Settings

Global management of your nations is handled in the Settings section. Connect payment processors, configure a custom domain, create memberships, and customize user permission sets.

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Your account

Log in to your control panel

The first skill necessary to become a NationBuilder superstar is to log in to your control panel.

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Understanding goals

An organization's mission should be broken down into measurable goals. These goals can be tracked within a nation.

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Manage control panel users

A control panel user is a person with permission to access the people database, create webpages, send mass communication, etc.

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Create, edit or delete a permission set

Permission sets are used to grant customized access to the information your control panel users can access.

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Notification emails

Notification emails are sent automatically when someone takes action.

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Information about your account

Your billing info, where your invoice receipts are sent and more!

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Pause or shut down your nation

There are two methods for canceling your account from your control panel. You can either pause or shut down your nation.

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Request tax exemption

NationBuilder collects sales tax for customers in certain states. If you are an exempt entity, you can file an exemption certificate.

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Set up your nation

The control panel

Your NationBuilder control panel is where you manage your nation.

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How to use the unsubscribe page

Every time you send an email blast from your nation, it includes a link that allows the recipient to unsubscribe from email communication.

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Using browser shortcuts

We use a lot of cool browser shortcuts to save us time and keystrokes. Below are a few of our favorites.

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Set up your election

Robust campaign tools are built into your nation. To take full advantage of these features, you'll want to first set up your election.

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Change the name of your nation

Learn how to change the name of your nation and understand the limitations associated with changing your slug.

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Set up memberships

Membership is a way to organize supporters and provide additional benefits based on actions they’ve taken or money donated.

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Glossary

Familiarize yourself with a variety of NationBuilder terms.

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Customize your nation

How activity streams work

You'll find activity streams throughout NationBuilder. These are real-time logs of all activities happening in your nation.

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Understanding virtual currency

Virtual currency (aka social capital) can be used to measure the effort a supporter devotes to achieving your goals.

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Currency in profiles and filters

Social capital allows you to create a gamified economy around the activities required to accomplish your goals.

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How to backup your nation

You can backup your nation by taking a snapshot of your entire database.

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How to open your NationBuilder snapshot on a Mac

This HOWTO will teach you how to open a NationBuilder snapshot on your Mac, so that you can work with your data outside of NationBuilder.

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Model privacy policy

You can use this text on your own website.

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Create custom people fields

Custom fields support the collection of key data points not available in standard NationBuilder fields.

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Create custom donation fields

Custom donation fields support the collection of key data points not available in standard NationBuilder fields.

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Integrate single sign-on (SSO)

Integrating Single sign-on (SSO) in NB allows you to give team members one account to sign into all of the systems your organization uses.

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Configure your SAML Identity Provider to integrate with NationBuilder

To use SAML-based SSO with a nation, the connection needs to be set up. This HOWTO provides step-by-step instructions on the integration.

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Creating and viewing political precincts

A precinct is a geographical unit of a city or town. You must enable voter features in order to view precincts.

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How to run a re-permissioning campaign

Using advanced privacy tools, you have the ability to apply consents and manage how you build relationships with your supporters.

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Advanced privacy tools

NationBuilder has advanced privacy tools so you can ensure you've gained the consent you need to build relationships with your supporters.

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Set up consent subjects

Consents are what specific kinds of data processing and communication you'd like your supporters to opt into.

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Create a consent form

Once you've decided what information you want to collect from people, you need to create a form to collect that information.

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Change consent answers to a different language

You have the ability to bypass English defaults to allow users to click yes/no answer options in your language.

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Set up an analytics consent banner for your website

This will guide you through the process of setting up an analytics/cookie consent banner if you're using analytics tools on your site.

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Use advanced privacy to effectively target supporters

This provides a comprehensive workflow on how to use advanced privacy to better target your supporters.

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