Donor Categories

You can have two sets of categories to categorize donors. You do not have to use these at all (unlike donation categories, which must be used). They are maintained just like donation categories are maintained, via the options Maintenance à Donor Category 1 and Maintenance à Donor Category 2.

As an example of their use, one set of categories might be used to track members vs. attenders of a church, while the other set of categories might be used to track high, medium or low donors.

You would probably not want to use Donor Categories to track characteristics of your donors in cases where they can have more than one value from the same list, because you can only pick one Category from each of the two Donor Category lists for each donor. For instance, suppose a church had multiple committees that some of its donors sit on, and some donors sit on more than one committee. Then using Donor Category 1 to record which committee a donor sits on would not really work, because you could only record the first committee.