Two New Articles: Online Payment Processing and Data Integration

Okay, I've been a bad blogger. I admit it. I've been spending way too much time moving into our new house (more on that soon), but in the meantime, we've put up two new articles that I'm really proud of....

A Few Good Online Payment Multitaskers breaks down the world of payment processing options for those who want to accept not just donations, or not just event or item or membership payments, but several of those things. It walks through some of the same tools we looked at in our Donation Report, but also goes into much more details about "roll-your-own" options involving integrating your own payment gateway.

And we have An Introduction to Integrating Constituent Data: Three Basic Approaches. This is a walkthrough of the first decision you need to make when looking to integrate data - do you want to integrate by hand via manual imports and exports? Or buy an integrated package? Or use an automated connector to programmatically integrate? There's a number of tradeoffs between these options, and we lay them out to help you decide.

And I promise, I'm now back on the blogging bandwagon, and am in fact thinking through some interesting new directions for this blog. Stay tuned!