Converting Data from Other Programs

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Some organizations may have been using other programs to track their donations, either general-purpose database programs or commercial donations programs. DONATION currently has three different features available for importing existing data from other programs:

•	Importing Donors from other Programs imports only Donor information from variously formatted text files, and is the easiest and most flexible option to use. Most users who choose to do importing use only this option.

•	Importing Donations from Other Programs or Regular Donations imports Donation information from specially-formatted text files.

•	Importing all Data from Other Programs can import Organization Info, Donors, Donations, Donation Categories and Receipts from specially-formatted text files, but is quite complex to use.

•	Converting Data from Membership Plus imports Organization Info, Donors, Donations (for the last two working years) and Donation Categories from certain versions of the Membership Plus program.

•	Converting Data from Church Assistant imports Organization Info, Donors, Donations (for the current working year) and Donation Categories from the Wincrafters Church Assistant program.

Some users who are converting from another program either will not choose to import the data from it, or will not be able to. In that case, to avoid too much re-typing of data, you would be advised to start using DONATION as close to the beginning of a new year as possible.

N.B. The import options are not available with the free Lite version of DONATION.