Donations, funds, and statements

Donations is the gift ledger. Admin and finance can view, add, edit, and void gifts. Other staff do not see gift amounts, history, or statement contents unless you grant donations permissions.

Funds live in Settings → Funds. Tithe is always separate: the tithe total is gifts whose fund is named Tithe. Offering is every other fund (offering, missions, special speaker, and so on). Tithe is never rolled into offering on reports.

The church's giving week runs Thursday through Wednesday.

You can enter cash and checks by hand. Online gifts come in through Online giving setup (Planning Center API, or a mapped CSV from Subsplash, Tithely, and others).

Yearly contribution statements are for tax time. Open a person's Giving tab or Donations → Reports / Year End Report. Statements include church name, donor name and address, the tax year, tithe and offering totals, and posted gifts only (voids are excluded). Members can prefer emailed statements with the email-reports flag on their profile; otherwise finance prints.

Do not discard a gift because it "looks like" a duplicate. Churchism only auto-skips when the same Gift ID and fund are already stored. Anything else stays for you to Import or Skip.