Fundraising Software Glossary: Key Terms & Concepts
List of Fundraising Software features
Bank Reconciliation
A bank reconciliation statement reconciles an entity's bank account with its financial records. The statement lists all deposits, withdrawals, and other transactions in a bank account over...read more
Billing and Invoicing
An invoice and a bill are documents that convey the same information about the amount owing for the sale of goods or services. Still, a company uses an invoice to collect money from its cu...read more
Tax Management
A tax is a governmental mandatory financial charge or levy imposed on a taxpayer to fund certain public expenses. The taxation system is critical for a country's economy since money is req...read more
Direct Deposit
The electronic deposit of funds into a bank account instead of a physical paper check is referred to as a direct deposit. It necessitates the usage of an electronic network that enables ba...read more
Self Service Portal
A self-service portal is a website or app that enables workers (or external clients for externally visible support providers) to help themselves when they require assistance, information, ...read more
Contact Management
Contact management refers to keeping, organizing, and managing information about your customers, prospects, and sales leads. In its most basic form, an address book or an Excel or Google s...read more
Customer Support
Customer support is a term used to describe services that assist customers in making the most cost-effective and proper usage of a product. From product planning to installation, training,...read more
List Management
Publishing data cards and boosting sales through promotional efforts are part of list management. Processing orders, organizing approvals with the list owner, and coordinating fulfillment ...read more
Inventory Management
The process of procuring, maintaining, utilizing, and distributing a company's inventory is referred to as inventory management. This comprises the storage and processing of raw materials,...read more
Payment Processing
Payment Processing is defined as providing a Person with the ability to charge or debit accounts using any payment mechanism, including but not limited to Remotely Created Payment Orders, ...read more
Recurring (Subscription Billing)
When a subscription business charges a customer's credit card for items or services on a regular billing schedule, this is known as recurring billing. Subscription services typically charg...read more
CRM
Customer relationship management (CRM) is a tool that allows to keep track of all of the company's relationships and interactions with its customers and prospects. Its objective is straigh...read more
Scheduling
Scheduling is the job or activity of determining when specific tasks will be completed. Block scheduling, often known as blocking, is a method of academic scheduling in the American K-12 s...read more
Financial Management
Financial management is a process of planning, organizing, regulating, and monitoring financial resources to meet the goals and objectives. It is ideal for controlling an organization's ec...read more
Content Management
Material management is the end-to-end acquiring, designing, processing, and distributing of content. It is a set of methods and technologies that make it easier to collect, handle, and tra...read more
About the reviewer
Rajat Gupta is the founder of Spotsaas. Over the past two years, he has reviewed 2,000+ tools across CRM, HR, AI, and finance — applying hands-on product research and a background in commerce and the CFA program to evaluate software through a business and ROI lens. His goal: help teams make software decisions they won't regret.
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