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Professional Services - Do you have an upcoming event or program planned that needs to utilize the latest online tools to maximize efficiency, yet satisfy the data collection requirements of various back-end legacy systems? If this sounds familar, you may be a candidate for our Professional Services. We can quickly and efficiently map out the most cost effective solution, regardless of whether or not you wish to use our online tools. To request more information click here

1. Fully customizable secure online Donation Form: Your donation form is customizable to match the look and feel of your current website. This way your donors have the trust that they are donating to your cause. Your donation form can accept credit card or cash donations with real-time processing and direct deposit into your organization's bank accounts. You receive your funds almost immediately and can put them to work. Every donor receives a customized donation receipt; detailing their name, donation amount and donation designation, if applicable. It is important that donor's get both an onscreen and an email receipt so they are assured their record is on file just in case a follow up is necessary. Click here view a sample.
2. IRS and CCRA (Canada) approved Electronic Tax Receipting (with reporting features): You are able to immediately provide your donors with their official receipts for income tax purposes. All e-receipts are designed to have the same look and feel as your current paper receipts and are fully customized with all of the donor and donation information. This service eliminates any manual receipting or mass receipt mailings that you may be doing with your current mail or phone donations. Most charities can reduce their cost per donation from a $2.00 industry standard to only $.50 per online donation Click here to see a sample eReceipt.
3. Wireless Donation Forms for use in mobile fundraising. Wireless payment devices allow the ability to expand locations without the expense of a wired infrastructure. This makes it more convenient to raise funds in a door-to-door or event type situation.
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Our donation forms can be easily customized to give your donors the flexibility in making donations.

1. Monthly Donation Capture: Customize your donation form to allow your donors to sign up for monthly giving programs using either their credit cards or direct withdrawal from their bank accounts. A key component to any fundraising program is monthly donations. Now your donors can sign up online and provide you with all the necessary information conveniently and securely online. Donor information is handled in the following ways:
   • Via encrypted email sent to the charity or not-for-profit
   • Automatically uploaded to our recurring batch processing program which processes the transaction on a recurring monthly/annual basis.
   • Automatically uploaded to a secure area where the information can be downloaded
2. In Memory/In Honour/Tribute Donation options: Allow your donors to give on behalf or in memory of others. Click here to see a example.
3. Electronic Tax Receipting PDF Creator: A system that will allow you to upload a file of donation records and generate electronic tax receipts that will be sent to your donor's email address. All e-receipts are designed to have the same look and feel as your current paper receipts. Reporting is provided along with the ability to download a file of the PDF electronic tax receipts for your records after the transactions are processed.

Compliment your online fundraising plan and incorporate some of these highly successfully tools.

