Contributions from Donors (non-members)

Financial contributions are assigned to either members or donors. Donors are any non-member entities who have made financial contributions to your church. This can include non-member individuals such as guests as well as organizations and businesses.

Linking Members to Donor Businesses

What's really neat is that you can link a donor to a member and so assign contributions to a member and donor at the same time. This is helpful in situations where members make contributions through their businesses.

This ensures that tax receipts are created for the business (the donor) and not the member. However, member statements and the member's My contribution page in Church Social will still include any contributions made via a business as you can see in the screenshot below.

Importing contributions

Contributions by donors can be imported using the import tool.  The importer will assign the contribution to a member, to a donor or to both a member and donor if they are linked. Be sure to enter the Donor's name in the import file otherwise the contribution will only be assigned to the member.