AUSTIN, TX--(Marketwire - October 6, 2010) - Sage North America today announced general availability for Sage Fundraising 50 v8.2, its most intuitive, easy-to-use, and affordable fundraising management software. Sage Fundraising 50 v8.2 features full integration to two Sage connected services: Sage Fundraising Online and Sage Exchange.
Sage Fundraising Online is a flexible fundraising and event management service that helps nonprofits of all sizes more effectively use the Internet to increase giving, participation, and overall support through online donations and registrations. Sage Exchange is Sage's secure, Payment Application Data Security Standard (PA-DSS) certified, integrated payments platform.
"The seamless integration to Sage Exchange helps us feel more confident and better able to promise our donors that we have the best, most secure system for electronic donations," said Tamara Fox, AAHA Helping Pets Fund administrator for the American Animal Hospital Association (AAHA) Foundation in Lakewood, Colo.
The integration with Sage Exchange enhances the security of donation (payment) processing by removing any barriers inhibiting organizations from PA-DSS validation. All credit card data relating to Sage Fundraising 50 v8.2 is securely stored within the Sage Exchange data vault. Sage Exchange encrypts all credit transactions as they are processed, so a donor's credit card information is never stored within the organization's own systems.
In addition to the Sage Exchange integration for secure and Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliant donation processing, Sage Fundraising 50 v8.2 offers additional reporting options to help identify donor trends; improved Canadian receipting; and other customer-requested enhancements.
Another major feature of Sage Fundraising 50 v8.2 is the tight integration to Sage Fundraising Online connected service. Users can quickly deploy Sage Fundraising Online to assist them in maximizing existing marketing strategies and programs to help boost results for event-based fundraisers, rapid response campaigns, and annual appeals. The service is compatible with almost any website, software platform, or content publishing system, enabling nonprofits to easily create multiple giving forms -- in context and alignment with existing marketing messaging -- to better reach new and existing donors online. Portable donation and event registration forms can be personalized and shared by anyone, anywhere on the Web.
"We're a medium-sized nonprofit organization that isn't interested in an expensive or overly technical database," said Patty Counihan, development officer and function manager for Concord Museum in Concord, Mass. "Sage Fundraising 50 provides everything we could possibly need from a donor management system. It's more user-friendly and straightforward than anything else I've worked with."
For more information about Sage Fundraising 50 or other Sage software and services for nonprofits and governments, please visit www.sagenonprofit.com or call 800-811-0961.
About Sage Fundraising 50
Available as licensed software and in a fully managed hosted environment, Sage Fundraising 50 is built for ease-of-use and affordability. Highlighted as part of The Top 10 in Idealware's 2009 report, "A Consumer's Guide to Low Cost Donor Management Systems," Sage Fundraising 50 is an excellent option for nonprofits that need comprehensive fundraising and development tools, such as contact relationship management, volunteer management, event management, payment processing, and many more features and capabilities.
About Sage Nonprofit Solutions
Sage Nonprofit Solutions has been serving nonprofit and governmental organizations for more than 30 years. Sage currently helps more than 3.1 million small and midsized businesses in the U.S. and Canada -- including more than 32,000 unique not-for-profit organizations -- increase efficiency and more easily manage their operations through the use of technology. From fund accounting, donor and fundraising management, and fixed asset management, to online donation processing, human resources (HR), payroll, and health care, Sage offers a software product or service to meet the organization's need.
About Sage North America
Sage North America is part of The Sage Group plc, a leading global supplier of business management software and services. Sage North America employs 4,000 people and supports 3.1 million small and midsized business customers. The Sage Group plc, formed in 1981, was floated on the London Stock Exchange in 1989 and now employs 13,100 people and supports 6.2 million customers worldwide. For more information, please visit the website at www.sagenorthamerica.com.
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