A Donor is any business or individual that donates Items to your fundraiser. (Cash donations involve payments and are thus recorded as purchase transactions from Buyers.)
There are two ways to manually add Donors to your site:
1. Go to Donors > Add a Donor and complete the form.
2. Go to Catalog > Add an Item > Add New Donor (to be taken to the Donor entry form)
Tips:
Past and/or potential Donors can be uploaded from a spreadsheet (all users) or migrated from previous event sites (returning customers).
Each item must have a donor, so a donor record must be created before or during item entry.
Create a faux Donor called "Friends of (your organization)" to use for items which don't have actual donors (such as paddle raises etc.)
A Tracking ID field is provided to maintain data integrity if you are importing and exporting a data set to/from another database.
Flagging the donor as anonymous to the public hides their name on the web catalog and all printed materials.
Include a complete mailing address if you intend to use the built-in mail merge feature to mail thank you letters (or receipts).
Providing a website URL creates a hyperlink on a business donor's name within the catalog (unless donor is flagged as anonymous).
You can merge duplicate Donors if both records are worth keeping.
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