Features of Abila FR50
Additional System Features
Abila Fundraising 50 delivers critical system features to help manage, consolidate, and maintain your data efficiently and accurately. For example
Robust campaign management tools in Abila Fundraising 50 allow you to plan and manage simple or complex fundraising campaigns, including all the supporting activities such as events, solicitations and major gift requests for those campaigns. Built-in fundraising management tools give you the visibility to maximize the levels of responses, minimize the costs and more.
Communication Toolset Module for CRM Nonprofit
Effectively communicating with your donors is the key to retention, gift growth, and loyalty. Sage Fundraising 50 has a range of e-mail, mail merge, and other tools that work directly in the CRM nonprofit system to effectively communicate with your constituency, personalize your message, and tell your story.
Contact Management Module
<p>Easily maintain and track the status of your donor contacts, including solicitations, invitations, and correspondence with CRM nonprofit management capabilities in Abila Fundraising 50. Improve relationships with foundations and corporations with set reminders about upcoming steps and deadlines for grant proposals and grant reporting.</p>
<ul>
<li>Move donors to the next giving level with scheduled key communication opportunities </li>
<li>Easily track best times and methods of contacting supporters, including multiple addresses, phone numbers, and emails </li>
<li>Never miss a scheduled contact or grant deadline with tickler reminder feature </li>
<li>Increase your organization’s grant opportunities with the proposal tracking card </li>
<li>Associate each prospect with a staff member and set alerts for upcoming proposal steps and deadlines</li>
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<h4>Data Import Wizard</h4>
<h3>Data Import Wizard Module</h3>
<p>It’s quick and easy to import excel data or other program data from third-party applications, list acquisitions, or other systems in your office into Abila Fundraising 50. The Data Import Wizard allows you to drag-and-drop data onto the desired card, visually verify accuracy, and validate your data before importing.</p>
<li>Eliminate the need for manual entry of list data </li>
<li>Save time with options to create templates for future imports of the data you consistently need in Sage Fundraising 50 </li>
<li>Easily keep your constituent’s information current with update-and-replace functionality </li>
<li>Maintain data integrity with options to visually verify data accuracy prior to the import, as well as the ability to “undo” the import</li>
<h4>Event Management</h4>
<h3>Event Management Module</h3>
<br />
<p>Sage Fundraising 50 can be used to plan, organize, and manage all aspects of both simple and complex fundraising events, even produce name tags. The event management software will help you to strengthen and grow the events while continuing to use your organization’s unique approach.</p>
<ul>
<li>Easily manage the complete event cycle, including event and activity planning, invitations and responses, registration, attendance, guest information, and seating and grouping </li>
<li>Accurately tracks fees associated with events, and generate gifts and pledges if the fee, or a portion of it, is considered a donation </li>
<li>Customize Sage Fundraising 50’s Event Management Software for your specific types of events such as galas, conferences, golf tournaments, and charity walks </li>
<li>Maintain comprehensive participant information as well as expenses and revenues generated for cost benefit analysis </li>
<li>Turn guests into continuous supporters with tools to identify non-constituents on your guest lists </li>
<li>Increase the success of your events with easy, yet comprehensive reporting</li>
<h4>Donor Management</h4>
<h3>Donor Management Module</h3>
<br />
<p>The Donor Management features in Sage Fundraising 50 provides you with the ability to manage all aspects of constituent management, including solicitations and the gifts that result from various fundraising initiatives. Use this donor management software to develop and maintain profiles of your donors and contributors, track giving amounts and personal demographics, and target future requests.</p>
<ul>
<li>Easily track key information associated with donors and prospects, including contribution details </li>
<li>Quickly display key data for campaigns, appeals, funds, events, proposals, membership drives and more with the dynamic “Snap Shot” charts </li>
<li>Move donors to the next giving level, improve communications and solicitations with scheduled key communication opportunities and comprehensive tracking for each donor </li>
<li>Easily access comprehensive demographic information for any individual, family or organization </li>
