Sending Annual Statement Reports

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Mandy Siess
Mandy Siess
Fifth Anniversary First Comment
in Blackbaud Raiser's Edge NXT®: General Discussion
Without individually running each person's report, how do you send your detailed annual statements of giving to your constituents each year for their tax purposes?
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  • Beth Romano
    Beth Romano
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    we have a group of queries that will summarize the donors total giving and then export the data into Crystal allowing us to customize the wording to the donors.
  • Mandy Siess
    Mandy Siess
    Fifth Anniversary First Comment
    Do you use mail merge to e-mail to the constituents then? We are looking for a way to send their annual statements to them without having to go 1 by 1
  • Crystal Bruce
    Crystal Bruce admin
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    Hey! This post is in the Community feedback forum. I'd be happy to move it to a product/solution. Can you let me know where to move it? Thanks! Mandy Siess‍ !
  • Sharon Campbell
    Sharon Campbell
    Tenth Anniversary First Comment
    How do you add the tax exempt language on the statement since the page and report footers will not allow for enough characters? Is there any way to do it when running that report? What I have done in the past is export each one into crystal reports and add the blurb in a text box. I basically know nothing about crystal reports but I have been able to add the text box.
  • Crystal Bruce
    Crystal Bruce admin
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    Moved this to Raiser's Edge general discussion and out of Community feedback forum. Please let me know if it needs to be somewhere else - wanted more people to see it. Thanks!
  • Judy Spigarelli
    Judy Spigarelli Blackbaud Employee
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    Sharon Campbell‍, that is the challenge I'm having as well.  I want to use only the Annual Statement, but it looks like I'm going to need to add a letter to it since I don't want to move it into Crystal Reports.  I'm interested to hear what others think of our challenge.
  • Maya Francis
    Maya Francis
    Tenth Anniversary Photogenic First Comment Activity: First Reply
    This is how we do it - Create constituent queries to identify donors to send year-end tax letters. We then use an Export with an Export format type 'Blackbaud Simple word merge (DOCX)', which will give you an option to create a word merge document within Raiser's edge with the fields you choose in the output of the Export. The fields from the Export output will be available as merge fields in the merge document. Please refer to this Knowledgebase article on how to use the Mail merge wizard in Export to create a simple merge document.  Hope this helps.

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