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Explore the pros, cons, and misconceptions of church app development. Learn how to build a transformative app for your congregation with Paperless Transactions.

Discover why paper checks endure in an age of digital transactions and how they remain vital for donations and larger payments.

As cashless transactions increasingly become the norm, businesses, nonprofits, and even churches are forced to contend with payment processing rates. Credit card companies or payment processors...

Paperless Transaction is celebrating 25 years in business this year, and we’ve decided to give away our secret recipe for success. It's carried us through storms both large and small, including...

In the ever-expanding digital world, things can get pretty overwhelming. There’s a website to keep in tip top shape, an email campaign that should be utilized to the best audience, social media...

Is your organization too dependent on end of year giving or a couple of major donor gifts? As we grind through January and into February and inch towards spring here soon, many organizations are...

Your non-profit organization is probably already familiar with pledge programs. The idea is a simple one: promote your organization’s signature cause and request that supporters fulfill financial...

In the last installment of our series we highlighted a few of the necessary steps involved in initiating a recurring gift program. In this installment, we’ll consider strategies to gain recurring...

In the last entry we considered the benefits of a recurring gift program. Unlike pledge drives, recurring giving can provide your supporters greater convenience while achieving sustainable and...

While many new communication channels have emerged in the past twenty-five years with the rapid rise of the internet, email, and mobile phones as well as most recently social-media, the tried but...

Can you believe we are almost 1/12th of the way through 2021 already? Is your organization still catching your breath from the hectic end of year fundraising and racing to get your tax letters out...

It goes without saying, the Year 2020 will go down in history as one of the most difficult years in recent history. With a global pandemic that has affected so many lives around the world, humanity...

It’s the most wonderful time of the year! The last quarter of the year can be exciting for some, with the back-to-back holidays, but hectic for others. Even as you read this week’s blog, you may...

Even though the motivations behind them may be different, Black Friday and Giving Tuesday are & should be more alike than they are different in terms in terms of marketing. Both "holidays" are...

Missions based organizations work all over the world each and every day to impact the world that we live in. They are called "missions" organizations as they have a directive for a singular...

Gone are the days of scattershot marketing and its (largely flawed) strategy of targeting a mass audience with the hope it will reach a percentage of those people who might actually engage. Instead...

For any nonprofit, the last few months of the year are incredibly impactful. The holiday season is filled with events specifically created to help potential donors focus on the causes they care...

Are you forecasting the future of your organization based on a marketing hunch? While gut feelings and assumptions shouldn’t necessarily be thrown out with the bath water, there’s a better way to...

While Charities and Nonprofits do so much good in our world today (and now more than ever use the web to empower their mission and garner support), there's a dark side of the web that aims to...

Events are a great way to engage with your organization’s constituents and provide a place for them to interact with each other. If your organization wants to start planning and hosting events, you...

Your nonprofit already works hard to collect donations and channel that money into the mission you have set out to serve. What a nonprofit should not have to do is work hard to keep your online...

During these unprecedented times of imposed home quarantine to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 virus, many charities and churches are cancelling their events and (for many churches especially)...

We live in a world where even the smallest organization needs to have a solid web presence, whether the goal is to find success in the marketplace or engage members to your cause. There are a lot...

Nonprofit Reporting: Why do your bank account, Donor CRM and accounting software all have discrepancies in reporting?One of life’s great mysteries is trying to decipher your merchant services...

Today, more than ever, nonprofits and charities are having to work harder and harder to reach new donors, manage those donors, and retain those donors long-term.According to Inside Philanthropy,...

As 2019 draws to a close, we wanted to thank our clients for trusting us this year with your donations. We know you are working overtime at the busiest time of year to raise critical funds for...

For any nonprofit, the last few months of the year are huge. Not only do we see a surge in generous donations around this time, but there are also days and events specifically created to help...

In a world as distracted and disconnected as the one we’re in, we all need to feel like we’re a part of a community. Even more so in the church, it’s vitally important that church members feel like...

Below is a great story from Brad Novosad, District Chi-Alpha Director in Nebraska and SALT Director for the Southern Great Plains about how Paperless's Text2Give platform has helped them increase...

The following is a featured post from Jason Bowman, Strategist & Principal Partner at ArtSpeak Creative Your brand is more than your logo, colors, fonts, and taglines. Your brand is what other...

Do you feel like you are stuck in a rut in raising money for your cause? Are you looking for inspiration or new ideas to reach more donors and boost contributions? Check out these seven unique...

