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Sage Software Updates Sage Fundraising 50 With 'Donate Now' Functionality to Help Organizations Accept Online Donations With Simplicity and Ease
| Source: Sage Software
AUSTIN, TX--(Marketwire - October 23, 2007) - Sage Software today announced the general
availability of
Sage Fundraising 50, version 8.0, which features new Donate Now
capabilities for Sage
Payment Solutions customers, reporting enhancements, new user defaults,
and enhanced security and system options -- all to help meet nonprofit
organizations' donor and relationship management needs, while increasing
the productivity of their development staffs. Easy-to-use and affordable
fundraising software, Sage Fundraising 50 is designed for all nonprofit
organizations needing a complete set of fundraising and development tools
to help them with donor acquisition, fundraising, and operational
efficiency.
"We are excited to offer donors the ability to donate online through our
Web site, without us having to deal with complications that come with using
a third-party payment service, such as importing, exporting, balancing
reports, and additional fees," said Joanne Boyer, development manager at
Waveny Care Network, a New Canaan, Conn.-based organization providing a
progression of living options, programs, and services for the senior
community and their families, and a premier healthcare resource for most
issues related to aging. "With Sage Fundraising 50, we can easily accept
online donations and then neatly integrate them into our exiting database
with a few clicks of the mouse."
The new Donate Now functionality in version 8.0 allows Sage Fundraising 50
users with Sage Payment Solutions accounts to create donation forms on
their Web sites. The constituent information and donations are then pushed
into their Sage Fundraising 50 database for review and eventual upload.
This seamless integration reduces customers' duplicate data entry, because
gift, recurring gift, and Donate Now data is transferred directly to Sage
Fundraising 50. Sage Payment Solutions maintains PCI (Payment Card
Industry) compliance for every payment processed to keep donors' sensitive
data secure.
Users can customize their organization's Donate Now page to offer donors
options, such as specific gift amounts, organization-specific designations,
honor and memorial gift tracking, recurring gifts, and more.
"The new Donate Now feature will make it so easy for people to donate to
our organization online," said Abigael Okelarin, event coordinator at the
Jewish Foundation for Group Homes, a non-sectarian, 501(c)(3) organization
providing support and services for adults with disabilities in the
Washington, D.C., area. "The donations will be processed automatically, so
we can say goodbye to typing long credit card numbers into bulky credit
card machines. Even better, duplicate data entry will be reduced, since
all donation information will be transferred straight to our Sage
Fundraising 50 database."
Reporting enhancements built into version 8.0 can help Sage Fundraising 50
users strengthen their audit trail. Changes to reports can be saved, and
reports can be stamped with identifying information, such as date, time,
and page number. Validation messages can help users ensure accountability,
while "last saved by" information can help them keep track of changes made
to reports.
New user defaults for five functional areas -- Data Entry and User
Interface, Quick Gift, Import Wizard, Donate Now and Online Gift Processing
-- will enable Sage Fundraising 50 users to continue to use settings that
work best for them. New global security privileges in version 8.0 will
allows administrators to grant permission to only those users needing to
globally edit or add cards.
"I especially like the version 8.0 enhancement that allows me to assign
global security privileges to a user without having to give administrative
rights," said David Hall, major gift manager and information systems
manager at Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, a national, nonprofit
legal services, watchdog, and policy organization dedicated to ending
discrimination against and harassment of military personnel. "In addition,
the new user defaults will help our data entry staff stay organized and
save time on common tasks."
For 25 years, Sage Software has been helping nonprofit organizations
further their missions and better serve constituents through the use of
technology. Sage MIP Fund
Accounting and the range of Sage
Fundraising product choices enable nonprofit organizations, regardless
of size and budget, to select a solution that best fits their needs.
Sage Fundraising 50, version 8.0, is available now from Sage Software
or its authorized business partners. For more information about that
product or other Sage Software Nonprofit Solutions, please visit
www.sagenonprofit.com or call 800-647-3863.
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