Category Archives: Donor Tools News

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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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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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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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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Welcome to the Team

April 8, 2010 – 10:11 am

If you’ve been in our support forum lately, you may have noticed that Chris and April have been picking up a lot of slack there. I’m so proud to present the reason why I’ve been somewhat scarce around the (virtual) office: the newest member of our team, little Eliana Joy: Eliana joined founders Ryan and [...]

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Twitter, Facebook & LinkedIn Integration with your Donor Database

February 15, 2010 – 6:11 pm

UPDATE: This post is outdated, as these features have been altered or deprecated. See our Version History for more information. We’re very happy today to announce our first step into social media integration with your nonprofit donor database. Now you can start connecting with donors on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin and have a quick way to [...]

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A Minor Change to QuickBooks Export

February 5, 2010 – 2:06 pm

If you use Donor Tools’ Quickbooks Export feature, and you receive donations via PayPal, you’ll want to take note of this minor change. We’ve changed the way that transaction fees are reflected in the IIF file generated by Donor Tools. PayPal transactions are still recorded into Undeposited Funds, just as before. Previously, PayPal fees were [...]

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New: Import your Whole Donor Database

February 3, 2010 – 2:54 pm

For a long time it’s been possible to import your donor list into Donor Tools. But up until now there hasn’t been an easy way to import donations as well. So many people have asked for this feature, and we’ve heard you! Introducing the new, improved Donor Tools data import feature. Now you can import your [...]

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