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Elizabeth Smith 4
Elizabeth Smith 4
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When making a gift batch, what is the best way to indicate that the donation was received via money order?
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  • JoAnn Strommen
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    Don't know if it's best way but the procedure I adopted for a monthly donor who paid with Money Order was to use payment type personal check (as it was their individual name vs business on MO) and I put "MO" as first entries for check #.


    Just one way...
  • Dariel Dixon 2
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    We have a gift subtype for Money Orders. Then again, it seems like we have a gift subtype for everything... *sigh*
  • Elizabeth Smith 4
    Elizabeth Smith 4
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    This was a great suggestion, thank you! We actually don't utilize "gift subtype" that much so I think this will work nicely.
  • JoAnn Strommen
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    Yes, if you're not utilizing gift sub-type it's certainly an available field.


    The point I remember from a post years ago (can't remember her first name-can picture her) about the field is you are limited to one per gift. She pointed out that if you are using it for another entry for a gift, you can't record both. That stuck with me in my decisions of how to use the field.
  • Stacy Evans
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    We classify it as cash and then in the notes indicate that it was a money order and document the long serial number.

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