<li>Increase contribution opportunities with complete relationship, affiliation, membership and history tracking for each donor </li>
<li>Know more about your donors with unlimited attributes, specialized notes, and file attachment capabilities to enhance donor profiles</li>
</ul>
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<h4>Gift Management</h4>
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<h3>Gift Management Module</h3>
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<p>Comprehensive gift management capabilities allow you to set up and manage your data entry, gift and pledge tracking, payment schedules, acknowledgements and receipting with ease. Use the full gift management functionality to your advantage by implementing new fundraising programs for sustaining, recurring or monthly giving without the need for additional resources.</p>
<ul>
<li>Increase staff efficiency with quick gift entry tools </li>
<li>Keep pledges up-to-date with payment scheduling and automated reminders </li>
<li>Easily record, track, and retain detailed information for all gift types and pledges with unlimited user-defined gift attributes, including gifts made in honor or in memory (tributes) </li>
<li>Acknowledge and share gifts properly with split gifts and gift sharing </li>
<li>Quickly generate customized acknowledgments and receipts </li>
<li>Save time on data consolidation with capabilities to record gift details in accordance to your finance office’s accounting structures and transferring the gift data electronically</li>
</ul>
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</p>
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<h4>Gift Matching</h4>
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</dt>
<dd>
<h3>Gift Matching Module</h3>
<br />
<p>It can be a complex process to track and identify opportunities for gift matching. Using the gift matching feature in Sage Fundraising 50, the process is simplified, opening a door for your organization to benefit from increased awareness of constituents and employers.</p>
<ul>
<li>Maximize your efforts to capture all possible donor dollars by identifying possible matching gift opportunities </li>
<li>Collect on all possible contributions by tracking and identifying relationships between employers and your constituents </li>
<li>Reduce data entry with automatic creation of matching gifts </li>
<li>Acknowledge and share gifts properly with split gifts and gift sharing </li>
<li>Easily analyze gifts generated from matching gifts within each campaign or solicitation or project potential gifts with flexible reporting options</li>
</ul>
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</p>
</dd>
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<h4>Membership Management</h4>
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</dt>
<dd>
<h3>Membership Management Module</h3>
<br />
<p>Use Sage Fundraising 50 for membership management to easily profile each member and instantly access information regarding each constituent’s joining date, with whom he or she has relationships, and when the constituent needs to renew his or her membership.</p>
<ul>
<li>Effectively track key information associated with memberships including renewed, lapsed, and dropped memberships </li>
<li>Automatically generate renewal notices in advance of expiration for effective membership management </li>
<li>Increase renewal rates and target possible membership upgrades with comprehensive querying and reporting on expiring memberships </li>
<li>Quickly access membership lists, membership level lists, status, and analysis of membership changes </li>
<li>Increase membership opportunities with complete relationship, affiliation, history tracking for each member </li>
<li>Know more about your members with unlimited attributes, specialized notes, and file attachment capabilities to enhance member profiles</li>
</ul>
<p>
</p>
</dd>
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<h4>Payment and Online Gift Processing</h4>
</span>
</dt>
<dd>
<h3>Easily Capture Donations From Your Web Site</h3>
<br />
<p>Tap into the power of e-Philanthropy! Whether you manage a sophisticated contextual fundraising strategy, need to maximize event registrations, or simply embed compelling donation forms on your current website, Sage Fundraising 50 has a variety of options to support your organization’s online goals.</p>
<p>With full integrations to available Sage Fundraising Online and Sage Payment Solutions with Donate Now! capabilities, your organization can enable a contextual fundraising strategy to increase online donations while reducing duplicate data entry.</p>
<ul>
<li>Increase operational efficiency and save valuable resource time with gift processing within a single system </li>
