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November 7, 2025
Question

Bulk upload for one contribution with many attributions? Sample spreadsheet or recs?

  • November 7, 2025
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The basic need is to use bulk upload to add dozens of attributions for one contribution. It seems like it’s probably possible but the article I found on attributions leaves quite a bit to speculation and I’m hoping to avoid a lengthy trial and error process and having someone manually enter 80+ attributions. If you’ve done this and have a sample spreadsheet or some guidance, I’d love to hear from you!

Background: We’re a small organization in Alaska, with one really new development person and maximum of one year of experience in EA for the most senior of us. Alaska is notorious for its Permanent Fund Dividend — Alaska residents receive dividend checks every October from a fund seeded by oil money — and several years ago the Pick.Click.Give. program was created, allowing folks to pledge and donate money from their dividend to Alaska nonprofits. Organizations receive the donations as one single check, along with a spreadsheet of the individual donors. 

Thanks for sharing your wisdom!

16 replies

Liz Ragland
First Timer
November 17, 2025

@melissa Sorry this is not working out for you as expected. Our support team let me know they would recommend a back end edit to fix this for you. I will get this ticket started for you. Stay tuned. 

Liz at Bonterra
melissaAuthor
Rising Star
November 18, 2025

Thanks, Liz!

melissaAuthor
Rising Star
November 18, 2025

Sally, thanks for all your insights!

Megan Dunn-Paul
Rising Star
September 29, 2026

This doesn’t work. The bulk upload wizard to edit contributions does not allow you to select a column for attribution name, it only allows the selection of one entry for all records. That isn’t helpful when there are 300 attributions for a corporate matching donation.

Megan Dunn-Paul
Rising Star
September 30, 2026

I rescind the above statement. My whole database crashed shortly after this, and, after a reboot, the option to select a column instead of apply one value to all records was available.