Statuses and Lifecycle States

Several resources in Raise carry lifecycle state — flags or status enums that change as the record moves through its life. Partner integrations that read or sync Raise data need to handle these states correctly: a deleted donor under GDPR is different from an archived donor, a failed recurring gift is different from a cancelled one, a test-mode gift shouldn’t appear in production reports. This page is the catalog. Each resource’s lifecycle states are documented with what the state means, where to find it on the record, and how partner integrations should handle it.

Donor lifecycle states

Donors carry three boolean lifecycle flags on the DonorModel:

Field	Type	What it means
`isArchived`	boolean	The donor has been archived — hidden from most views but the record persists with all history intact.
`isGDPRDeleted`	boolean	The donor has been deleted under a GDPR right-to-erasure request. The record is retained as a tombstone (the `id` continues to exist) but personal data has been removed.
`isTestMode`	boolean	The donor was created in test mode.

These three states are independent — a donor can be isTestMode: true and isArchived: true simultaneously, for example.

`isArchived`

Archive is a soft-delete state. The donor’s record continues to exist, all related Gifts continue to reference it, and the data is preserved for historical reporting. Archived donors are typically hidden from active-donor lists, prospecting workflows, and engagement metrics. How to apply archive:

cURL

curl -X POST https://prod-api.raisedonors.com/api/Donor/12345/archive \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN"

Archive is reversible — flip isArchived back to false via a Donor update. How partner integrations should handle:

Sync workflows: exclude archived donors from default sync flows unless the customer explicitly wants archived data included.
Search and lookup: hide archived donors from active-donor type-ahead suggestions.
Reporting: filter to isArchived: false for “active donor” metrics.

`isGDPRDeleted`

GDPR deletion is a hard delete of personal data with a retained tombstone. The donor’s id continues to exist (so historical Gifts can still reference the donor) but the identifying fields (firstName, lastName, email, etc.) are removed or anonymized. Unlike archive, GDPR deletion is not user-driven through the API — it’s typically initiated through the customer’s admin tools as part of a formal GDPR right-to-erasure request from the donor. How partner integrations should handle:

Sync workflows: when an existing local record’s source donor flips to isGDPRDeleted: true, the local record should also be reduced to a tombstone with personal data removed.
New ingestion: a donor that arrives as isGDPRDeleted: true should not be persisted with personal data — store only the id reference for accounting integrity.
Reporting: GDPR-deleted donors typically don’t appear in donor-facing reports but do count in aggregate gift totals.

See Donors: GDPR right-to-erasure for more detail.

`isTestMode`

Test-mode donors are created when running donation flows in test mode — typically during integration development or QA work in a customer’s organization. The records are real, but they’re flagged as non-production data. How partner integrations should handle:

Production reports and metrics: filter to isTestMode: false.
Sync to downstream production systems: skip records where isTestMode: true.
Development and test environments: process test-mode records normally.

A common reporting pattern: every query that builds production-facing dashboards adds a isTestMode: false filter at the query layer.

Gift lifecycle states

Gifts carry a status enum, several boolean flags, and a refund capability indicator.

Gift status

The status field on GiftModel is an integer enum. The spec defines a ChargeStatus enum with 13 possible values (0 through 12) without labels:

0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

The accompanying statusText field provides the human-readable display version. Partner integrations should:

Display: use statusText directly — it’s already in the user’s locale.
Logic: don’t switch on integer values until the platform team publishes the enum-to-label mapping.

⚠️ Spec gap: Gift ChargeStatus enum values (0–12) are not labeled in the OpenAPI spec. The 13 distinct values likely correspond to states like “Pending”, “Approved”, “Settled”, “Declined”, “Refunded”, “Voided”, and similar, but the mapping is not documented.Until the mapping is published, partner integrations relying on status checks should call GET /api/Query/options/{queryType} to discover the available status values for a Gift query — see Pagination and Filtering: Discovering query options. The statusText field is the safe choice for any display surface.

`canRefund`

"canRefund": true | false

Indicates whether the Gift is eligible for refund through POST /api/Gift/{id}/refund. Reasons a Gift might have canRefund: false:

The Gift has already been refunded.
The Gift is too old for the gateway’s refund window.
The Gift’s gateway doesn’t support refunds.
The Gift hasn’t been settled yet (refund-before-settlement may not be supported by some gateways).

Partner integrations exposing a refund UI should check canRefund and hide or disable the refund action when it’s false.

`isAnonymous`

When the donor chose to give anonymously, this flag is true. The donor’s identifying information is still on the Gift record (for accounting and stewardship purposes) but the customer’s public-facing displays should omit identifying information.