<li>Save money with nonprofit group processing rates </li>
<li>Reduce liability and limit exposure to possible credit card data breaches </li>
<li>Eliminate time-consuming duplicate data entry and potential data entry errors </li>
<li>Lower costs further by accepting ACH payments in addition to credit cards </li>
<li>Boost donor retention by easily establishing a comprehensive recurring giving program with limited maintenance efforts</li>
</ul>
<p>View a concise overview of the seamless integration between Sage Fundraising 50 and secure payment processing for your gifts and pledges donated by credit/debit cards or electronic fund transfers (EFT). <p></p></dd>
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<h4>Volunteer Management</h4>
</span>
</dt>
<dd>
<h3>Volunteer Management Module</h3>
<br />
<p>Strengthen your network of volunteers with Sage Fundraising 50’s volunteer management capabilities. Maintain several levels of volunteer management, from a simple assignment and hours tracking system to a detailed hierarchy structure of information.</p>
<ul>
<li>Build volunteer profiles to track preferred hours, availability, and key skills and interests to match volunteers with available jobs </li>
<li>Create volunteer schedules, track hours, and value of volunteered time for development reports </li>
<li>Easily track your volunteer’s past contributions and work, including dollar values associated with the activity </li>
<li>Manage volunteer contact with potential and current donors with moves management capabilities </li>
<li>Schedule and manage volunteer recognition events, as well as anniversaries and awards</li>
Abila Fundraising 50 delivers critical system features to help manage, consolidate, and maintain your data efficiently and accurately. For example
- Non Profit Accounting Interface — eliminate duplication of data entry and manual verification of gifts with the finance department with seamless GL export integration with Sage 100 Fund Accounting and Sage 50 Formerly know as Peachtree by Sage, or the accounting system of your organization’s choice
- Import/Export Tool — quickly and easily to import data into the system using the drag-and-drop
- Data Import Wizard, and export the data you need into other applications with the quick export tools within the report writer
- Merge/Purge Utility — keep your data accurate by consolidating two similar records with merge/purge functionality
- Duplicate Check Utility — easily check your data for duplicate records both during and after importing data using the Duplicate Check utility
- CorrectData Services — ensure that your constituent data is up to date with user-friendly, cost-effective, efficient address cleansing and updating service
- And more!
Robust campaign management tools in Abila Fundraising 50 allow you to plan and manage simple or complex fundraising campaigns, including all the supporting activities such as events, solicitations and major gift requests for those campaigns. Built-in fundraising management tools give you the visibility to maximize the levels of responses, minimize the costs and more.
- Increase the effectiveness of your fundraising campaign processes from prospect analysis and communication delivery to measuring results
- Plan effective campaigns with standard analytical reports that show performance summaries by campaign and fund, relative to the previous year or current goals, and direct mail analysis
- Selectively target solicitations and maximize the rate and level of your response
- Quickly access the status of campaign progress through Snapshot Campaign Summary Reports or Campaign overview graphs
- Keep key campaign stakeholders in the know before, during and after the campaign with comprehensive campaign reports
- Easily track and report on each activity’s cost-per-dollar-raised directly in Sage Fundraising 50
Communication Toolset Module for CRM Nonprofit
Effectively communicating with your donors is the key to retention, gift growth, and loyalty. Sage Fundraising 50 has a range of e-mail, mail merge, and other tools that work directly in the CRM nonprofit system to effectively communicate with your constituency, personalize your message, and tell your story.
- Easily create deeply personalized appeals, thank-you notes, acknowledgements and receipts with comprehensive merge capabilities
- Save hours of formatting time with “quick label” and envelope printing options
- Keep communications on track with Abila Fundraising 50’s abilities to work directly with Microsoft Outlook to display your e-mail,
calendar and task lists - Reduce marketing costs and reach your constituency quickly through targeted e-mails
- Easily send mass e-mails using time-delayed batching tools to help ensure your e-mail communication does not become
blocked or marked as spam.
