Going from FundRaiser Select to Professional gives you a huge increase in capability. The jump is at least as big as going from Basic to Select. But, the transition is simple and small. First, you'll be glad to hear that all your FundRaiser Select data is already in FundRaiser Professional format. No conversion is necessary. And, since Professional uses FundRaiser Select as its core, all the screens are the same. You'll feel right at home. Only now, you'll have lots of new areas to explore.

Here is a listing of what you can expect:

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All of the modules that are optional in Select are standard in Professional, including QuickBooks Integration, Pledges, Tributes, Memberships, Volunteer Management, Premiums, Product Sales, and Wintix Integration, and most importantly Campaign Management - Streamline and improve your campaign development and execution; Track participation, donations, tickets, RSVP's, attendance, sponsorships; Analyze and compare your campaigns to build on past success.  The only remaining decision with Professional is whether to go single-user, multi-user, or client-server.

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Spare fields are custom user-definable fields for recording information that has no other spot in FundRaiser. In Select, you can have only three. In Professional, there is no limit.

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These are donations that are best split into pieces, like a single check that covers both membership dues and a pledge payment. Or, a donation in support of 4 different activities. In effect, you record one donation for receipting purposes and multiple donations for reporting purposes.

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are given to a donor when s/he is responsible for securing a donation but did not actually make the donation themselves. For example, a donor may have been responsible for generating a donation by a church or civic group. Or, you may want to give a spouse a soft credit for what the other gave. The soft donor gets credit in your newsletter and elsewhere, but their tax-related information stays clear.

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Throughout the program, like more user-definable exclusion and inclusion checkboxes, a gift miscellaneous code and gift period code, the ability to print more than name and address on labels and envelopes, ability to combine Groupings or to subtract one Grouping from another, randomized exports, etc.

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If upgrading from FundRaiser Basic or Select, we will, of course, give you a 100% credit for your past FundRaiser program purchases (sorry data conversion and Annual Maintenance Plan costs can not be included) toward the purchase of FundRaiser Professional. You pay only the difference, so if you don't need Professional today, you can start small (with FundRaiser Basic or Select) and upgrade later.