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We're considering to take Donations during registrations/applications into development right now, but during analysis of the feature we ran into an issue where we would love to hear your feedback.
Essense of question: how would you like donations during applications or registration to be processed for offline payments (when your member/prospect decided to get an invoice and pay later)?
Some more details:
We can implement donations during event registrations/membership renewals for online payments - not a problem.
But when we're talking about offline payments, straighforward solution seems to be a bit expensive - we don't have invoices for donations or pledges yet.
So right now we're considering going on with straighforward online payments solution (donation will be added to payment transaction) and for offline payments - just include an invoice memo to buyer to add $XXX to his payment as donation for event/membership he has selected.
This way administrators would…
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When our members pay their Dues we also ask for Donations to a special student awards fund. It's my understanding that we cannot take this payment together and then have WA be able to parse out the Dues payment from the Donation, enabling us and members to track both.
This would really be a great feature for us. If we separate this fundraising effort from dues payment, it could negatively affect the amount of funds raised. We would need to be able to make a portion of the payment required (the dues) and then the donation would be optional. Right now we do this just with PayPal and keep track of everything ourselves using Excel and QuickBooks.
At the moment we are not using WA's online dues system at all.
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Hi All
I'm looking into tracking our member activities and found this thread. I think this fits best here.
Our members are involved mostly by serving on different committees and we want to have a record of their involvement. Admittedly, we still communicate with members via Outlook for these things because committees include members and non-members and we have kept Wild Apricot an exclusively member database.
The best idea I've come up with is to create a member field with a multiple choice selection of the various committees. However, there are new committees every year so this would in theory be a long an every growing multiple choice list.
I just don't know what the best approach is. I'm grateful for any advice, input you have.
Thank you,
Ann Bertini
Assistant Director for Programs
Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering
Dear Apricots
We have refrained from using Wild Apricot for dues payment integration because we cannot collect and track donations & dues payments simultaneously.
We collect voluntary donations to our Student Awards Fund as members also pay their dues. If we separate these actions, this would risk a much smaller overall donation level.
In an ideal world, we could collect dues payments and make note of donations that are made above and beyond the dues amount -- with members even having the option to select where they want their donation allocated.
Thank you for your consideration,
Ann Bertini, Assistant Director for Programs
Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering