artez Client Community for enhancements webinars, "how to guides", videos and more!