Fix or override "the starting on date cannot be less than the amendment date" for recurring gift updates

We had a few hundred gifts migrated from Luminate to NXT. At the start of each calendar year, we need to update campaign on recurring gifts. Currently our recurring gifts fall into 3 buckets:

Ones that I can run a regular gift import and it will update the campaign.

Ones that I can run an amendment gift import and it will update the campaign.

Ones that won’t process in either manner (due to an error that indicates “the starting on date cannot be less than the amendment date”) and I therefore have to do a one by one amendment on each gift in webview just to change the campaign. I have to do these manual updates every year on these same recurring gifts.

Blackbaud needs a way in unified view to globally update campaign or appeal on recurring gifts (amended or not). When you do so, please override this error. Obviously the error can be sidestepped by a manual amendment, but that is frustratingly time consuming and we would like the capability to handle them all globally.

  • Jessica Kraybill
  • Jan 8 2026
  • Reviewed: Voting Open
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