I can create an event for our big annual gala, but the thermometers focus on the capacity, which frankly is meaningless for a fundraising event. We'll keep making room for contributors!
Also people can't donate to the event in lieu of attending. I have to enter a separate payment to that designation, which is not reflected anywhere in the event. My board asks me on a weekly basis for six months, "how many tables/tickets have we sold?" and "How much have we raised?" I still have to keep a separate Excel spreadsheet to track these numbers to be ready immediately.
With Altru I can only say how much we've spent and how many individuals are coming, which is not accurate due to the nature of these events, and nobody really focuses on that until a few weeks out when the final catering tally is due anyway.
James Hays
We definitely want to be able to track donations in lieu of attending.
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I have been raging about this for two days. How is it that you can create a FUNDRAISING event module, yet, you don't provide a tracking on FUNDS RAISED. Capacity has no bearing on funds raised. It's truly maddening. If you are easily able to adjust the cap or 'goal' on the capacity why on EARTH can't you include they exact same functionality for funds raised....especially since it is a FUNDRAISER. It just defies logic.
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I agree that donations to the event should be tracked as part of the event. I have added a field: Donated, but not attending, and given it an attendance of 1. Then I mark "will not attend." Of course, I have to change the amount for each donation that comes in.
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