`isTestMode`

Same semantics as on Donors — true for test-mode gifts. Filter to false for production reports.

RecurringGift lifecycle states

RecurringGifts have the most complex lifecycle of any Raise resource — they’re long-lived schedules with their own state machine.

RecurringGift status

status on RecurringGiftModel is an integer enum. The spec defines a RecurringGiftStatus enum with 6 possible values (1 through 6) without labels:

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

The statusText field provides the display string.

⚠️ Spec gap: RecurringGift status values (1–6) are not labeled in the OpenAPI spec. The 6 distinct values likely correspond to states like “Active”, “Cancelled”, “Paused”, “Failed”, “Completed”, and similar, but the mapping is not documented.As with Gift status, use statusText for display and GET /api/Query/options/{queryType} for discovering valid filter values until the labels are published.

`hasPaymentFailed`

"hasPaymentFailed": true | false

When true, the most recent payment attempt against the schedule failed — typically because the card expired, the card was declined, or there were insufficient funds. The schedule is still “active” in the sense that it hasn’t been cancelled, but it isn’t successfully charging. This is one of the most actionable signals for partner integrations doing donor stewardship — see Recurring Gifts: Detecting payment failures.

`isLegacy`

"isLegacy": true | false

Marks schedules that were created in an older Raise implementation. Some operations may behave differently for legacy schedules — confirm specific behavior with the platform team when targeting legacy data.

Frequency enum

While not strictly a “status”, the frequency field on a RecurringGift is another integer enum that determines the schedule’s cadence. The spec defines a Frequency enum with these values:

0, 1, 2, 4, 12, 26, 52, 100

The values are not labeled in the spec, but the numbers themselves hint at semantics — 12 likely corresponds to monthly (12 payments per year), 52 to weekly, 26 to biweekly, 4 to quarterly. Confirm the exact mapping against live data or the platform team before relying on specific values.

⚠️ Spec gap: The Frequency enum values are not labeled in the spec. The integer values pattern (0, 1, 2, 4, 12, 26, 52, 100) suggests they map to common cadence semantics — but the exact mapping is not in the spec. Use formattedFrequency (which is human-readable) for display. For programmatic logic, confirm the integer-to-cadence mapping against the live API.

`isTestMode`

Same as on Gifts and Donors — true for test-mode schedules.

Campaign lifecycle states

Campaigns don’t have an explicit lifecycle enum like Gifts and RecurringGifts. Their lifecycle is implied by date fields and a small number of flags.

Implicit states from `startDate` / `endDate`

State	How to determine
Active	Current date is between `startDate` and `endDate`.
Upcoming	Current date is before `startDate`.
Closed	Current date is after `endDate`.

These states are not stored as fields — they’re derived from comparing the campaign’s date range to the current date. Partner integrations that need an “active campaigns” filter compute this client-side rather than relying on a field.

`canSync`

"canSync": true | false

Controls whether the campaign’s data syncs to CRM+. Not a lifecycle state in the traditional sense, but a state that meaningfully affects how the campaign behaves. See How Raise Data Flows to CRM+.

No `isArchived` field on Campaigns

Unlike Donors, the Raise spec doesn’t expose an isArchived flag on Campaigns. Customers typically either:

Delete past campaigns they no longer want surfaced (using DELETE /api/Campaign/{id}), or
Leave them in place with the past endDate indicating the campaign is closed.

Partner integrations that need to distinguish “active” from “historical” campaigns rely on date comparisons rather than a flag.

DonationForm states

Donation Forms have lifecycle states (drafted, published, archived) in the Raise product, but none of these states are exposed through the current API. The GiftFormModel embedded in Gifts has only:

Field	Type	Lifecycle meaning
`isLegacy`	boolean	Distinguishes forms built on the legacy form engine from modern forms. Useful when partner integrations need to handle the two differently.

There’s no API-exposed indicator of whether a form is currently published, accepting submissions, or in a particular configuration state. Coordinate with the customer’s admin team for form-state visibility. See Donation Forms for the full picture of what the API does and doesn’t expose about forms.

Webhook subscription status

Webhook subscriptions have a status enum that determines whether they receive event deliveries. The spec defines a Status enum with 2 values (1 and 2) without labels:

1, 2

The two values likely correspond to “Active” and “Inactive” / “Disabled”, but the mapping isn’t in the spec.

⚠️ Spec gap: The Webhook Status enum values (1, 2) are not labeled in the spec. Confirm the active/inactive mapping against live data before designing webhook management workflows that rely on specific status integer values.

See Webhooks Overview for the broader webhook surface.

