These prices are in effect for existing users whose support expires on or after January 1, 2023, and also for all payments received on or after January 1, 2023.
DONATION Version | Features | Annual Fee |
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Lite | Up to 100 donors per year | Program is Free, first month of first year has free support. If support is needed after that you will need to pay for one of the full-featured versions. |
Standard | Fewer than 100,000 donors and receipts per year, annual payments required to keep using it, up to 5 organizations / databases | $99, includes email support and upgrades |
OnDemand or Local Network | Fewer than 100,000 donors and receipts per year, annual payments required to keep using it, up to 5 simultaneous users or over 5 organizations / databases | $149, includes email support and upgrades |
Upgrading | From the Standard to the 5 simultaneous user Local Network, or OnDemand versions | varies, see below for details |
There is no charge to download or evaluate DONATION. To continue using a full version of the program after the 60-day evaluation period, the Annual Fees listed in the table above apply, plus tax for Canadian users.
You can also choose the completely free Lite Version with more limited features, suitable for smaller charities and churches.
After your first Annual Fee payment, you need to pay again in each subsequent year of use, in order to be entitled to keep using the program. (That applies to all versions except for the free Lite version.)
In addition, if you are running the OnDemand version, or you have paid in 2022 or later and are runing Release # 5.00 or later of the Standard or Local Network version, once a year's Annual Fee payment has expired, and after a 30-day grace period, the program will stop working without further payment. Your data will still be there! As soon as you pay again and get an updated license key, you will be able to access it.
Paying the Annual Fee entitles you to:
Once you have paid your Annual Fee for DONATION each year, and received an email receipt for it, you can request a license key to convert your 60-day evaluation version to the full unrestricted version, or continue your usage in future years, through the program's Evaluation and Licensing window. Any data you have entered up to that point will be unaffected by this process. (The Free Lite version does not need license keys, and is not an evaluation version.)
Multiple Users with Multiple Databases
The Standard, Local Network and OnDemand versions of DONATION allow you to have multiple databases for multiple organizations, through the Database ⇒ Switch Databases menu option, at no extra charge (up to 5 for the Standard version at no extra charge). If you have multiple people using the program (which we call "users"), all of whom regularly use the multiple databases, that is fine.
However, if there really is just one main person using each database, who is different from the main person using each other database, and other users never (or only rarely) access that database, that is not the intention of our allowing this to be done at no extra charge. In that case, we would expect that the main user for each organization / database would register and pay for the program separately.
For instance, if one user uses DONATION for two organizations, but occasionally another user needs to look at both of those databases, or take over while the first user is away on vacation, that's fine.
But suppose you have one primary user using DONATION for one organization, and a different primary user using DONATION for another organization, with perhaps occasional switching places while one or the other is on vacation. If they have only one registration and payment, and they are using multiple databases through Database ⇒ Switch Databases and using one of the multiple user options, that would not be considered to be a reasonable application of our pricing structure. They should register and pay separately.
If you start with the free feature-limited Lite version and decide to upgrade to the full-featured Standard version, you can always do so, as follows:
If you start with the free feature-limited Lite version and decide to upgrade to the full-featured OnDemand or Local Network version, you can also do so, as follows:
You can always upgrade from the Standard version to the 5 simultaneous users Local Network or OnDemand version, by first paying as follows:
Then you install the desired version as you normally would, usually starting by installing the Local Network Server version on top of your existing Standard version, or installing the OnDemand Client and following the installation and conversion instructions.