How are these situations handled in PowerChurch?

[LL-EDENCOB]

1. Our church receives checks in the offering plate for a church related magazine subscription. How can the Financial Secretary, who does the deposits, record these monies so that the checking account balance, etc. is correct, but the "contributor" does not actually get credit for a contribution, since they are receiving goods or services for these amounts?

2. A group in the church is hosting a spaghetti dinner and members of the group are selling tickets for $6.00 ea. Some of the group will not sell all of their allotted tickets, and so will pay for them themselves. Technically, any money they "donate" over and above the actual cost of their own meals, is tax deductible. How does PowerChurch handle this situation, regarding the entering of contributions and/or ticket sales?

[NeilZ]

1. Our church receives checks in the offering plate for a church related magazine subscription. How can the Financial Secretary, who does the deposits, record these monies so that the checking account balance, etc. is correct, but the "contributor" does not actually get credit for a contribution, since they are receiving goods or services for these amounts?

2. A group in the church is hosting a spaghetti dinner and members of the group are selling tickets for $6.00 ea. Some of the group will not sell all of their allotted tickets, and so will pay for them themselves. Technically, any money they "donate" over and above the actual cost of their own meals, is tax deductible. How does PowerChurch handle this situation, regarding the entering of contributions and/or ticket sales?

1. You have a Contribution Fund setup that is outside the normal 'tax deductable' fund number range.

IE: Tax deductable contribution funds:

1. Operating
2. Building Fund
3. Mission
and so on

Non-Deductable funds

100. Subscriptions
101. Bible Study Materials
and so on.

When the Contribution Reports are created, the Financial Secretary just runs them against funds in the range of 1 to 99, that's all the Tax Deductable contribution funds, and that's all that is seen on the end-of-year report.

for question #2, I know I've seen posts about this exact sort of situation on the forum, but I can't seem to get the right search terms together to bring it up, sorry.

However, an idea would be to have two contribution entries for each person. One to the non-deductable fund to cover the meal, and another to a deductable fund to cover all money over the meal cost.