1. CharityBid - Online Auctions: Helpforcharities.com has put together one of the most comprehensive online auction products available today. CharityBid is tailored to the charitable sector needs; to maximize its fundraising capabilities while minimizing the administration and technology needs for the charity client. CharityBid's ease of use and setup features allow users to do all the product set up on their own, add or delete products at any time, set minimum bid amounts, as well as a host of other administration features. You have control of the admin features which lends itself to a more satifactory online auction experience. CharityBid can be customized to include the same artwork as appears on your own website. This helps add to the trust factor while participating - especially when online auctions are new to many people. When you are marrying online payment with an online application things can get complicated, but technical support is a breeze since we are both payment providers and software application programmers. As always we are available to train your staff in use of the auction tool as required. Click here to try our demonstration page.   Click here to see an example.
2. CharityGolf - Online Golf Tournament Registrations: This online charity golf tournament registration system will take all the worry and effort out of administering the registration process for your tournament. CharityGolf has a full reporting feature that will show team and individual registrations. Again this can be customized to the look and feel of your website. Additional customizations can include taking dinner reservations on the same form and the set up of electronic tax receipting to issue the qualifying amount on the tax receipts as per your local tax regulations. We can also produce a data file for upload into a spreadsheet so that your admin staff will have easy access to registration data. This makes it easy to check someone in and pair up foursomes.
3. CharityReg - Online Registrations: Allow your members or donors to register for special events, conferences, meetings or courses securely online. You can start up with something basic and add components as your online registrations increase. You can add electronic tax receipting, electronic ticketing and data downloads. Click here to see an example.
4. CharityPledge - Online event management system for fundraising events. Do you run special event fundraisers like walks, runs, stairclimbs, etc., or any other event participants need to raise pledges or donations from their friends? CharityPledge will allow this to happen effectively and efficiently online. Participants will be able to register for the event, then send their friends, family members, or co-workers an automated email message describing the event. The message will provide a dedicated link to a secure donation form where their donations/pledges will be accepted and tracked for that specific participant. Participants and event organizers will be able to log in to see who has supported their participation thus far. Add-ons can include electronic tax receipting and data downloads. This system will completely automate your fundraising event and allow you to allocate valuable resources elsewhere. Click here to see an example.
5. Charity eCards: Increase website traffic and donations through your current donors. Helpforcharities' eCard solution will have your current donors or supporters encourage their friends to visit your site and encourage them to donate. This product can work on it's own or in combination with your donation form. Customizable to allow anyone to send an eCard or only those who have made a current donation. Click here to see a example
6. Charity Batch Processing: Once you have your donors signing up for monthly donations online you can automate the entire process. Our web-based recurring batch processing product will allow you to set up your donors on a monthly credit card donation program that is flexible and easy to use. Donations can be made on any day of the month (also quarterly, bi-annual, etc) based on you or your donor's preference. All transactions run automatically and do not need to be started by your staff. Full transaction reporting is provided.
7. Call Center Software: Windows or browser based interface for the charity or not-for-profit that is involved in live operator assisted donations/pledges or phone orders. This software will authorize, process and manage credit card transactions online. The operator simply enters the credit card information into an online form. Immediately after performing the transaction the operator receives an approval or decline response. If the card is declined, the agent can ask for another card and still complete a sale. This software comes with a data download reports feature.
8. Charity V Terminals: Are you tired of taking telephone donations and/or orders, writing them down and then processing the transactions at a later date on your physical POS terminal. Helpforcharities' virtual terminal will allow you to process that donation or order while you are on the phone with the donor. It can even send a thank you letter and e-receipt to the donor if they provide you with a valid email address. You can even eliminate the physical POS terminal you are currently using and realize some instant savings.
9. SPIstore - Online Shopping Cart: Do you sell fundraising products, publications or documents? Or are you thinking of selling these items? Many organizations have found that selling fundraising items to be quite successful. Eliminate added administration costs by selling online. Do you sell publications or documents to your donors or members? SPIstore Electronic Document Download feature eliminates the need to ship or carry an inventory. SPIstore allows you to control all administration via a back office interface - add/edit products, change prices/shipping, etc. Click here to see an example
10. CharityEmail Distribution Programs: This is an automated email list serve program which allows easy management of "opt-in" email lists. Email addresses are appended to the list automatically when someone fills in a form (typically a "yes I want to receive newsletters" email box) on your site. The "opt-out" is handled by the usual footer at the bottom of all emails, stating "You did not receive this in error you requested the... and in order to be removed from the list, click here..." For the admin portion you would send your message/newsletter to the list and the program will take care of the delivery. We regret we cannot accept any old or existing mailing lists, only new mailing lists.
11. Charity Database Applications: Our experienced programmers can create custom databases and reporting for your entire donor or membership management needs
12. Charity eDRM: Do you need an automated donation relationship management tool? Our software can be easily customized to meet your needs.
13. Donor Management System:The Donor Management System provides charities and not-for-profits with the ongoing ability to manage their flow of online donations. This system streamlines the donor support functions including updating donor information, ease of issuing and management of tax receipts as well as statistical reporting.
    • Some of the functionality includes: Search donation records for a particular donation or donor by a variety of parameters
    • Correct and update data before generating replacement tax receipts
    • Generate replacement tax receipts that can be printed and mailed
    • Handle donor, donation and tax receipt queries quickly and efficiently
    • View general donation statistics
    • Data download functionality for spreadsheet creation or upload to another database application
    • Allow the donor to update personal information through access to a personal donor area
    • Allow the donor to add/edit information for recurring donations - amounts, recurring date and credit card information
14. Donation Form Management System:The Donation Form Management System allows charities and not-for-profits to customize/create online donation forms without compromising online security. This particular system fits a charity or not-for-profit that wants in-house ability to modify donation form components on an ongoing basis.
    • Some of the functionality includes: Adding/deleting/ordering campaign designations
    • Changing the look and feel of the forms by adding new html and artwork
    • Add/ change various text areas on the donation form
    • Change gift array amounts
    • Add new donation forms for specific campaigns
    • Change thank you letter text
15. Gift Catalogue System: The Gift Catalogue System provides donors with the ability to control how they direct their donations. This system allows the donor to select an item from an online catalogue and designate that item as a gift for a recipient. For example, a donor can select a goat, a chicken or some medical supplies. These gifts are then purchased for a fixed price per gift.
    
    The donor can designate these items as gifts for friends, family or co-workers. The recipient would receive a card celebrating the donation as a gift in-lieu of the usual material gifts typically given for special occasions. Some of the functionality includes:
    • Catalogue of gifts
    • More information on each gift and how your purchase of the gift helps
    • Send a card: traditional card or ecard
    • Purchase multiple gifts at one time
    With a little imagination the system is applicable to almost every charity and not-for-profit. For an example click here

Helpforcharities.com has a variety of other services that can add value to your online fundraising plan.

1. INTERAC^® Online - accept debit cards online
2. Verified by Visa and MasterCard SecureCode
3. Fraud Protection - reduce fraud
4. Website Hosting - secure webhosting that is PCI compliant
5. Website Design and Creation: We have an experienced design team that can help you set up a professional looking site
6. Website Consultation: We can help you plan for a goal-achieving website
7. Online Training, Education and Consultation - individual or group. Shopping cart, online payment processing, online batch processing
8. Domain Registration and Set Up
9. Digital Certificate Set Up: For those who wish their donors to stay on the same URL when donating.
10. Technical Support
11. Ongoing Website Changes and Maintenance Program
12. Compliance Certificates under PCI standards
13. Server and Network Security Management Services - We can provide you with the guidance required to setup a cost effective secure network infrastructure based on the PCI (payment card industry) Data Security Standard requirements. This includes
• Consulting
• Training Seminars
• Policies and Procedure Documents
• Secure Server Setup
• Secure Server Management
• Secure Network Infrastructure Setup, Deployment and Management
• Remediation Services
14. Internet Marketing Programs - for those that need some help getting their online marketing started
• Search Engine Optimization
• Directory linking package - manual linking to the top search engines and directories
• Ongoing linking to search engines and directories
• Copywriting - improve the copy on your website to help with your online fundraising and search engine visibility
15. Additional Options
• Web Forum Set Up - for private communications within or outside of your organization
• Database design
• Auto Responders
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