Generic donation platforms run on one calendar: Gregorian. Alora Giving ships eight calendar-system plugins, driving 226 seeded observances across 10 traditions. Each calendar powers its own observance dates, seasonal campaign drafts, and dual-date display — so the right moment reaches the right community.
Pick a calendar and the platform configures the observance list, the seasonal campaign cadence, and the date display. Mix calendars per affiliated organisation. Beyond the eight plugins, the observance library spans 10 traditions — 226 seeded observances, including Bahá'í, Jain, and Zoroastrian dates.
Key windows: Q4 year-end giving (Nov–Dec), Giving Tuesday, tax-season receipts (Jan–Apr), civic anniversaries.
Why it matters: roughly 30% of giving arrives at year-end. The platform tracks the window and surfaces the year-end push as a draft campaign for your team to approve.
Key windows: fiscal-year-end appeals (configurable), quarter-end reporting, annual statement cycles.
Why it matters: boards and auditors live on the fiscal year. Statements and campaign windows line up with your year-end — not just December's.
Key seasons: Stewardship season (Oct–Nov), Christmas Eve, Easter Sunday, Pentecost, All Saints, Reformation Sunday.
Why it matters: Easter attendance is 2–4× a normal Sunday in most churches. The platform tracks the moveable feasts and surfaces each season as a draft campaign for staff approval — the year's highest-attention moments are never missed.
Key festivals: Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot, Simchat Torah, Hanukkah, Purim, Pesach, Shavuot, Tisha B'Av.
Why it matters: the High Holy Days (Rosh Hashanah + Yom Kippur + Kol Nidre) drive the majority of annual synagogue giving. The platform keys the appeal window to the Hebrew dates and surfaces it as a draft campaign ahead of the Days of Awe.
Key months: Ramadan (fasting + the last ten nights), Dhū al-Ḥijjah (Hajj + Eid al-Adha + first ten days), Muharram (new year + Ashura), Rabi al-Awwal (Mawlid).
Why it matters: Ramadan moves ~11 days earlier every Gregorian year — a March campaign this year needs to be a February campaign next. The platform recalculates automatically; your team never has to rebuild the calendar from scratch.
Key festivals: Diwali, Holi, Navaratri, Akshaya Tritiya, Janmashtami, Ganesh Chaturthi.
Why it matters: Akshaya Tritiya is traditionally the auspicious giving day in Hindu tradition, and like Diwali and Navaratri it moves with the lunisolar year. The platform computes the date and surfaces it as a seasonal campaign draft.
Key festivals: Vesak / Buddha Purnima (full moon, May), Asalha Puja (Dharma Day), Vassa (three-month rain retreat), Kathina (robe-offering at retreat end).
Why it matters: Vesak (Buddha Purnima) is the highest dana occasion in Theravada tradition. The platform resolves the lunar full-moon date — which shifts each year — and drafts the appeal around it.
Key dates: Vaisakhi, Guru Nanak Gurpurab, Bandi Chhor Divas, Hola Mohalla.
Why it matters: Vaisakhi is the giving high point of the Sikh year. Vaisakhi-annual recurring gifts and the seasonal campaign draft key to it automatically — and monthly langar support runs on its own devotional schedule.
The calendar isn't a display option. It's wired into seasonal campaign drafting, page copy, date display, and devotional recurring schedules.
Upcoming observances — Pentecost, the High Holy Days, Dhū al-Ḥijjah, Akshaya Tritiya, Vesak, Vaisakhi — surface as draft campaigns in your dashboard. Vocabulary-correct, audience-segmented, ready for staff approval. Nothing auto-sends.
Donate-page banners and dashboard greetings reflect the active season for your organisation's configured tradition. Interfaith organisations run each program on its own calendar, with its own seasonal copy.
Dates render in Gregorian and your tradition's calendar side by side — dual display, not a swap. Your accountant keeps civil dates; your community sees its own calendar on the giving surfaces.
Recurring gifts can follow the tradition's clock — Jumu'ah weekly after Maghrib, Ramadan daily at iftar, Shabbat weekly at candle-lighting −18 minutes, Diwali and Vesak annually. Each charge is computed against the right calendar, every cycle.
Giving windows that straddle Gregorian months — Ramadan, the High Holy Days, stewardship season — are tracked as windows, so campaign goals and seasonal comparisons line up with the observance, not an arbitrary month boundary.
Festival lists, season descriptions, and appeal vocabulary go through the platform's SME review system — credentialed experts attest content, and anything still pending review is visibly labeled "cultural guidance under review."
Pick your organisation type. The platform configures the right calendar default, the right vocabulary, the right payment methods. Switch or extend at any time — your data follows.