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title: "Solicitation Controls & Communication Preferences for Advancement"
slug: "solicitation-controls-communication-preferences"
description: "Manage donor solicitation and communication preferences in Slate with custom fields, query filters, and email message groups."
tags: ["Advancement"]
status: "update"
updated: 2026-10-16T20:17:17Z
published: 2026-10-16T20:17:17Z
canonical: "knowledge.technolutions.net/solicitation-controls-communication-preferences"
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# Solicitation Controls & Communication Preferences for Advancement

You can manage donor solicitation controls and communication preferences with **custom fields** or with **message groups**.

## Creating and filtering on custom solicitation fields

You can [create a person-scoped custom field](/v1/docs/fields-that-store-multiple-values-from-a-prompt-list) and an accompanying [prompt list](/v1/docs/prompts) to represent your constituents’ solicitation preferences. You can associate this field value with a record by collecting it on a [form](/v1/docs/forms-overview). Then, when you create a query or recipient list, you can filter for the existence of these solicitation preferences to filter individuals who should not be solicited in a particular method.

## Creating message groups

For emails, you can create [message groups](/v1/docs/opt-out-of-specific-communications-with-message-groups) to let donors unsubscribe from specific communication campaigns. Donors can also unsubscribe from all marketing communications from your institution.

> [!NOTE]
> 💡 Transactional messages, like confirmation emails, are delivered regardless of a constituent’s unsubscribe preferences.