DONATION
Donation management software for small to midsize churches
4,9 /5 (237 reviews) Write a Review!DONATION Overview
What is DONATION?
DONATION is an easy-to-use, affordable, and powerful solution best suited to small and mid-sized organizations. Intended primarily for record-keeping of donors and donations, issuing receipts, reporting, and mail-merge, DONATION is not a fundraising system. (If that's your requirement you might want a more full-featured and customizable fundraising program - that's also more expensive!) Over 4,000 registered users in churches and charities in the U.S., Canada and around the world make DONATION their program of choice.
DONATION Overview
Pricing
Pricing options
Free for the feature-limited Lite version, $80 for the regular Standalone version, $150 for the multi-user Network version in the first year. Annual Renewal fees (half those amounts) allow you to continue your eligibility for support and upgrades in subsequent years, but are not required.
DONATION Features
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DONATION Reviews
DONATION Reviews
Great program
It gives us a place to combine our info about all of our donations, donor base and allows us to group them as to the type of resource - be it a church, a business, individual, and even lets us categorize the types of payment.
DONATION by Software4NonProfits
We track donations/offerings for our church. While the program does handle pledges, our church does not make pledges. We merely track donations in the form of cash or cheques or e-transfers. For this purpose, I HIGHLY recommend this program!
Great for Small Charities
Easily tracks donations and produces tax receipts
Excellent, easy to use Donation System
The DONATION software is reliable, does the job it was designed for, with ease. Also, the customer service is second-to-none, and any questions are dealt with quickly and efficiently.
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Great program
Pros
The program is easy to use, mostly self-explanatory and logical. If help is needed the help is there in short order. Very comprehensive program.
Cons
I can't complain about anything so I don't have an entry for this section.
DONATION by Software4NonProfits
We track donations/offerings for our church. While the program does handle pledges, our church does not make pledges. We merely track donations in the form of cash or cheques or e-transfers. For this purpose, I HIGHLY recommend this program!
Pros
I tried a few programs early on in my time as treasurer (which is 17 years now), including Quickbooks and Donarius. I found Donation much easier to use than Donarius. Our needs are fairly straightforward and Donation allows for easy multiple donation entries for a given day. Also, the support has been great. Every question I've ever asked was answered usually within 24 hours. They even added features to the program at my request!
Cons
This program is really meant for tracking donations only. It's not meant to be a complete CRM system, so some folks may find it limited in that regard.
Great for Small Charities
Easily tracks donations and produces tax receipts
Pros
Easy to use with some flexibility. CRA compliant. Inexpensive.
Cons
Not cloud based. Better reporting and report options
Response from Software4Nonprofits
We are a bit surprised at how low some of these ratings are and have written to the user for clarification. In particular we have never received any tech support inquiries from them for assistance with reporting, which is really quite comprehensive and flexible according to most of our users. We also have a partly cloud-based version, with the program installed but your data on our server.
Excellent, easy to use Donation System
The DONATION software is reliable, does the job it was designed for, with ease. Also, the customer service is second-to-none, and any questions are dealt with quickly and efficiently.
Pros
This software is reliable and easy to use. The customer service is excellent.
Cons
There is nothing that I think is missing from this software.
You can't go wrong
Pros
Donation is a very simple program to use. It will print out your receipts, thank you letters, and year-end tax statements for your donors. The learning curve is very short in all areas but one. Their tech support is quick. The cost is very reasonable. There are updates throughout the year and as long as you pay the yearly maintenance fee the problem will be always up to date.
Cons
Is can be difficult to set up your thank you letters. There are templates that you can edit, but it does not always follow correctly.
Response from Software4Nonprofits
Thank you for this great review, Sue. In our experience, the only time mail-merge documents get seriously messed up is if you edit them in Microsoft Word, which can somehow make the merge fields not work. Other than that it's pretty much what you see is what you get. If you have further our outstanding problems with mail-merge letters don't hesitate to contact us for support.
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DONATION Pricing
DONATION Pricing
Free for the feature-limited Lite version, $80 for the regular Standalone version, $150 for the multi-user Network version in the first year. Annual Renewal fees (half those amounts) allow you to continue your eligibility for support and upgrades in subsequent years, but are not required.
Free for the feature-limited Lite version, $80 for the regular Standalone version, $150 for the multi-user Network version in the first year. Annual Renewal fees (half those amounts) allow you to continue your eligibility for support and upgrades in subsequent years, but are not required.
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DONATION Features
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Additional information for DONATION
Additional information for DONATION
Key features of DONATION
- Flexible mail-merge letters
- Installed Windows Software
- Mail-merge receipts can be used if you need your own wording
- Over 30 built-in reports, and custom reports
- Over 90% of most users' work will be done on the main window
- Powerful SQL-based database
- Receipts for Canada (including Quebec), USA, and Australia
Benefits
Users of Cooperstock Software's DONATION program love it because of its easy of learning and use.
DONATION for Windows helps you to: Track donations; Manage donors; Issue charitable receipts (including official U.S. and CRA-compatible Canadian charitable donation receipts); Track church contributions, giving, offerings or tithing; and Send mail-merge correspondence.
DONATION is ideal for Treasurers, Bookkeepers, Administrators, Administrative Assistants, Financial Secretaries, Envelope Secretaries, Executives or Directors and Pastors.
DONATION FAQs
DONATION FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for DONATION.
Q. What type of pricing plans does DONATION offer?
DONATION offers the following pricing plans:
Starting from: US$80,00
Free Trial: Available
Free for the feature-limited Lite version, $80 for the regular Standalone version, $150 for the multi-user Network version in the first year. Annual Renewal fees (half those amounts) allow you to continue your eligibility for support and upgrades in subsequent years, but are not required.
Q. What are the main features of DONATION?
DONATION offers the following features:
- Flexible mail-merge letters
- Installed Windows Software
- Mail-merge receipts can be used if you need your own wording
- Over 30 built-in reports, and custom reports
- Over 90% of most users' work will be done on the main window
- Powerful SQL-based database
- Receipts for Canada (including Quebec), USA, and Australia
Q. Who are the typical users of DONATION?
DONATION has the following typical customers:
Non Profit
Q. What languages does DONATION support?
DONATION supports the following languages:
English
Q. What type of pricing plans does DONATION offer?
We do not have any information about what DONATION pricing plans
Q. Does DONATION support mobile devices?
We do not have any information about what devices DONATION supports
Q. What other apps does DONATION integrate with?
We do not have any information about what integrations DONATION has
Q. What level of support does DONATION offer?
We do not have any information about what support options DONATION has
It gives us a place to combine our info about all of our donations, donor base and allows us to group them as to the type of resource - be it a church, a business, individual, and even lets us categorize the types of payment.