I understand your perspective and many others.

While I think Blackbaud should do something about it, I do not think it should be a “change” rather than an “additional feature”.

Our org record everything as “gift” record, we are a heavily event based organization, all types of event golf outing, to free parlor meeting, to mission and gala dinner.

• golf outing, gala dinner, etc - paid event

  • even a paid event, there is a portion of the gift that is a contribution for us.

  • $1000 ticket to attend a gala event, the Non-Deductible goods and services value is calculated by our finance department to be $300, there is still a $700 contribution the donor is making

  • Then there is event sponsorship, such as a President Sponsorship for $100K, which comes with perks such as 2 tables of 10 (total of 20 people can attend), premium seating at event, etc, where their receipt will include info on the NDA of $300 per person and let the donor determine with their accountant that they brought 15 or 20 people to the event

  • We handle reporting a little custom, so that NDA portion is taken out from contribution

So not adding “gift” to RE for event ticket purchase does not make sense for us. Also part of the reasoning is bank reconciliation.

So rather than change the way it works, Blackbaud should add the option including create gift or not create gift, create gift as “cash” or “other”, etc.

This needs to be changed. They did not give a gift to our organization they only registered for our event that was not free.

Also see this idea to request unlocking the Gift Type field.
https://community.blackbaud.com/products/raisersedgenxt/ideas

I agree - other platforms such as Classy give you a huge amount of flexibility to designate coding for different kinds of transactions so they make sense in the database. This is very clunky and out of touch with non-profits needs - requires use of other platforms and work arounds.

This is a huge issue for us as well. Fees we charge for events are not gifts and should not be sitting in records as pending gifts.

Blackbaud, this is a big issue if you expect us to use the new gift management process in RENXT. We need the ability to change the gift type at the time of reviewing the batch to change for these circumstances where the fee or payment is "non-charitable".

Not all monies coming into a non-profit are charitable gifts. I would think Blackbaud would realize this and not have "one-time" gift as the only option for registration fees (or any other monies) that are 100% non-charitable. We should not have to do "work-arounds" to account for these registration fees like creating a separate fund for them. That fund still shows up in the reports as a gift and throws off the results.

This is absolutely obsurd that it's still recording registration fees as gifts. I have brought it to the attention RE for almost 6 months.

I couldn't agree more! Event registration fees are not gifts and should not be recorded as a gift, even if it has $0 as the receipted amount.