Fundraising - Still Using Excel?

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Are you engaged in a fundraising effort and find yourself keeping track of the details in Microsoft Excel? Sure Excel is easy to use but it is not the right tool and you probably know it. Excel is fine for a simple list but you need to track all the interactions you are having with your donors and prospects. You also need to analyze all this data. Of course what are your options? The software on the market seems difficult to use and they keep raising the prices. You could try and learn one of those database programs like Microsoft Access or Filemaker but everyone tells you it is not that easy, and they are right. Building software takes trained professionals who understand relational design, sql query languages and programming languages.



RPT Software has just released a donation management software program. At $90 for a single user "Standard" edition to $390 for an unlimited user "Professional" edition the prices are some of the lowest you will find. Our software is designed to match the needs of any nonprofit organization looking to manage their donation database without the high cost and complexity ...
... found in many software packages. Features include:

- Contact management

- Donation management

- Pledge management

- Activities (notes, email, phone calls, meetings etc...)

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- Event management

- Opportunity management

- Invoices

- Email correspondence (custom email templates and email tracking)

- Letter correspondence (integrates with Microsoft word for easy mail merge letters)

- Reporting and Analysis

- Advanced Querying and Filtering

- Customizations available throughout the software

- Ability to hide functionality you don't use

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RPT Software is a software consulting and development firm specializing in Microsoft Access consulting. You can find out more about all their Microsoft Access consulting services at http://www.rptsoftware.com or about their donation management software at http://www.donationmanagementsoftware.com.