It is recommended that all users of DONATION register, to get onto the mailing list. It is actually required that you do this for Software4Nonprofits.com / Cooperstock Software to be able to process any payment you make for the program, or give you an evaluation extension request, or a license key.
If you have not yet registered (or informed the program that you have done so) a window will come up whenever you start the program, informing you of the benefits of registration, and asking you about registering. It gives you three options: going on to register (as shown below), informing the program that you already registered online or from another computer, or skipping that and being asked about it the next time you start DONATION.
There are two ways to register. Many users will already have registered using the registration form on the REGISTER page on the web site. If you haven't done that, however, you can also register using the Tools à Register Online menu option in the program. (N.B. prior to version 3.30 of the program, this option was on the Help menu instead, and prior to version 3.39, it was called Register by Email.)
When you select Tools à Register Online, or are sent to this window from the window asking you whether you have registered (if you click Register Now in that window), a window such as the following will come up:
The greyed-out fields are not editable. They are taken directly from the information in the Maintenance à Organization Info window. (If they are wrong or incomplete, please Cancel this window, and go to that window to fix them.)
If you have previously used Maintenance à Email Sending Configuration to configure email, the email address for this window will be taken from that configuration and will be greyed-out and not editable. Otherwise, it will be editable. You can fill in or edit all other fields. If you do this registration multiple times on the same computer, your previous entries for those fields will be displayed. However, there is normally no need to register multiple times, unless your contact information changes.
The one slight exception to what is said above is that the Your Name field will be taken from the Receipting Person field on the Organization Info window, but you might want to edit it for registration purposes. Any change you make in this field will not change the Receipting Person.
After filling in all desired fields, click Submit. That will bring up the REGISTER web page on the Software4Nonprofits.com web site, with all of the information from this window pre-filled into it. You can review the information, then click Submit on that web page to actually do the registration. Clicking Submit on this window will also close this window. Within a reasonable period of time (usually less than one day), you should receive an email acknowledgement of your registration back from Software4Nonprofits.