Donarius Changelog

What's new in Donarius 5.99

Sep 6, 2022
  • Donarius keeps track of 'soft credits' which is when someone encourages or advises a donor to donate. In such a case you may want to thank both the person who advised and the person who donated because someone encouraged them. The person who advised is entered together with the donation. Then you can send them both an email or a letter.

New in Donarius 5.732 (May 27, 2021)

  • Donarius now will generate transaction files to be uploaded to EFT Canada.

New in Donarius 5.70 (Mar 29, 2021)

  • Donarius has been integrated with EFT Canada and Elavon.

New in Donarius 5.611 (Dec 19, 2020)

  • Donarius for businesses now does inventory control.

New in Donarius 5.591 (Sep 21, 2020)

  • pick which account to use for state or provincial taxes and give the rate
  • which account to use for GST/HST (in Canada)

New in Donarius 5.59 (Sep 9, 2020)

  • now prints sales receipts on a receipt printer.

New in Donarius 5.57 (Aug 19, 2020)

  • will work with a barcode scanner
  • scan item several times to increase the quantity
  • for products your company makes, can set inventory to Unlimited
  • prints a receivables ledger

New in Donarius 5.52 (Jun 22, 2020)

  • Donarius has been integrated with ShareFaith and eGiving.

New in Donarius 5.51 (Jun 22, 2020)

  • Donarius has been integrated with EasyTithe and Planning Center.

New in Donarius 5.50 (Apr 2, 2020)

  • Donarius has been integrated with Stripe and Parish Giving.
  • In case you use several different online giving providers, you can integrate with them all, e.g. you use both PayPal and Tithe.ly

New in Donarius 5.44 (Jan 6, 2020)

  • 'Gifts in Kind' and 'Gifts with Advantage' receipts are usually printed with one gift per page. Now you can do a yearly receipt that lists all the 'Gifts in Kind' on one page and the 'Gifts with Advantage' on a second page.
  • (Note: this requires the purchase of the Custom Tax Receipts module.)

New in Donarius 5.361 (Jan 6, 2020)

  • Online donations received through EpicPay can be easily imported into Donarius.

New in Donarius 5.35 (Jul 12, 2019)

  • Donarius can export a bank deposit to then be imported into Manager accounting software.

New in Donarius 5.302 (Apr 30, 2019)

  • You now have two formats for a photo directory:
  • Print in landscape mode on both sides of the pages, then fold the pages in half to make a booklet that is 5.5" x 8.5". The photo is beside each family.
  • Print full pages (in portrait mode). First there is a section with the names/addresses in 2 or 3 columns. Then there is a section with each photo.

New in Donarius 5.232 (Dec 3, 2018)

  • Online donations received through PayPal can be easily imported into Donarius.

New in Donarius 5.212 (Oct 21, 2018)

  • Online donations received through Stewardship Technology can be easily imported into Donarius.

New in Donarius 5.211 (Oct 17, 2018)

  • Keeps track of all types of contact with your donors. Normally it would only keep track of letters/emails sent by Donarius. Now you can add any email/letter either received from donor or sent to them. You can also include a short description.

New in Donarius 5.167 (Aug 3, 2018)

  • PDFs can be created using the Bullzip PDF Printer. Bullzip has a free version and three paid versions. All versions encrypt the PDFs and lock them so they cannot be changed. The paid versions have more bits for the encryption.

New in Donarius 5.14 (Jun 12, 2018)

  • Finding donors is much easier.
  • You can search for anyone by their:
  • first or last name
  • donor#
  • envelope #
  • telephone #
  • street (a number + street name)
  • email address
  • postal code (p=code) or zipcode (z=zipcode)
  • mailbox# (M# + number)
  • tax receipt# (R + numbers)
  • All matching names are shown in a list.

New in Donarius 5.051 (Jan 3, 2018)

  • Canadian tax receipts show new CRA website.

New in Donarius 5.04 (Dec 19, 2017)

  • For churches and charities in Canada, the CRA website which must appear on all tax receipts has been updated. If in the future the CRA again changes the website, you can change it yourself without upgrading.

New in Donarius 4.991 (Sep 13, 2017)

  • Various bug fixes.

New in Donarius 4.97 (Aug 8, 2017)

  • Dates entered or on reports can be in Gregorian or Hebrew format. The Hebrew format can be in English transliterated or with Hebrew characters. (This applies only to the version of Donarius for synagogues. i.e. Shluchim Synagogue Management Software)

New in Donarius 4.91 (Apr 20, 2017)

  • Export to QuickBooks

New in Donarius 4.864 (Jan 23, 2017)

  • Various bug fixes.

New in Donarius 4.764 (Oct 27, 2016)

  • If your church/organization has more than one bank account, you can indicate which category gets deposited into which account. When you do a bank deposit, you will get one page for each bank account.
  • You may have both a US dollar and a Canadian dollar bank account. So you are depositing donations in Canadian dollars to one account and those in US dollars to the other. You can now setup each bank account and Donarius will automatically do a bank deposit report for each one.

New in Donarius 4.761 (Jul 15, 2016)

  • Sometimes a husband/wife want to combine their receipts and statements into one and sometimes they want them separately. You can now select what each couple prefers.

New in Donarius 4.40 (Nov 22, 2014)

  • Data can be shared between different computers using OneDrive, TeamDrive, SpiderOak or Dropbox. OneDrive comes included in Windows 8.1. An advantage of TeamDrive is that all your files are encrypted on their servers. So your data is never at risk of being compromised.

New in Donarius 4.37 (Oct 18, 2014)

  • Data can be shared between different computers using SpiderOak. (Or you can continue using Dropbox.) The advantage of SpiderOak is that all your files are encrypted on their servers. Therefore, your data is never at risk of being compromised even if someone gets access to their files. (Note that the files on your computer are not encrypted.)

New in Donarius 4.311 (Jun 4, 2014)

  • Two different sizes of custom label sheets can be setup. A label can have an image or logo on it.

New in Donarius 4.25 (Jan 27, 2014)

  • You can now control the various users of Donarius. For each user select what information they are allowed to access and what functions they are permitted to do. Each user must supply a password to log in. (Can also be used by a single user without entering a password.)

New in Donarius 4.232 (Dec 17, 2013)

  • Emails can be sent from Donarius using your Gmail, Yahoo or AOL email address and using their SMTP server.

New in Donarius 4.171 (Sep 24, 2013)

  • Contribution files received from WeShare (eg: A.C.H or P.A.D.) can be imported in a few steps. For this to work you must purchase the Pre-authorized Deposits module.

New in Donarius 4.141 (Sep 24, 2013)

  • Contribution files received from a company or bank that processes recurring transactions (A.C.H or P.A.D.) can be imported in a few steps. At the moment only Vanco files can be processed, but others will be added at your request. For this to work you must purchase the Pre-authorized Deposits module
  • Store individual and family photos of each person. This makes it easy to print a color photo directory. (Sometimes also called a picture directory or pictorial directory.) You must purchase the Photo Directory module to do this

New in Donarius 4.132 (Sep 24, 2013)

  • Donor list has the option to show name & address on one line.

New in Donarius 4.121 (Sep 24, 2013)

  • Church directories can be printed on printers that can print double-sided (i.e. duplex). This way your directories can be printed faster.