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  Top 8 of 2008 A new year has arrived and The Spotlight is now back in full swing. I wanted to start off right, with a round-up of the most popular posts of 2008. Go ahead and make a 2009 resolution to implement one of these ideas or features. PEO Donation Round-Up... 01-06-2009 5:14 PM by Nicholai Burton to The Spotlight Filed under: PEO, PE, Patron Edge, Patron Edge Online

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  Payroll Post Notes: Print and eFile W-2s Ok you're in the home stretch. You've made your corrections, reconciled your 941s, and verified all employee information. All that's left is to print and eFile your W-2s. In Payroll 7, you print and eFile your W-2s through Aatrix. Remember... 01-06-2009 2:06 PM by Jennifer Maroney to The Ledger Filed under: Payroll, Payroll Post Notes, End-of-year, W-2

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  The Ledger Lowdown: List Vendors Paid More Than a Specific Amount Do you ever wonder how many vendors were paid more than X dollars over a specific date range or perhaps you need this information for your board of directors? Whatever the need, you can easily get this information by creating a query. Here's how:... 01-06-2009 6:00 AM by Jennifer Maroney to The Ledger Filed under: Accounts Payable, The Ledger Lowdown, Vendors

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  Back to Reality Nov 26 th was my last post. Ouch. I confess! My brain took a holiday break from Thanksgiving to New Year's. I still had to work but I suppose I wasn't multi-tasking with the same style I'm used to. So has anything new happened in social media... 01-05-2009 12:21 PM by Lindsey Robbins to Chatterbox Filed under: Chatterbox

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  The Ledger Lowdown: Top Questions for December Each month we keep track of the top questions you ask. This FAQs list includes GL, AP, AR, FA, and general FE or non-product specific questions. To see the FAQs broken out by individual module, review The Financial Edge FAQs on our website. Here is the... 01-05-2009 11:43 AM by Jennifer Maroney to The Ledger Filed under: Accounts Payable, The Ledger Lowdown, General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Fixed Assets, FE-RE Integration

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  2008 Online Giving Trends It's only been a few days since the end of 2008, but I wanted to share some very early online giving trends from Blackbaud clients. This information comes from approximately 2,000 nonprofit organizations using Blackbaud's Internet solutions. Steady... 01-05-2009 9:01 AM by Steve MacLaughlin to Connections Filed under: fundraising trends, nptech, online giving

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  The Ledger Lowdown: Define a Default Fiscal Year When you view the Activity tab of an account, grant or project record, do you have to select the fiscal year each time? Save yourself a step by defining a default fiscal year. Here's how: Select Tools, Options from the menu bar. Select the Records... 01-05-2009 7:30 AM by Jennifer Maroney to The Ledger Filed under: Grants, The Ledger Lowdown, General Ledger, Accounts, Records, Time saver, User preferences, Projects

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  A Brief History of eReceipts The earliest receipt was developed by our Neandrathal ancestors , who used large, heavy rocks to acknowledge the exchange of goods or services. This led to a great deal of confusion, as these same rocks were also used as currency, and all available goods... 01-02-2009 5:26 PM by Douglas Clinton to The User's Edge Filed under: mail merge, eReceipts

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  Getting Your (Marketing) Ducks in a Row in 2009 My colleague, Nicholai Burton, posted a terrific blog entry last month about ways for cultural organizations to thrive in a down economy. While he spoke specifically on ways to engage patrons, his ideas can be relevant to all types of nonprofit organizations... 01-02-2009 5:22 PM by Allison Van Diest to NetWits

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  Payroll Post Notes: Create Tax Tables When you install the end-of-year patch, the federal and state tax table files are updated automatically based on changes submitted to Blackbaud before November 30. Before you calculate payroll for 2009, you must create updated tax tables. When you create... 01-02-2009 7:01 AM by Jennifer Maroney to The Ledger Filed under: Payroll, Payroll Post Notes, End-of-year, tax tables

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  Posting Errors? Check Your Post Dates If your fiscal year or period has ended, you may suddenly start receiving errors such as Period Closed or Period Not Found when posting to General Ledger. These errors happen when transactions post to a hard-closed, soft-closed, or an undefined fiscal... 01-01-2009 7:28 AM by Jennifer Maroney to The Ledger Filed under: Financial Edge, Accounts Payable, Payroll, The Ledger Lowdown, Payroll Post Notes, Student Billing State-of-Mind, General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Student Billing, Posting, Errors, Posting errors

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  Bring On The New Year The end of the year is a time of reflection and recapitulation. The Raiser's Edge can help you recognize the past year's top donors, analyze giving, and plan for a better year ahead. Query is a fast and easy way to group donors you would like... 12-31-2008 4:05 PM by Douglas Clinton to The User's Edge

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  New Year's Resolutions We all have a list of things we meant to do last year, but didn't because we were too busy or simply forgot. Start this year off right by making a resolution to take care of your database and utilize Support resources. Here are some ideas for your... 12-31-2008 11:14 AM by Jennifer Maroney to The Ledger Filed under: Accounts Payable, Payroll, The Ledger Lowdown,