Donation is a program used to track donors and donations, and issue receipts for charitable organizations. Donation is an excellent solution for small to mid-sized charities, churches and other faith groups. It also has customized features for country-specific receipts, for example U.S., Canadian (including Quebec), Australian.
v3.4 [Apr 17, 2008]
Prevent a techie (but harmless) error message after doing Backup/Restore à Backup Database in the Standalone version, if you have never visited the Backup Frequency and Options window and clicked OK in it.
Changed the Bank Deposit reports to add in a summary by Paid By (Cash / Cheque etc.). This includes both the report printed by the Print button on the Maintenance à Create Bank Deposit window, and Reports a Bank Deposit a One Deposit Details.
Added a new menu option Help à Training Videos on the Web, which goes to the Demos and Samples page on the program's web site. That page has both introductory and in-depth training videos on it that you can watch.
· Three reports under Reports à Donor à Donation Info - the Sort by Name, Sort by Amount, and Sort by Member/Envelope # ones, gave as their headings "This Year" and "Last Year", without saying which years those were. That could be confusing if you were working on different years of data, or going back to previous years to run earlier reports etc. The headings have been changed to things like "2012 Total" and "2011 Total" etc.
· Changed the Database à Delete Old Data menu option to only allow deletion up to the 3rd year prior to the current calendar year (e.g. up to 2009 if it is currently 2012).
· Fixed a bug in the Network versions, where you could get a techie error message about "Row Changed between Retrieve and Update" on the SETTINGS table in the database, if two users were using a similar function at the same time.
· Fixed two problems with entering only the month and date for a donation date on the main window, then tabbing out of the field to have it fill in the year. First, the date didn't get saved as the new default date, for the next donation to be entered. Second, if you were working in a previous year's data, the year that got added was the current calendar year, and you could actually save a transaction with that date, even though it was in the wrong year! (Now, whichever year you were working on is the year that gets added to the month and day you entered.)
· If you click on the text "Find Name / #" below the Donor List, or the field to its right, you used to immediately be taken to the Help topic "Finding a Donor" to learn how to do that. Now, clicking on either of them instead displays a message briefly explaining how to find donors, and offering you an option to view that help topic.
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