The following is a featured post from Alex Birkett, Growth Marketing Manager at Hubspot. Every organization, be it an e-commerce store selling novelty t-shirts or a nonprofit helping to solve...

More than ever, churches are exploring what it means to function as a healthy, multifaceted organization where staff members oversee various aspects of the ministry---there are connection pastors,...

The end of the year is a time when many donors give to nonprofits and churches. During the holidays, many people are feeling generous and want to give back. About one third of annual giving occurs...

We’re excited to announce that we’ve recently been named a fundraising partner with PayPal in order to better serve the charitable giving industry. This means that whether your donors want to make...

Some of you will remember the days when you’d take your family to a nice restaurant, have a lovely meal, and then dig deep into your pocket or purse for something called a “checkbook”---you’d then...

What happens when one of your recurring donors gets a new credit card? Are you at risk of losing that recurring donation because the transaction is declined? Declined transactions can occur for many..

The following is a featured post from Brad Novosad, District Chi Alpha director in Nebraska and SALT director for the southern Great Plains Area. Shortly after I gave my life to Christ in September...

The main goal of an online donation page should be to convert visitors into donors. Sometimes the way a donation page is built can do the opposite and actually turn away potential donors. Here are..

The following is a featured post from Kevin Jones, Director of Sales & Marketing at Portable Church.Stewardship – a well-known, common word in the church – refers to how we choose to spend our...

A report from Informate Mobile Intelligence revealed that Americans are spending an average of 4.7 hours a day on their smartphones. Consumers spend most of that time on their smartphones using...

A church’s longevity and success hinges on the community. A strong, tight-knit community will support one another and strengthen the bonds that make church experiences so important for many...

At Paperless Transactions, we are proud to serve non-profits and churches. Over the last 20 years, we have continually refined our offerings in order to to help organizations fulfill their missions...

Non-profit companies often operate differently than profit-driven companies, but despite the differences, there are many marketing strategies that are universally lucrative.Non-profit organizations...

Paperless Transactions turns 20 years old this year! Founded in 1998, Paperless provides payment processing, donor management tools, and event and giving solutions to both churches and non-profits....

What’s the recipe to a successful event and the secret concoctions to boosting awareness and raising more money? Here are four overlooked ingredients that will bring your non-profit events expanded...

Running an event is not an easy task. There are many details to juggle in the planning and execution of an event and it can all be overwhelming. Here are three tips to help you run a successful...

Online resources are 20% more useful than direct mail when it comes to influencing donors. That means if you’re hosting a fundraising event for your non-profit, using online event registration...

Most non-profit organizations already have a Facebook page and have built up an audience of Facebook followers. Even if you don’t have a large following on Facebook, most of your current and...

Most organizations understand the basics of fundraising, but only the exceptional are unable to unlock thousands more in potential donations. And while you probably host events in order to raise...

It can be discouraging to realize that your donors want to continue to give to your cause, but have found it difficult to do so-they give once and have every intention of giving again, but it slips...

Running an event is not an easy task. There are many details to juggle in the planning and execution of an event and it can all be very overwhelming. We are going to show you in this blog post how...

Studies show that the most successful organizations focus their fundraising efforts on recurring giving and recurring donations bring in a steady source of funding. Here are three tips to turning...

Forms can be used in many ways - to capture information, gather feedback, accept donations, sell products, and register for events. In what ways does your organization need to use forms? Which form...

In today’s world, text messaging is more popular than traditional phone calls and emails. In fact, text messages have a 94% open rate, while only 20% of emails are opened, making a text almost 5...

Happy Joe’s Pizza & Ice Cream Parlor is an American pizza parlor chain based in Bettendorf, Iowa. The restaurant chain was founded by “Happy Joe” Whitty and currently has 65 restaurants throughout...

Q&A with Justin Guinn, Market researcher at Software AdviceHow can technology alleviate small business/nonprofit pain points related to registration?Perhaps the simplest and greatest aspect of...

Choosing a Church Giving Software should be pretty easy, right? You know you need a system that will make giving easy for your church members and visitors, lets you easily communicate to your church..

Non-profits need unique fundraising solutions to meet the demands of digital fundraising in today's world. With so many causes and charities, donors are sought after more than ever and having...

Every nonprofit has a contact list. However, what do those contacts count for if they are seldom if ever contacted or if those contacts aren’t cultivated in the grand scheme of things? Contacts are...