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For most of us in the non-profit community, we often feel the pain of trying to fit e-commerce engines to do things that should be simple, like donation collection.  We're interested in providing resources to the community that will give users choice when trying to connect their Joomla sites to donation tools.

If you know of any integration efforts between online donation processing and Joomla CMS, please post them here.

Best,
Ryan

There is of course the Paypal Module that was released for Mambo, this worked well as a donation module.

Hi hotnuts21,

You're absolutely right about the PayPal module.  I think it would be great if there were other modules components that people are using to integrate in more NPO-centric fundraising tools, like Raiser's Edge, eTapestra, Kintera, etc, that we could also pull together as well.  We've developed a free toolset for groups using the Democracy in Action system, which can be found at http://www.picnet.net/soapbox_toolset.html (free download, OSS).

Best,
Ryan

Paypal is, for better or worse, does not give a very professional image to an NPO. I would like very much to be able to use IATS through mambo (mambo-phpshop) .  That or some other specialist in NPO processing.


I have started experimenting with civicrm, and it or something like it is really essential for NPOs. THe big ones can get Convivo, Kintera or eTapestry, but they are out of the league of many smaller nonprofits (even though etap is free for orgs with under 500 records, the cost of the extras adds up.

Salesforce has an excellent program which entitles qualifying 501(C)(3)s to 10 enterprise edition seats. I think they are up to around 400 organizations. Although the lanquage for all of their tools is business speak and difficult to translate into fundraising terminology, the tools themselves are extremely powerful. Anything to make information posted on our website effortlessly import to Salesforce would be fantastic.

Louigi,

My firm is currently in the process of developing a Salesforce integration toolset for Joomla, and hope to have it released within the next few months.  We'll keep everyone posted, but we're hoping to have it GPL'd.

-Ryan

louigi wrote:Salesforce has an excellent program which entitles qualifying 501(C)(3)s to 10 enterprise edition seats. I think they are up to around 400 organizations. Although the lanquage for all of their tools is business speak and difficult to translate into fundraising terminology, the tools themselves are extremely powerful. Anything to make information posted on our website effortlessly import to Salesforce would be fantastic.

louigi wrote:Salesforce has an excellent program which entitles qualifying 501(C)(3)s to 10 enterprise edition seats. I think they are up to around 400 organizations. Although the language for all of their tools is business speak and difficult to translate into fundraising terminology, the tools themselves are extremely powerful. Anything to make information posted on our website effortlessly import to Salesforce would be fantastic.

If you are going to go through the hassle of translating sales jargon to fundraising jargon, SugarCRM would give you something you could release afterwards. (and if you are making substantial contributions SugarCRM will tend to give you access to the full, not yet GPL version.)

I suspect you would be overrun with help if you posted a non-profit fork of SugarCRM (even if you abandoned it.)