It's been a while since I last posted an entry...and it's been for good reason (kind of). For some time, I have been working on developing and preparing an update for GiftWorks 2006. If you've been using GiftWorks, and like updates, then keep reading.

The update should be released in the next couple days but I thought I might give you a sneak peek into 2 of the features that you might find helpful as you use GiftWorks to manage your information.

Reports

The first feature that we added was to reports. Initially we developed reports to be a quick review of donor and donation information but recognized that if we added a few more features, it would make report much more useful. So here's what we did for reports...

Report Totals

I think most of you will be excited to have the ability to show report totals. Here is a peek what is will look like:

Group Totals

We have also included the ability to view totals for each group (and the ability to combine that with report totals).

Adding Donations and Pledges to Mailings

We have received a number of requests to be able to add donations and pledges to the Donation and Pledge Thank You Letters mailings. This is helpful when you need to resend a large amount of thank you letters or acknowledge donations that were imported or that were previously entered into GiftWorks. In the Mailing Center, if you manage the Donation or Pledge Thank You mailing, you will be able to add donations and pledges to their respective mailings as shown here:

These are just a few of the improvements that you will see in the upcoming update to GiftWorks. Remember that we always appreciate new suggestions which you can submit anytime by clicking on the Make A Suggestion link at the top of your GiftWorks window.