Cash and check donations are considered as Offline Donations in Luminate Online. To enter these funds into the system, you will need to use an offline only or an online/offline configured donation form. If you have not already implemented this please use this guide.

Once your form is configured for offline use, you will need to configure the donation form to accept cash and checks.
  1. Navigate to Fundraising > Donation Management
  2. Select the All Donation Forms tab
  3. Enter the name of the donation form in the search field
  4. Click Search
  5. Under the Actions column, click Edit
  6. On the left hand navigation pane, select Design Donor Screens
  7. Next to the Donation Form, click Edit under the Actions column
  8. Find and click the data element called Payment Type under the "Arrange the order of the selected data elements:" section
  9. Click the Save Order and Edit Selected button
  10. Find the Cash Payment option and mark the checkbox to "Yes, allow administrators to record cash donations."
  11. Find the Check Payment option and mark the checkbox to "Yes, allow administrators to record donations received via check."
  12. Click the Save button