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What custom fields are for

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October 27, 2026
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Learn what custom fields are for: asking for details in your forms, seeing them in the profile and using them in your emails.
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  • Knowing your donors better. You keep the information that matters to your organization.
  • Asking for them in your forms. You can add the field to your donation or registration forms.
  • Filling them in by hand. You can also fill them in when you create or edit a person.
  • Using them in your emails. In autoresponders you can insert a field's value with a merge tag.
  • Analyzing them outside AFRUS. Each field comes out as a column when you download your list of people.
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