Nonprofit Donor Management Software, Basic Subscription Service - Patron Software

 

Donor Management & Fundraising

 PRIVATE DONORS (Individuals)

  • Add unlimited names, addresses and other demographic information
  • Indicate who referred donor to your organization
  • Modify and delete donor records
  • Add information about each family member (mobile phone #’s, email addresses, birth dates, employer or school, special interests, etc)
  • Indicate if family member is a child
  • Include a photo of the donor
  • Indicate contact preferences and special requests (e.g.,, do not call)
  • Enter salutation for letters
  • Track subscribers or members of your organization by start date and/or expiration date
  • Indicate subscription or membership level
  • Generate about-to-expire membership reports
  • Write unlimited notes about each interaction with a donor
  • Apply cash, in-kind and pledge transactions
  • Merge donations made by spouses
  • Assign representatives of your organization to a donor
  • Create and manage mail and email lists
  • Send email to one donor or to a group of donors
  • Indicate current status of each donor and donor family member
  • Assign up to 3 keywords (user-defined data fields) to each donor
  • Maintain year-to-year historical records for each donor
  • Generate dozens of reports
  • Query donor records
  • Export donor records to MS Word (mail merge), MS Excel or to an ASCII tab-delimited text file
  • Track the date donor record was added and by whom
  • Track the date donor record was last updated and by whom
  • Import names and addresses from a MS Excel spreadsheet

PUBLIC DONORS (Companies, Foundations, Nonprofit and For Profit Organizations, Institutions, Government Agencies)

  • Add unlimited business names, addresses and other demographic information
  • Indicate who referred the company or contact to your organization
  • Indicate business type
  • Indicate if business is part of a group (e.g.,, General Electric or a supermarket chain)
  • Modify and delete company records
  • Add unlimited contact names, phone numbers and email addresses
  • Indicate area of responsibility for each contact
  • Find contacts for specific companies by area of responsibility, position or status
  • Indicate contact preferences and special requests (e.g., do not send mail)
  • Track subscribers or members of your organization by start date and/or expiration date
  • Indicate subscription or membership level
  • Generate about-to-expire membership reports
  • Write unlimited notes about each interaction with company employees
  • Apply cash, in-kind and pledge transactions
  • Assign representatives of your organization to the company
  • Create and manage mail and email lists
  • Send email to one contact within a company or to a group of contacts
  • Indicate current status
  • Assign up to 3 keywords (user-defined data fields) to each company
  • Maintain year-to-year historical records for each company
  • Generate dozens of reports
  • Query company records
  • Export company and company contact records to MS Word (mail merge), MS Excel or to an ASCII tab-delimited text file
  • Track the date company record was added and by whom
  • Track the date company record was last updated and by whom
  • Import names and addresses from a MS Excel spreadsheet

TRANSACTIONS (Cash Donations, Gifts and Services, Endowments, Pledges, etc.)

  • Apply transactions to private and public donors
  • Allocate gifts to separate campaigns or events
  • Modify and delete transactions
  • Enter split, or segmented, transactions
  • Link split, or segmented, transactions with a reference number
  • Designate gifts as matching, memorials, or anonymous
  • Print thank you letter and/or receipt when the transaction is entered
  • Customize salutation for thank you letter
  • Link pledges and pledge payments with a reference number
  • Indicate tax-deductible portion of a donation
  • Indicate fair-market value of in-kind gifts
  • Track transactions by type and payment method
  • Enter notes regarding the transaction
  • Produce reports for one or more donors
  • Select a report format
  • Sort report by name, date, amount, pledge amount, or fair-market value
  • Produce reports for specific events and activities or programs and classes
  • Produce goal comparison reports
  • Produce pledge reports - pledges due, pledges paid
  • Forecast income
  • Query transactions by any field in the transaction data entry form
  • Export transaction records to MS Word (mail merge), MS Excel or to an ASCII tab-delimited text file
  • Track the date transaction record was added and by whom
  • Track the date transaction record was last updated and by whom

