Purpose
1.2. Gather, unify, and analyze historical and real-time ticket sales or donation data to spotlight peaks, dips, seasonal patterns, and emerging market interests.
1.3. Provide automated alerts, visualizations, and reports on trend shifts, supporting strategic outreach, programming, grant reporting, and financial forecasting.
Trigger Conditions
2.2. Manual trigger by a staff member for on-demand trend analysis.
2.3. Automatically triggered upon a new event completion or fundraising campaign close.
2.4. Automated detection of anomalous spikes or drops in ticket sales or donations exceeding a set threshold.
Platform Variants
• Feature/Setting: Scheduled Reports; configure a custom report with the "Salesforce Analytics API" for exporting opportunities (tickets/donations) data.
3.2. Google Sheets
• Feature/Setting: Google Sheets API for automated extraction and update of sales/donation spreadsheets.
3.3. Mailchimp
• Feature/Setting: Automated campaign analytics reporting via "Reports Endpoint" for donation/event campaigns.
3.4. HubSpot
• Feature/Setting: HubSpot Tickets API with workflow automations for tracking ticket trends and creating trend alerts.
3.5. Eventbrite
• Feature/Setting: Eventbrite REST API "Orders" and "Events" endpoints for automated ticket sales data pull.
3.6. Shopify
• Feature/Setting: Shopify Admin API “Orders” API to automate retrieval of arts event ticket purchases.
3.7. Donorbox
• Feature/Setting: Donorbox API to extract automatic donation trend datasets for campaigns.
3.8. Blackbaud
• Feature/Setting: Blackbaud SKY API for automating fundraising transaction analytics.
3.9. Stripe
• Feature/Setting: Stripe “Balance Transactions” API for automating donation or ticket payment tracking.
3.10. QuickBooks Online
• Feature/Setting: Use the QuickBooks API "Reports" endpoint to automate pulling sales or donations by category.
3.11. Airtable
• Feature/Setting: Airtable Automations and "List Records" API for dynamic sales/donation trend tables.
3.12. Zoho Analytics
• Feature/Setting: Automated Data Connectors and workflows for building real-time ticket/donation trend dashboards.
3.13. Tableau
• Feature/Setting: Tableau REST API to automate scheduled refresh and reporting of trend analytics.
3.14. Power BI
• Feature/Setting: Power BI REST API with scheduled refreshes and automated alerts for unusual trends.
3.15. Xero
• Feature/Setting: Xero API "Reports" resource; schedule automated data pulls for event income and donations.
3.16. Monday.com
• Feature/Setting: Board Automations integrating ticket/donation intake and trend tracking.
3.17. Trello
• Feature/Setting: Trello Power-Up automation for updating lists/cards with sales or donation analytics.
3.18. Asana
• Feature/Setting: Asana Rules & API to auto-populate project milestones when trends cross thresholds.
3.19. Slack
• Feature/Setting: Slack “Incoming Webhooks” for automated trend update notifications.
3.20. Microsoft Teams
• Feature/Setting: Automated message posting to Teams channels when ticket/donation trends change via Teams Webhooks.
3.21. Google Data Studio
• Feature/Setting: Automated connections to Google Sheets, BigQuery for reporting ticket/donation trends.
3.22. Constant Contact
• Feature/Setting: Automated campaign reporting API for donation/ticket engagement analytics.
3.23. PayPal
• Feature/Setting: PayPal “Transaction Search” API to automate charitable donation volume trends.
Benefits
4.2. Increases speed and accuracy of identifying donation/ticket sales trends via automated, real-time analytics.
4.3. Supports proactive decision-making by automatedly surfacing actionable insights.
4.4. Enables automators to spot patterns and optimize campaigns based on trending data.
4.5. Enhances grant and stakeholder reporting through automated dashboards and alerts.
4.6. Frees administrative resources for mission-focused work by automating repeatable data workflows.
4.7. Facilitates automatable scalability for growing event and fundraising portfolios.