Event Registration Fees

Joanne McConnell

Our event registration fees are showing up on the constituent's profile as a gift, when in fact it is not a gift.  This throws off reporting for us.  Is there a way to record the fee and not have it show up in gifts?  Most of our event registrations are done through online express and entered into a batch.  When the batch is committed, it winds up like a gift on the record.  

John Heizer

In RE any such transaction is a "Gift" even if it has zero (or less than 100%) philanthropic value. It's still money that the donor has given to your organization and should be recognized as part of your relationship with them.  We put such Gifts into a separate Campaign/Fund structure that gets excluded when reporting philanthropic giving.

Hilda Pries

We use a gift type of "other" for all event registrations, and then can easily pull the event fees out of gifts when we run queries, exports and reports.

Robyn Smith

We have two separate funds for registration fees - one for Reunion registrations and one for event registrations. Both the funds are linked to a campaign that is used only for non-gifts. When I pull reports, I simply include all campaigns except the non-gift campaign. 

Samantha Jones

We use various gift types to differentiate in our database.  We have donations, registrations, royalty payments etc so we needed a way to do proper reporting as well.


We did this instead of campaigns or funds b/c we match campaigns to bank accounts and funds to G/L codes.


Good luck!