[Web4lib] Web service/tool for managing online contributions

[Leo Robert Klein]

K.G. Schneider wrote:
> Do any of you know of web services/applications (particularly that tie in to
> a MySQL environment) for managing online contributions? 
> 
> I was planning a new table for My Place of Work's content management system
> for this purpose, with the idea that we'd key in that information, and began
> musing how nice it would be to have an e-commerce application that handled
> accepting donations, managing renewals, maybe even hooking in to our table
> or generating its own table...anything that would make it relatively
> seamless to:
> 
> * Accept donations via credit card/PayPal 
> * Create and assign donor levels (Inaugural, Leadership Circle, Supporter,
> etc.)
> * Manage renewal notification
> * Output code to create an online donor page
> * Generate reports on donations

If you want to go the Drupal route, one of the major "modules" is 
CiviCRM which is a customer/constituent relations manager.  One of the 
modules is CiviContribute which can keep tabs of who's contributing what.

It also allows you to create online contribution pages.

More info here:
http://www.openngo.org/
http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRM/CiviContribute+Guide

Again, it pretty much makes sense only if you're going with the Drupal 
(or Mambo) as your CMS.

LEO

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