Unique Identifier for Donors
keithdhodo opened this issue · 4 comments
We have found that it is very hard to distinguish a unique donor. Would it be possible to add a field onto the Dontation API that would be a uniquely identifying field so I could tell that a donation came from a unique donor?
Our group runs a 24-hour raffle with limits on how many prizes a donor can win by tier. This is the impetus for asking for a unique donor id. Currently using DonorName isn't unique enough for our purposes.
Definitely something we'll consider for our next round of improvements!
Email address is often used for this purpose.
I would recommend not using email address as it could be considered personally identifiable information. Additionally, it could open up groups to potentially having to be GDPR compliant.
the donorID value furnished by the API will be distinct for each donor that selected public name/message visibility at the time of the donation. individual donations are now identified with the donationID
https://github.com/DonorDrive/PublicAPI/blob/master/docs/1.0/resources/donations.md