Re: Help for a Non Profit

Why would a company that had a product doing all that and three hundred users want to show you their financials just to get a 301st customer?

<maitreyaproject_at_my-deja.com> wrote in message news:93p1s9$1a9$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com...
> We are searching for a ready made top end database application. Any
> advise would be appreciated.
>
> We are a non profit organisation.
>
> We require a database to track our supporters and donors, to track
> their donations and pledges, to track specific fundraising schemes and
> events.
>
> We require a main database at our main admin office, as well as remote
> databases at the other offices (around 6 of these). These must be able
> to synchronise data easily, with a regular 33.6 phone line, as well as
> being able to do this from a laptop on the road. We wish to do this at
> a global and local level.
>
> We also require confidence in the company supplying the database, and
> their ability to give long term support. Web enabled versions appear to
> cumbersome for our requirements, unless bulk data can be entered
> offline and uploaded.
>
> Some questions that will influence our purchase of a database.
>
> we are looking for...
>
> 1: a product from a stable company that has been in business for at
> least 10 years.
>
> 2. The product should have been under development for at least 3 to 5
> years.
>
> 3. The product should have continuous development support with at least
> 10 people working on it.
>
> 4. The company must be prepared to show their financials and show
> reason for us to be confident that they will remain and intend to
> remain in business stably at least for 5 to 6 years.
>
> 5. The product should have a user base worldwide.
>
> 6. The product should have a user base of at least 200 to 300 users.
>
> 7. The product must function as a donor data base.
>
> 8. It must function as a contact manager
>
> 9. It must function as a mail merge facility.
>
> 10.The product must be global in terms of its address format, paper and
> stationary sizes.
>
> 11. The product must work with multi currencies, and must allow for
> currency fluctuations within the multi currencies.
>
> 12. The product must of course permit flagging of different attributes
> for different donors
>
> 13. The product must track pledges with regular payments as well as one
> off donations.
>
> 14. The product must enable us to track many separate fundraising
> schemes that are global schemes and monitor progress of global schemes,
> globally as well as locally.
>
> 15. The product should permit both local and global budgeting and
> income projection from schemes.
>
> 16. The product must allow custom reports to be developed locally and
> globally.
>
> 17. The product must support multi currencies, with conversion facility
> to USD
>
> 18. The product must be user friendly, it must be intuitive.
>
>
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Received on Sat Jan 13 2001 - 20:16:34 CST