Contact Management Module
<p>Easily maintain and track the status of your donor contacts, including solicitations, invitations, and correspondence with CRM nonprofit management capabilities in Abila Fundraising 50. Improve relationships with foundations and corporations with set reminders about upcoming steps and deadlines for grant proposals and grant reporting.</p>
<ul>
<li>Move donors to the next giving level with scheduled key communication opportunities </li>
<li>Easily track best times and methods of contacting supporters, including multiple addresses, phone numbers, and emails </li>
<li>Never miss a scheduled contact or grant deadline with tickler reminder feature </li>
<li>Increase your organization’s grant opportunities with the proposal tracking card </li>
<li>Associate each prospect with a staff member and set alerts for upcoming proposal steps and deadlines</li>
</ul>
</dd>
<dt>
<span "FONT-SIZE: 14pt">
<h4>Data Import Wizard</h4>
<h3>Data Import Wizard Module</h3>
<p>It’s quick and easy to import excel data or other program data from third-party applications, list acquisitions, or other systems in your office into Abila Fundraising 50. The Data Import Wizard allows you to drag-and-drop data onto the desired card, visually verify accuracy, and validate your data before importing.</p>
<li>Eliminate the need for manual entry of list data </li>
<li>Save time with options to create templates for future imports of the data you consistently need in Sage Fundraising 50 </li>
<li>Easily keep your constituent’s information current with update-and-replace functionality </li>
<li>Maintain data integrity with options to visually verify data accuracy prior to the import, as well as the ability to “undo” the import</li>
<h4>Event Management</h4>
<h3>Event Management Module</h3>
<br />
<p>Sage Fundraising 50 can be used to plan, organize, and manage all aspects of both simple and complex fundraising events, even produce name tags. The event management software will help you to strengthen and grow the events while continuing to use your organization’s unique approach.</p>
<ul>
<li>Easily manage the complete event cycle, including event and activity planning, invitations and responses, registration, attendance, guest information, and seating and grouping </li>
<li>Accurately tracks fees associated with events, and generate gifts and pledges if the fee, or a portion of it, is considered a donation </li>
<li>Customize Sage Fundraising 50’s Event Management Software for your specific types of events such as galas, conferences, golf tournaments, and charity walks </li>
<li>Maintain comprehensive participant information as well as expenses and revenues generated for cost benefit analysis </li>
<li>Turn guests into continuous supporters with tools to identify non-constituents on your guest lists </li>
<li>Increase the success of your events with easy, yet comprehensive reporting</li>
<h4>Donor Management</h4>
<h3>Donor Management Module</h3>
<br />
<p>The Donor Management features in Sage Fundraising 50 provides you with the ability to manage all aspects of constituent management, including solicitations and the gifts that result from various fundraising initiatives. Use this donor management software to develop and maintain profiles of your donors and contributors, track giving amounts and personal demographics, and target future requests.</p>
<ul>
<li>Easily track key information associated with donors and prospects, including contribution details </li>
<li>Quickly display key data for campaigns, appeals, funds, events, proposals, membership drives and more with the dynamic “Snap Shot” charts </li>
<li>Move donors to the next giving level, improve communications and solicitations with scheduled key communication opportunities and comprehensive tracking for each donor </li>
<li>Easily access comprehensive demographic information for any individual, family or organization </li>
<li>Increase contribution opportunities with complete relationship, affiliation, membership and history tracking for each donor </li>
<li>Know more about your donors with unlimited attributes, specialized notes, and file attachment capabilities to enhance donor profiles</li>
</ul>
<p>
</p>
</dd>
<dt>
<span "FONT-SIZE: 14pt">
<h4>Gift Management</h4>
</span>
</dt>
<dd>
<h3>Gift Management Module</h3>
<br />
<p>Comprehensive gift management capabilities allow you to set up and manage your data entry, gift and pledge tracking, payment schedules, acknowledgements and receipting with ease. Use the full gift management functionality to your advantage by implementing new fundraising programs for sustaining, recurring or monthly giving without the need for additional resources.</p>
<ul>
<li>Increase staff efficiency with quick gift entry tools </li>
<li>Keep pledges up-to-date with payment scheduling and automated reminders </li>
<li>Easily record, track, and retain detailed information for all gift types and pledges with unlimited user-defined gift attributes, including gifts made in honor or in memory (tributes) </li>
