I was disappointed to see that the financial upgrades in version 4.0 continues to lump income for an individual member into a single bucket with no breakout as to source. 

Specifically, membership fees and extra charge items purchased during membership signup/renewal are reported as a single lump sum.  In my case I have membership levels at $20 and at $25 but I also have an option for members to have their newsletter delivered by surface mail for and extra $5.  I may have $500 in membership fees at the end of the month but no idea how to divide up the revenue between membership and newsletters.

Granted, we can export the membership files and do the whole thing manually but we could do that before version 4.0.

 Also, as I understand it, the same is true for Events.  Extra items purchased during event registration are lumped in with registration income and we have to go in at a detail record level and break out these charges manually. 

The reality is that Excel is still the best reporting tool. 

Gordon,

Sorry, we did not have this on the wishlist so we simply did not  think about it. Now that we have this here, I would appreciate comments from others to help us prioritize this.

I think a possible solution is to separate the base registration fee/membership level fee from all  other charges in the Income report.

I would also like further breakdown as to the source of the revenue --- broken down by the source of the revenue.  It makes it easier for a trip leader if all the money order/checks that they have collected are totaled clearly in one column, keep credits applied separately, and on line revenue (credit card payments) a separate total.

I think the old payment report separated on line revenue from manual payment revenue, and I don't see that in the new one.  That will be missed.  Now that we can also issue credits to invoices, that should be a separate entry too.

I agree. Being able to code costs on the back-end, or see a more detailed breakdown, will be extremely helpful when it comes time to record revenues in an accounting program. Otherwise you are required to manually allocate rec'd revenues to multiple revenue accounts.

I would go a step further and request the ability to code a single fee to multiple categories. For instance, I work with a client who receives annual member fees that are allocated to three separate accounts: $150 - $75 to member dues, $70 to regional fees (this is paid to the regional offices bi-annually) and $5 for printing fees. 

The greater the ability to pull detailed financial reports, the greater the ability to streamline and increase efficiencies, the greater my ability to make my clients happy :-)

 Jennifer Walker

We certainly agree that the accounting for extra fees is woefully inadequate.  The lump payment is stored and retrievable but non of the details are available either in excel, quickbooks or via reporting.  We need to be able to distinguish these extra fees from dues.

Kim Pollock