Thursday 29 June 2017

MyGiving.Online - The Complete Online Donations Management System of Data Developments

Handling donations has always been a task for the churches and charities considering the huge amount of time it consumes, and the chances of mistakes still seem to get no less. With this persisting problem of fund management it is important to have software or a system that can perfectly manage the donations, without the risk of problems.  

MyGiving.Online – Re-imagining the Way to Handle Donations

MyGiving.Online, the Data Developments’ system is a complete online donations management system that has been designed to re-imagine the way churches and nonprofits handle donations, saving time and effort. 

The Benefits of MyGiving.Online 

MyGiving.Online comes with a lot of benefits that you cannot otherwise expect with fund management; here’s a list of the most common benefits: 

  • New giving opportunities
  • Increase giving 
  • Minimized manual input
  • Reduced errors
  • Reduced record maintenance
  • Better reporting standards
  • No hardware restrictions

Understanding how MyGIving.Online works 

Once you’ve registered a MyGiving.Online account for your church, charity or nonprofit organization you can then create new users and give them customised permissions to access the parts of the system that you decide. You can use MyGiving.Online to record all of your donors (whether you can claim Gift Aid on their donations or not) simply by looking up the address via their postcode. You can then record/import all of the donations, whether by envelope, cash, Standing Order, Direct Debit, Credit/Debit card, PayPal, GASDS eligible, etc.

Using MyGiving.Online Mobile App

Using the MyGiving. Online mobile app happens in these two stages: 

  1. The Gift Aid secretary has to create the login details on the donor’s record to enable them to be able to access their details.
  2. The donor will then download our free app and use the login details provided by the Gift Aid secretary.
The Cost and Everything

MyGiving.Online costs £15 per month including VAT.

This includes:

  • Use of the software
  • Use of the mobile app
  • As many users as you wish
  • As many donors as you wish
  • All version upgrades
  • Technical support by telephone, email and support ticket

Need more information? Log on to http://www.datadevelopments.co.uk/mygivingonline

Monday 26 June 2017

How Important is Mobile Optimization for Donor Engagement?

More often than not you’ll see people using their mobile phones almost every time, which simply means the number of mobile users is on a constant increase. Looking at this, it can be clearly said that even for the purpose of donor engagement it is very important to let your donors pay through mobile phones. This further points an important thing – mobile optimization for donor engagement. 

You might as well as how important is mobile optimization for donor engagement, and the answer is ‘Very Important’.

According to a 64% of adults owned a smartphone in 2015, up from just 35% in 2011. Not only that but 88% of those people use their smartphone to check their email. If you’ve put in time crafting a stellar email marketing campaign, and online donation page, great job! Make sure your web content is just as strong for smartphone users. 

What is meant by Mobile Optimization?

Donor optimization in simple words means that the donors should be able to view the nonprofits web content on their mobile phones, tablets, or any other mobile devices just as easily as on their desktops. The point is that they shouldn’t have to zoom in or scroll the page sideways in order to see the text and graphics clearly. The page should be such that the users should be able to easily click links, which also means they need to be larger than on your desktop website. In short, make it as easy as possible for a donor to learn about your work and make a donation from their mobile device.

Advantages of Mobile Optimization for Donor Engagement – 

  • Increased donors: The number of people using mobile phones is increasing some of which might be donors who are comfortable using only mobile phones instead of laptops. In that case you will be able to increase the base of your donors and receive more donations all together. 
  • Retaining old donors: Once you use mobile friendly software for charities you will be able to retain your old donors because just like you your donors are positively impacted by technology. Make the payment process convenient for the  donors or add detailed instructions about how the donors should make payments after mobile optimization. 
  • Keeping track becomes easy: When some of your donors move to making donations through mobile devices it becomes easier for the nonprofit to keep a track of the details more efficiently. The organizations will now be able to differentiate the percentage of donations made through mobile devices as well as laptops, etc. 

Mobile optimization is a major thing to consider for a nonprofit because just as much you think it helps them it will help you it will be responsible for donor engagement in the longer run.