<li>Acknowledge and share gifts properly with split gifts and gift sharing </li>
<li>Quickly generate customized acknowledgments and receipts </li>
<li>Save time on data consolidation with capabilities to record gift details in accordance to your finance office’s accounting structures and transferring the gift data electronically</li>
</ul>
<p>
</p>
</dd>
<dt>
<span "FONT-SIZE: 14pt">
<h4>Gift Matching</h4>
</span>
</dt>
<dd>
<h3>Gift Matching Module</h3>
<br />
<p>It can be a complex process to track and identify opportunities for gift matching. Using the gift matching feature in Sage Fundraising 50, the process is simplified, opening a door for your organization to benefit from increased awareness of constituents and employers.</p>
<ul>
<li>Maximize your efforts to capture all possible donor dollars by identifying possible matching gift opportunities </li>
<li>Collect on all possible contributions by tracking and identifying relationships between employers and your constituents </li>
<li>Reduce data entry with automatic creation of matching gifts </li>
<li>Acknowledge and share gifts properly with split gifts and gift sharing </li>
<li>Easily analyze gifts generated from matching gifts within each campaign or solicitation or project potential gifts with flexible reporting options</li>
</ul>
<p>
</p>
</dd>
<dt>
<span "FONT-SIZE: 14pt">
<h4>Membership Management</h4>
</span>
</dt>
<dd>
<h3>Membership Management Module</h3>
<br />
<p>Use Sage Fundraising 50 for membership management to easily profile each member and instantly access information regarding each constituent’s joining date, with whom he or she has relationships, and when the constituent needs to renew his or her membership.</p>
<ul>
<li>Effectively track key information associated with memberships including renewed, lapsed, and dropped memberships </li>
<li>Automatically generate renewal notices in advance of expiration for effective membership management </li>
<li>Increase renewal rates and target possible membership upgrades with comprehensive querying and reporting on expiring memberships </li>
<li>Quickly access membership lists, membership level lists, status, and analysis of membership changes </li>
<li>Increase membership opportunities with complete relationship, affiliation, history tracking for each member </li>
<li>Know more about your members with unlimited attributes, specialized notes, and file attachment capabilities to enhance member profiles</li>
</ul>
<p>
</p>
</dd>
<dt>
<span "FONT-SIZE: 14pt">
<h4>Payment and Online Gift Processing</h4>
</span>
</dt>
<dd>
<h3>Easily Capture Donations From Your Web Site</h3>
<br />
<p>Tap into the power of e-Philanthropy! Whether you manage a sophisticated contextual fundraising strategy, need to maximize event registrations, or simply embed compelling donation forms on your current website, Sage Fundraising 50 has a variety of options to support your organization’s online goals.</p>
<p>With full integrations to available Sage Fundraising Online and Sage Payment Solutions with Donate Now! capabilities, your organization can enable a contextual fundraising strategy to increase online donations while reducing duplicate data entry.</p>
<ul>
<li>Increase operational efficiency and save valuable resource time with gift processing within a single system </li>
<li>Save money with nonprofit group processing rates </li>
<li>Reduce liability and limit exposure to possible credit card data breaches </li>
<li>Eliminate time-consuming duplicate data entry and potential data entry errors </li>
<li>Lower costs further by accepting ACH payments in addition to credit cards </li>
<li>Boost donor retention by easily establishing a comprehensive recurring giving program with limited maintenance efforts</li>
</ul>
<p>View a concise overview of the seamless integration between Sage Fundraising 50 and secure payment processing for your gifts and pledges donated by credit/debit cards or electronic fund transfers (EFT). <p></p></dd>
<dt>
<span "FONT-SIZE: 14pt">
<h4>Volunteer Management</h4>
</span>
</dt>
<dd>
<h3>Volunteer Management Module</h3>
<br />
<p>Strengthen your network of volunteers with Sage Fundraising 50’s volunteer management capabilities. Maintain several levels of volunteer management, from a simple assignment and hours tracking system to a detailed hierarchy structure of information.</p>
<ul>
<li>Build volunteer profiles to track preferred hours, availability, and key skills and interests to match volunteers with available jobs </li>
<li>Create volunteer schedules, track hours, and value of volunteered time for development reports </li>
<li>Easily track your volunteer’s past contributions and work, including dollar values associated with the activity </li>
<li>Manage volunteer contact with potential and current donors with moves management capabilities </li>
<li>Schedule and manage volunteer recognition events, as well as anniversaries and awards</li>