Author Archives: Ryan

Donor Tools for Good

September 1, 2010 – 7:00 am

If you read this blog, you probably already love Donor Tools. We do things a little differently around here; that’s why when I came up with the idea for Donor Tools for Good, I met a few raised eyebrows. What!? How can we offer a web service for only a one-time fee, and no recurring [...]

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Connect with Me: Waste Not Want Not

August 31, 2010 – 11:35 pm

Last Sunday at our church we listened to a presentation by Sandra Staudt-Killea, Board Chairman of Waste Not Want Not. Normally these presentations are given right before church is dismissed, so you can imagine how much attention they get. But Sandra’s presentation immediately grabbed my attention. It was one of the best examples that I’ve [...]

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Successful Server Move

August 24, 2010 – 7:05 am

… and assorted geekery Last week we undertook the adventure of completely moving our server hosting architecture to it’s new home at Engineyard. We’ve spent the past several months preparing for the move, and I couldn’t be happier; the whole move took less than the two hours we had planned, and in the week following [...]

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Thank-you Emails, now with CC

August 5, 2010 – 1:24 pm

Now, in addition to just sending regular thank-you emails for your donations, you can “CC” (courtesy-copy) an arbitrary email address. To use the CC feature, simply click “Send email” next to a donation in a person’s donation history. Then, fill out the email address as usual, and enter another email address in the CC field. [...]

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What’s New in 1.3.6

July 14, 2010 – 9:34 am

Boy, have we been working hard. The past couple of months we’ve been trickling out tons and tons of little tweaks, minor improvements, and a few pretty exciting features. And those are just the things I can tell you about! Here’s a quick overview of some of the most exciting updates. New Charts & Dashboards [...]

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Asher from Solar Gambia

June 23, 2010 – 9:04 am

Your interface is fantastic. Everything I could want, brilliantly simple. Don’t know what I’d have done without you. Tweet

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Elizabeth from Turnbull Marketing Group

June 18, 2010 – 2:37 pm

Man oh man are we loving Donor Tools right now. I keep asking for help because I can’t believe it’s so easy. And yet, it is easy. Wow. Tweet

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1000

June 2, 2010 – 4:01 pm

If it seems quiet around here, it’s because we’ve been hard at work on some new features that I think you’re going to like. Meanwhile, we just passed a major milestone – 1,000 organizations! We just had our 1000th customer sign up this afternoon. I want to give a big shout out to all our [...]

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Michael from Common Vision

April 26, 2010 – 5:56 pm

Record fast customer service. Tweet

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Recent Updates – Version 1.3.5

April 12, 2010 – 10:00 am

I might groan and complain whenever someone suggests a new feature (it’s my job, as developer, to be grouchy about new features), but I really, genuinely do like it when you suggest features that you’d like to have in Donor Tools. It tells me that you think it’s valuable enough to use (it just needs this one tiny thing), and that you care enough to let us know.

With that, I’d like to tell you about our latest update, Version 1.3.5, which contains a number of mostly small improvements, many of which you’ve told us about.

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