SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

September 16, 2009
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

ROI Solutions Releases Donate Now!

Create & customize web pages directly in Revolution Online

ROI Solutions announces the release of Donate Now! This feature allows users to create custom web pages directly in Revolution Online, the enterprise constituent database management system. Donate Now! provides the ability for organizations to collect and process constituent donations and other information directly from visitors to their own website, with results coming directly into their own database in real-time without the need for a special sync process or exports from another system.

An organization’s web presence – including branding and look and feel – is a critical part of its strategy and its organizational identity. “Organizations spend a lot of time and effort to create a specific design, and need that design to be applied across the entire spectrum of their interaction with constituents – especially on a component as important as a constituent donation page” said Gina VanderLoop, CEO of ROI Solutions. “The donation pages must fit seamlessly into the rest of the website. That was our paramount consideration in developing Revolution Online Donate Now! – to allow the pages to fit perfectly with the ‘look and feel’ of an organization’s existing site. At the same time, constituents are becoming increasingly sophisticated web consumers. They need to know that their personal data entered is being handled securely”, VanderLoop continued.

ROI Solutions was one of the first enterprise database software providers to offer a full featured “Open API” in 2007 and that allowed clients to connect forms on their websites directly to Revolution Online with the data coming directly into their own membership/donor database. “We saw a great need to expand our offering for organizations that were often times hiring outside consultants or other vendors to manage donation sites, and that was costing them a lot of money and lost time in getting those transactions and donor information back into their own database”, said VanderLoop.

ROI Solutions will offer its Donate Now! site at no charge to its clients.

Aside from no cost to its clients, which is significant, there are other great benefits. The ROI Donate Now! site administration is easily accessible via the User Interface directly in Revolution Online allowing users the ability to create and customize an unlimited number of pages. This allows ROI clients the ability to manage their own sites directly without needing to build and support the difficult and sometimes expensive infrastructure associated with PCI/DSS compliance. This also allows data to come directly into your database real-time without the need for special uploads or sync processes with another outside system. All of your data is together in one place where it should be.

ROI Solutions supplies the necessary high-strength SSL encryption and compliance certification that are important to providing a safe and secure online environment for constituents. In addition to industry-standard PCI-DSS compliant web security ROI’s multiple web servers support high availability through round-robin dispatching with dynamic failover.

Whether you want to collect one-time donations, enable donors to sign up for multi-part contributions, event sign ups, or even manage an ongoing sustainer program, Revolution Online Donate Now! will do it all for you.

Please contact your Technical Account Manager for a demonstration and a real sample page set up for your own organization’s site.

More Open API Connections

In addition to the already existing Open API’s* that have been resident in Revolution Online since last year (2008), we have now enabled two-way synchronization with Democracy in Action.  This has gone into production last week and it enables ROI Customers that are using the DIA interface the ability to synchronize records between the two systems.  This is done online and Real-Time and does not require an export/import between the two systems. [Note: the ROI Solutions/Convio WebServices platform was launched earlier this year].

* Open APIs are used by many of our clients to connect their ROI Revolution database to their organizational website, thus having information and updates as well as donation informatio coming directly into their databases real-time and online.

Features Update – March 2008

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens…

..are just a few of my favorite things. You can now create and save your Favorite Reports.

When you are looking at any report, simply click the “add to favorites” button.

It will be added to the top of your reports list, with the name you gave it, — prefilled-in with any report parameters you’ve chosen. When the dog bites, when the bee stings, when you are feeling sad….just remember your favorite reports….

Direct Connect API

There’s been a lot of chatter on the Internet about API’s…and you’ll be hearing more from us next month on one that has to do with that whole web syncing issue. For now, we introduce our Direct Connect API to our pals over at Wealth Engine. For those ROI clients that use Wealth Engine, ROI now offers a direct connection to Wealth Engine.

Once in a record, click on the Wealth Engine menu option. It will connect to Wealth Engine directly and display the screening data directly inside your ROI database.

In addition, you can click on the Wealth Engine Logo in the right hand side and go directly into the record within the Wealth Engine software. (For more information on Wealth Engine and their donor screening services – visit them at www.wealthengine.com).

Disclaimer: ROI is Vendor Neutral. If you have a product you’d like us to try and connect to like this, let us know — we’re always up for a good challenge!

Dirty Data

No one likes dirty data and with spring just around the corner — we thought we’d highlight our “Clean-up” section just in time for Spring Cleaning!

Go to the Tools Tab. There you will find several “Clean-up” listings. When you click on them, the menu will expand and give you a plethora of listings.

Once you select an option, you can view the results online and link to them for correction; and your list is customizable and exportable.

Did You Know? – ROIFlix

If the saying “a picture is worth a thousand words” is true, well then heck…a video is worth — well, a lot. In the Online User Help section of the database, go to the “Show Me” section in the Help Contents. There, you will see a plethora of online video tutorials (more are being added every day!). Sit back, relax and enjoy the show.