Pledged Donations

Organisations can receive a promise to make a donation at a later date often referred to as a pledge. Pledged donations are recorded in Vega against individual contacts and remain open until they are either fulfilled or declined. When a new pledged donation is entered, Vega will find any open pledges before recording the transaction.

Add New Pledged Donation

• Go to 'Contacts' section and click 'Add Payment'
• Select a 'Payment Type' of ‘Pledge’ (note that the payment type is now also set to ‘Pledge’)
• Enter the pledged amount
• Complete relevant transaction fields required and click 'Save'
• Pledged donations appear in a separate box from standard donations under the ‘Payments and Recurring’ tab

Fulfil Existing Pledged Donation

• Go to 'Contacts' section and click 'Add Payment'
• Select the Pledge you are fulfilling from the displayed table of Open Pledges
• Select the 'Pay Type' of the transaction you are processing (in full or part-payment)
• Complete relevant transaction fields required and click 'Save'
• You will now see 'Payment Successful' for this donation in the Pledge box under the 'Payments and Recurring' tab

Reporting

Vega has the following preset queries for pledges:

• Pledges – All
• Pledges – Declined
• Pledges – Open
• Pledges - Successful

There is also a Pledge Payments Report in the 'Reports' section showing pledge summary and details for specific periods.