REPORTS

  • Generate LYBUNT and SYBUNT reports
  • Find out who bought tickets to last year’s event, but not this year’s
  • View reports in preview mode
  • Publish any report in MS Word
  • Email any report as an attachment
  • Change margins or page format to fit your printer
  • Select formatting options for reports that are as complete or as streamlined as needed
  • Set the parameters of reports by selecting from a number of options
  • Produce reports for one record, all records, or selected records

EVENTS (Income-producing activities) 

  • Define each event or income-producing activity
  • Assign a financial goal
  • Generate goal comparison reports (how much the organization has earned and how much needs to be earned to attain its financial goal)
  • Enter contact information for event coordinator(s)
  • Enter ticket or item price and the tax-deductible amount of each ticket or item purchased
  • Create a task or to-do list for each event
  • Query the event task list by date, event or item
  • Identify all donors – private and public – who participated in the event
  • Track the number of hours each volunteer worked on the event (requires the Volunteer Module add-on)
  • Export event transaction records or task records to MS Word (mail merge), MS Excel or to an ASCII tab-delimited text file

 LISTS (Mail, Email, Phone, Distribution) 

  • Create unlimited lists
  • Indicate list type (mail, email or phone)
  • Modify and delete list records
  • Combine donors (private and public), volunteers and program participants into a single list
  • View recipients of each list
  • Add and remove recipients from a list
  • Send group email to everyone on the list
  • Generate dozens of reports
  • Export list records to MS Word (mail merge), to MS Excel, or to an ASCII tab-delimited text file
  • Track the date list was created and by whom
  • Track the date list was last updated and by whom

 SEND EMAIL 

  • Send email to individuals or groups
  • Send email to everyone on an email list
  • Maintain address books for separate categories of recipients
  • Select names from multiple address books for email messages
  • Automatically remove duplicate email addresses
  • Honor donor requests to not receive email from your organization by automatically excluding their email address

 MAILING LABELS

  • Print mailing labels for anyone with a complete address
  • Print mailing labels 2-across or 3-across
  • Sort mailing labels alphabetically or in zip code order
  • Automatically remove duplicate mail labels
  • Honor donor requests to not receive mail from your organization by automatically excluding their name and address

 CALENDAR 

  • Add entries (meetings, phone calls, to-do items, pledge due dates) to the calendar as a single or recurring item
  • Assign tasks to one or more representatives of your organization
  • Indicate which tasks to note when completed
  • Link calendar entries to a private donor or a company
  • Indicate if calendar entry is associated with an event or a program
  • Modify or delete calendar entries
  • Identify past due tasks
  • Identify completed tasks
  • Create pledge reminder and due date entries
  • Generate dozens of reports
  • Assign up to 3 keywords (user-defined data fields) to each calendar entry
  • Query calendar entry records
  • Export participant records to MS Word (mail merge), to MS Excel, or to an ASCII tab-delimited text file
  • Track the date calendar entry was created and by whom
  • Track the date calendar entry was last updated and by whom

SECURITY (Users)

  • Assign a unique user ID and password to each user
  • Set permissions by functionality (e.g., user can add and modify a donor record, but cannot delete it)
  • Indicate user category (e.g., staff or volunteer)
  • Indicate user’s status – active or inactive
  • Modify and delete users
  • Track the date user record was added and by whom
  • Track the date user record was last updated and by whom
  • Generate user report with or without passwords
  • Each user can change his/her password anytime
  • Each user can select screen color options

QUERIES (Lookup)

  • Find records and groups of records by selecting a set of data values, query parameters and options
  • Refine the query by adding or removing records
  • Generate reports and/or mailing labels for the record set found
  • Add the names of the records found to an existing list
  • Export the record set to MS Word (mail merge), or MS Excel or to an ASCII tab-delimited text file
  • Send an email to everyone in the record set who has an email address
  • Display the record set as a list, or view complete information on each record found

 OTHER

  • Use the Global Search feature to find a specific name, word or phrase
  • Adjust forms to fit your screen
  • Automatically email Customer Service by clicking on the Contact Us icon
  • Easily access, and print selections from, the built-in Help book

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