The new Andar Standard-M optional module, to be released in early August, allows you to specify fundraising and processing fees for the processing organization, fundraising fees for the fundraising organization, as well as processing fees for the check-off organization. Of course, specific companies, agencies, or donors may have overriding contracts assigning different fees. Andar's Standard-M module will handle all of this when processing gifts and producing payments to agencies. In accordance with Standard-M, the processing organization can deduct all fees up front, acknowledge and thank donors, and issue tax receipts. The fundraising and check-off organization can, with the module, upload the data and process it without duplicating the fees or communications with the donors.

The additional payout process that the processing United Ways can use to pay the fees collected to the fundraising and check-off organizations will be released January/2007.

Because transactions will now include the processing, fundraising, and check-off United Way account numbers, and lockbox will import this information, the Standard-M module will allow the local United Way great flexibility in handling transactions processed out of area but raised or distributed locally.

Need examples of data quality documents? Join the Andar Yahoo Group and review the posted files.

Peter F. Drucker