Introduction
This feature automatically directs a constituent with an existing Neon account to the constituent version of your form upon clicking a link you send in a campaign email. This saves them the time of logging in or re-entering personal information on your public forms. It also helps prevent duplicate accounts from occurring in your system.
Features and Limitations
- Constituents do not need to have set up a login name and password for their account in order for this feature to work.
- Link Authentication does NOT give the recipient full access to the Constituent Login Portal; they can only fill out the form to which you have linked in the email campaign. A constituent would still need to log in using their account login name and password in order to view/modify their Neon account information and navigate to other sections of the login portal.
- This feature only works for a specific list of standard Neon CRM forms and for all published custom forms. If a particular standard form you want to link to is not in the list, that means that Link Authentication is not supported for that form.
- This feature is only supported when sending emails directly from Neon.
Enabling Link Authentication
This feature is disabled by default. To enable Link Authentication in emails, navigate to Global Settings cog > Global Settings > Account Duplicate Management > Email Link Authentication (All Other Emails)
Toggle to Blue to enable email link authentication for System Emails and/or All Other Emails.
Sending Emails with Link Authentication Enabled
The following Authenticated links can be added to your emails:
- Any link from the dropdown menu lists in the Add/Edit Link window;
- All published custom forms.
First, add a link to your email.
Clicking the Link icon will open a window that contains two menu options for adding built-in links.
The top menu ("select a web portal") has a list of standard Neon CRM form links, as well as links to any published custom forms you may have created.
The menu below ("select a donation campaign link") contains links to the donation pages of any fundraising campaigns you have created.
When a constituent receives your email, they will click on the link...
...and are automatically taken to the Constituent version of your form.
As a security feature, the constituent does not have access to any other section of the constituent login portal. They can only fill out the form to which you have linked in the email.
If you send the same email to an address that is not associated with an existing Neon account, the recipient will be taken to the Public Access version of your forms.
Forwarding Emails with Link Authentication Enabled (NOT recommended)
Caution: Because authenticated email links are unique to the constituent who originally received the email, anyone who clicks on those links will be recognized as the original recipient. Therefore, emails that contain these links should not be forwarded to anyone.
When this feature is enabled, we highly recommend that you do the following:
- Disable 'Display "Share" Link' from any email theme that you use for emails containing authentication links;
- Add a message to any emails containing these links so that recipients know the risks of forwarding the email.