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How to Batch Import Merchandise Items into Altru (and What to Do If You Can’t)
Opening a new gift shop line, switching POS vendors, or converting to Altru from another system all lead to the same job: hundreds or thousands of merchandise items that need to exist in Altru before anything can be rung up. Keying them one at a time is slow and error-prone, so the first question is
How to Mark an Organization as Giving Anonymously in Altru
A family foundation sends a generous gift with one condition: keep our name off the donor wall. For an individual donor, that is usually a checkbox on the constituent record in Altru. For an organization record, many administrators go looking for the same option and come up empty. That gap is where anonymous corporate and
How to Report Attendance in Altru: Totals, Averages, and Definitions
“How many people came through the gate last year?” sounds like the easiest question a board member can ask. In Altru it often takes a day to answer. The data isn’t missing. The problem is that “attendance” means three or four different things in Altru, and each one is stored in a different place. Before
Custom Report Writing for Altru: Crystal Reports, Queries, and BI Tools
Sooner or later a board member, a finance director, or a grant officer asks for a report Altru doesn’t have. Maybe it’s attendance by ZIP code next to membership revenue, or a one-page monthly summary with your logo on it. The standard reports come close but not quite, and someone remembers that the last place
How to Get a Date Range Out of the Altru Inventory Report
Month-end close comes around and finance asks a simple question about the gift shop: what was on the shelf on the first of the month, what sold, and what’s left? You open the Altru inventory report, look for a start date and an end date, and find that the report mostly tells you what’s on
Omatic vs Social Good Software: Which Fits Altru Organizations?
Omatic and Social Good Software both appear on shortlists for Blackbaud Altru organizations, but they solve different problems. Omatic is built for nonprofit data integration and data health across systems. Social Good Software is built to improve Altru revenue operations and guest experiences. This article explains what each is optimized for, and when Social Good
