Feature requests for Soft Credit Matching Gifts Pledges

Soft credit

Soft credit is who gets the credit for having gotten this donation. Every contribution should be able to have soft credit assigned with the possibility of dividing credit among two or more people. This would usually be done by taking the specific dollar amount and splitting it up, but it means there needs to be somethiing like relationship data for each contribution.

Matching Gifts

This is tricky because there are both contact and contribution dimensions.
Some contacts have matching gifts and this may be time limited, as they may change jobs or affiliations (not all matching gifts come from jobs, sometimes family foundations match for example) So to start that is a relationship, which can be added to the contact record and should probably be one of the preset relationships.
Being in a matching gift program does not mean all contributions will be matched. Usually it is just tax deductible gifts and even there sometimes it is only for a straight donation, not the tax deductible portions of a benefit ticket etc.

Credit for the matching gift goes to the matcher.As with soft credits, Somehow, the two contribution records (not just the contact records) need to be linked,
The development office needs to check to make sure that all eligible gifts from a donor in a matching program actually are matched. (So there needs to be a check box for if a match has been received)

Pledges

A pledge is a promise of a future donation. THey are often divided over several years. They are different than a repeating donation, because they are accounted for in a different way in audits and reports. So, when someone makes a pledge we need to be able to enter the total pledge, a pledge schedule (how much is pledged for which dates), to be able to record when payments are madeand to be able to easily figure out who to send reminders to at specific points and who is behind on meeting their pledges.

These three are really core functions for npo fundraising even for relatively small nonprofits.