How test mode propagates across resources

The isTestMode flag is set at the resource level but follows a natural propagation pattern: A donation submitted with isTestMode: true produces a test-mode Donor (if a new one is created), a test-mode Gift, and a test-mode RecurringGift (if the donation is recurring). Once a donor exists as test-mode, subsequent gifts to that donor continue to be test-mode unless the donor is explicitly converted. Partner integrations doing production reporting should filter to isTestMode: false on every resource that supports the flag. A common implementation: apply the filter at the API client layer so every query automatically excludes test-mode data unless explicitly opted in.

JavaScript

async function listProductionDonors() {
  return queryRaise('POST /api/Donor/query', {
    skip: 0,
    take: 1000,
    groups: [
      {
        conditions: [
          { parameter: 'isTestMode', operator: 0 /* equals */, value: 'false' },
        ],
      },
    ],
  });
}

Summary table

Resource	Field	Type	Purpose
Donor	`isArchived`	boolean	Soft-deleted, hidden from active views
Donor	`isGDPRDeleted`	boolean	GDPR-erased, tombstone retained
Donor	`isTestMode`	boolean	Test-mode data
Gift	`status`	integer enum (0–12)	Charge status — use `statusText` for display
Gift	`statusText`	string	Display string for status
Gift	`canRefund`	boolean	Refund eligibility
Gift	`isAnonymous`	boolean	Donor opted to be anonymous
Gift	`isTestMode`	boolean	Test-mode data
RecurringGift	`status`	integer enum (1–6)	Schedule status — use `statusText` for display
RecurringGift	`statusText`	string	Display string for status
RecurringGift	`hasPaymentFailed`	boolean	Most recent charge failed
RecurringGift	`isLegacy`	boolean	Legacy schedule
RecurringGift	`frequency`	integer enum (0, 1, 2, 4, 12, 26, 52, 100)	Schedule cadence — use `formattedFrequency` for display
RecurringGift	`isTestMode`	boolean	Test-mode data
Campaign	`canSync`	boolean	CRM sync enabled
Campaign	(no `isArchived`)	—	Campaigns use date ranges, not archive flags
DonationForm	`isLegacy`	boolean	Built on legacy form engine
Webhook	`status`	integer enum (1, 2)	Subscription active/inactive

Where to go next

Donors

Donor archive, merge, and GDPR-erasure operations in detail.

Recurring Gifts

The full RecurringGift lifecycle including failure detection and recovery.

How Raise Data Flows to CRM+

How lifecycle states like isGDPRDeleted and isArchived should propagate to downstream systems.

Pagination and Filtering

Using Filter and groups[]/conditions[] to query by lifecycle state.

Getting Started

Core Concepts

Workflows

Webhooks

Recipes

Best Practices

Donor lifecycle states

`isArchived`

`isGDPRDeleted`

`isTestMode`

Gift lifecycle states

Gift status

`canRefund`

`isAnonymous`

`isTestMode`

RecurringGift lifecycle states

RecurringGift status

`hasPaymentFailed`

`isLegacy`

Frequency enum

`isTestMode`

Campaign lifecycle states

Implicit states from `startDate` / `endDate`

`canSync`

No `isArchived` field on Campaigns

DonationForm states

Webhook subscription status

How test mode propagates across resources

Summary table

Where to go next

Donors

Recurring Gifts

How Raise Data Flows to CRM+

Pagination and Filtering

​Donor lifecycle states

​isArchived

​isGDPRDeleted

​isTestMode

​Gift lifecycle states

​Gift status

​canRefund

​isAnonymous

​isTestMode

​RecurringGift lifecycle states

​RecurringGift status

​hasPaymentFailed

​isLegacy

​Frequency enum

​isTestMode

​Campaign lifecycle states

​Implicit states from startDate / endDate

​canSync

​No isArchived field on Campaigns

​DonationForm states

​Webhook subscription status

​How test mode propagates across resources

​Summary table

​Where to go next

Donors

Recurring Gifts

How Raise Data Flows to CRM+

Pagination and Filtering

Donor lifecycle states

`isArchived`

`isGDPRDeleted`

`isTestMode`

Gift lifecycle states

Gift status

`canRefund`

`isAnonymous`

`isTestMode`

RecurringGift lifecycle states

RecurringGift status

`hasPaymentFailed`

`isLegacy`

Frequency enum

`isTestMode`

Campaign lifecycle states

Implicit states from `startDate` / `endDate`

`canSync`

No `isArchived` field on Campaigns

DonationForm states

Webhook subscription status

How test mode propagates across resources

Summary table

Where to go next